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Friday, September 11th, 2015
Gabriel A. Maher, DE___SIGN (video), 2014. Courtesy of the artist
an exhibition at the intersections of craft, gender and modernism ...
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
The proceedings of a recent symposium on af Klint’s work have been compiled into a new book. ...
Wednesday, August 12th, 2015
Andrew Forge, Willow, 1999. Oil on canvas, 42 x 44 inches. Courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery
Parallel qualities in painter and composer sustain a connection between the two ...

Hope Gangloff, The Trouble with Paradise, 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 64 x 81 inches. Collection of Cynthia and Stuart Smith
Thursday, May 5th, 2011

The Aldrich at a Crossroads

Portraiture shows at the Aldrich occasion a portrait of the institution itself

Lynne Woods Turner, Untitled (9072), 2010. Oil on linen over panel, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Danese
Saturday, April 16th, 2011

The Canon is Under Fire: What Press Releases Tell You, and What They Don’t

The abundance of self-anointed anti-establishment shows reminds us that nothing in the art world is sacred

Robert Rauschenberg, Short Circuit (Combine Painting), 1955. Oil, fabric and paper on wood supports and cabinet with two hinged doors containing a painting by Susan Weil and a reproduction of a Jasper Johns Flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant, 40-3/4 x 37-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Too absorbed by the future to bother about the past: Robert Rauschenberg

If Johns is our Mallarmé, Rauschenberg is our Walt Whitman.

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

“Like Renoir, he doesn’t only paint with his brush”: Raoul Middleman’s Baltimore Babes

Exhibition at Kouros Gallery runs through April 2.

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Arthur Danto: Artist

Musings on the youthful drawing and printmaking activities of an august philosopher and critic.

psychodrama
Friday, December 24th, 2010

Psychodrama: Modern Art As Group Therapy

The introduction to his latest book with essays on Karel Appel, Louise Bourgeois, Lucian Freud, Helmut Newton and others

Sandi Slone, The Buxom Eye, 2009. Oil, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 66 inches. Courtesy of the Artist
Friday, October 22nd, 2010

The Buxom Eye of Sandi Slone

Essay from the artist’s exhibition at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, October 7 to 30, 2010

Charles Burchfield, An April Mood, 1946–1955, Watercolor and charcoal on joined paper, 40 × 54 inches, Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, Purchase, with partial funds from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
Friday, September 3rd, 2010

A current of his own: Charles Burchfield at the Whitney

Heatwaves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield is at the Whitney until October 17

Rug by James Siena, Courtesy of BravinLee Programs
Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Where contemporary art can get knotted: Kathmandu

BravinLee Programs presents hand-knotted rugs by Nina Bovasso, Peter Halley, James Siena, and James Welling

Michael Craig-Martin, An Oak Tree, 1973. Glass, water, shelf and printed text, dimensions vary. Private Collection
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

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