FRIEZE WEEK PICK OF THE DAY: David Humphrey at Fredericks & Freiser at Frieze
David Humphrey’s Fall 2014 show at Fredericks & Freiser, who are affording him a solo spot on their Frieze stand this year, was titled “Work and Play”. For anyone who has ever wondered why painters work and musicians play, this was a great title for Humphrey, a practitioner of both arts. “Under The Table” is an essay in overlapping and interweaving…
Dennis Kardon at Valentine
The painter and writer inherits and expands a history of renegade traditions.
Nora Griffin at Louis B. James
The painter’s solo at Louis B. James recently concluded.
“Art Week” is Upon Us
Our subtitle: “Online magazine of art and ideas”. Online means immediate, here and now. Art and ideas implies a long view. “Art Week” (as Armory Week is sometimes dubbed) is a misnomer for those who live art 52 weeks a year-but no less exhilarating for that. True to (split) form, we are up to the minute with photos of last…
ARMORY WEEK PICK OF THE DAY: Marina Adams and Lizzie Scott at Salon Zürcher
On view at Galerie Gris
The Classics: “New” from Phaidon, Early Titles on the Old Masters
In conversation with Diane Fortenberry, Senior Editor at Phaidon Press
Ronnie Landfield at STUX + HALLER
The influential painter’s retrospective is on view through the 20th.
The Review Panel Philadelphia, February 17
theartblog once described The Review Panel Philadelphia as ““The highlight of formal art criticism in Philadelphia”. So if you find yourself in the City of Brotherly Love Wednesday evening, be sure to join the discussion at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where my guests are Erick Miller, Judith Schaechter and Barry Schwabsky. The shows up for discussion are by Sarah Gamble and…
Jonathan Lasker at Cheim & Read
Lasker is surely one of the most ambivalence-inducing abstract painters to have emerged from the postmodern storm clouds of the 1980s
