Jannis Kounellis: Hard Materials, Transcendent Light
New monograph by Marc Scheps from Prestel
Redeemed from Aesthetic Limbo: Aimée Price Brown on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Her long-awaited catalogue raisonné is published by Yale.
Seeing the World Differently: Bill Berkson’s lectures on art and poetry
A review of Bill Berkson’s “Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006” from Cuneiform Press
Purloined Destiny: Julian Schnabel’s Polaroids
Julian Schnabel: Polaroids by Petra Giloy-Hirtz is published by Prestel.
Beta Get Your Act Together, PBS: A critical look at their new arts website
No bravos for this lackluster new site, even if the programs trump Bravo’s “Work of Art”
Walls, ceilings and flaws: a book about murals published as a website
The Mural in America by Francis V. Connor, Ph. D. at muralinamerica.com
The Arts Died with Dada: Roy Harris and the Great Debate About Art
In depth review of the semiotician’s pointed pamphlet on the end of art criticism
Painting Abstraction by Bob Nickas
In the 1980s, when painting was commonly said to be dead, many group shows were devoted to abstraction.
Seeing Out Louder: Art Criticism 2003-2009 by Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Book Review
Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Between Categories by Brenda Moore-McCann
“His ambition,” Moore-McCann concludes, “is nothing less than a transformation of thinking, looking beyond material objects to underlying systems of belief”
