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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
The American artist Kara Walker poses questions about slavery’s history and legacy with a major UK commission. ...
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
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Thursday, May 1st, 2003

Frankenthaler: New Paintings

Knoedler & Company 19 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 tel: 212 794-0550 May 1 – July 18, 2003 The cult of the ugly, consisting of people who equate ugliness with artistic merit, would not approve of this exhibit. Helen Frankenthaler is still guiltlessly making beautiful pictures, even though her work has been dismissed, … Continued

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

French Artists in Rome: Ingres to Degas, 1803-1873

Dahesh Museum of Art 580 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, New York (at 57th Street) 212.759.0606 daheshmuseum.org September 3-November 2, 2003 “Academic”: In the contemporary art world, it’s a term so often associated with inflexibility, reaction, and soulless polish that few New York painters would care to wear the label. Since 1995, however, the Dahesh … Continued

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

The Awesome Presence of an Implicate Order

Susan Derges and William Henry Fox Talbot First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Birth of Photography; International Center of Photography, New York, December 13, 2002 to February 16, 2003 Under The Moon: Susan Derges; Paul Kasmin, New York, January 1 to February 8, 2003 Two exhibitions in New York this winter by artists … Continued

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

John Dubrow

Salander-O’Reilly Galleries 20 East 79 Street, New York www.salander.com April 29 – May 31, 2003 Against the backdrop of war, gallery hopping seems a indolent sport. Does the world need another painting? With scalding images everywhere-in newspapers, on television and the internet-Van Gogh’s comment that “there is more to life than making pictures” comes back … Continued

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

Alec Chanda

The Platform, Great Western Studios, London W9, February 8 to 22, 2003 Alec Chanda studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1979 to 1983. He won second prize in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 1992. Twenty years after he left art school, his first one-artist exhibition took place in a … Continued

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

Inaki Lazkoz

Art Link New York City, April 14-30, 2003 Around the gallery walls at Art Link in New York’s garment district stand vivid and yet seemingly disconnected images of animals, buildings, keys, and chairs painted against flat neutral tones. The background serves here and there as a placeless terra firma, or as ether or ambient space. … Continued

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

Pat Lipsky

Elizabeth Harris Gallery 529 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 March 13 to April 12, 2003 Tues.-Sat. 11- 6PM L.I.C.K. at LTD Fine Art 46-44 11th Street Long Island City, NY 11101 March 21 to April 17, 2003 Wed.-Sun. 12-6PM Pat Lipsky’s two current New York exhibitions remind us that the art of painting … Continued

Saturday, March 1st, 2003

Rudy Burckhardt

Rudy Burckhardt: New York Photographs Curated by Vincent Katz Tibor de Nagy Gallery May 1 – June 6, 2003 Rudy Burckhardt’s Maine: An Exhibition of Photographs, Paintings, and Films Curated by Vincent Katz New York Studio School Gallery May 8 – June 21, 2003 Rudy Burckhardt’s career dates from 1935 to 1999. Working in the … Continued

Heide Trepanier, Fatalist, 2005. Acrylic enamel on board, 42 x 42 inches. Courtesy Stux Gallery.
Saturday, March 1st, 2003

Heide Trepanier

Heide Trepanier at Stux Gallery

Saturday, March 1st, 2003

Thomas Nozkowski Drawings

January 23 to March 1, 2003 New York Studio School 8 West 8 Street, New York NY 10011 The key drawings in Thomas Nozkowski’s exhibition were hung just inside the entrance to the gallery. S68, dated 1984, is a semi-abstract pictogram made from short brushstrokes. The image is centered on a large empty field of … Continued