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

Soon after reading Michel Pastoureau’s fascinating book, The Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric, I noticed that the inside of the cardboard container that holds Macdonald’s french fries is lined with a pattern of delicate yellow stripes. Utilizing the information in the book, I was able to trace the historical roots of … Continued

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 at Stux Gallery

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

Von Lintel Gallery 555 W 25th Street, New York February 6 – March 22 2003 I would venture to guess that your average person regards photography as the instant capture of reality simply because real places and things are often photographed, and because the resulting image is documentary in nature. But the document is not … Continued

It might surprise us to learn that Adolph Gottlieb considered himself to be a conceptual artist. It is hard for us to imagine any painter as a conceptual artist. Don’t conceptual artists make their statements with pickled sharks and soiled beds? This survey at the Jewish Museum includes early paintings heavily influenced by Milton Avery … Continued

Prince Street Gallery 530 West 25th Street, New York NY 10001 January 7 through 25, 2003 Tues – Sat 11 – 6 PM Donald Beal’s instinct for color is deeply appealing. And instinct it is. Color sense cannot be forced. It has to come of itself, rather as memories do, by natural association and unbidden, … Continued

Isaiah Berlin said that all the problems of our age could be traced back to Romanticism. Anita Brookner heard him lecture on the subject and decided to teach it herself. This took place at the Courtauld Institute where she was an authority on eighteenth century painting. She has written monographs on Greuze, Jacques-Louis David and … Continued

Michael Craig-Martin: Eye of the Storm Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street, through February 15 Anselm Kiefer: Merkaba ran from November 8 to December 14; the catalogue is available from Gagosian Gallery at $80. What extraordinary scene changes an art gallery can witness. Take the Gagosian Gallery. One week it’s Anselm Kiefer, the next Michael … Continued