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Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Edward Hopper, Night Window, 1928. Oil on canvas, 29 x 34 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of John Hay Whitney
Irish-honed literary skills placed at service of cosmopolitan visual culture ...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
A detail of a painting by Carol Rhodes reproduced in the book under review. (Construction Site, 2003)
New monograph published by Skira Editore ...
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
A look at eight years of writing by Bob Nickas. ...

Friday, July 24th, 2020

“Charade is in Order”: Judith Henry’s Beauty Masks

Role play and identity in an artist’s book

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Mystery Man Revealed: The Biography of Friedel Dzubas

Patricia Lewy delves into the Color Field painter’s German childhood

Monday, May 20th, 2019

Performance Art: RoseLee Goldberg’s Call to Arms

Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century from Thames & Hudson

cover of the book under review
Saturday, January 27th, 2018

Wanting to Tell Stories: John Yau’s Wild Children

The occult gives way to novel approaches to what to notice in art.

Cover of the book under review
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

Going His Own Way: A new monograph on Thomas Nozkowski by John Yau

launches a series on contemporary painters, edited by Barry Schwabsky

Bram van der Velde, caption details to follow
Thursday, June 22nd, 2017

“The Impregnable Without”: Samuel Beckett and Painting

Review of “Beckett’s Thing” by David Lloyd

Friday, April 14th, 2017

Narrowing the Field: The Fate of Genius in the Age of the Readymade

A review of Art in the Making by Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson

Sean Scully, 2014. Photo: Courtesy Museum Ludwig
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017

A Natural-Born Storyteller: The Writings of Sean Scully

Inner: The Collected Writings and Selected Interviews of Sean Scully

Cover of the book under review. Courtesy of New Directions Publishing.
Sunday, December 18th, 2016

“Romantic and adventurous language”: Robert Walser’s Critical Essays

A new anthology of translated essays by the critic Robert Walser — with needed insights for the contemporary era.

Saturday, November 19th, 2016

Pedagogy on the Loose: A Book of Lectures by Liam Gillick

Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820