Warm for Wintour: Alex Katz at the National Portrait Gallery
“September Issue” star Anna Wintour is coaxed into shedding her trademark shades
Seeing Red
Suzan Frecon, currently showing works on paper at David Zwirner, was reviewed at the 2010 Whitney Biennial,
Cry Stall Gaze: A Collaboration with Pat Steir
Poem and artwork unfold as twin scrolls.
The Visitor: Vermeer’s Milkmaid at the Met
September 10 to November 29, 2009
The Roofer’s Son: Watteau at the Met
I don’t know how one can love Watteau without somehow making him one’s contemporary.
Paint Made Flesh at the Phillips Collection
Paint Made Flesh at the Phillips Collection, and other shows this summer, reveal a love affair between a material painters use and the material all of us are.
Alcuni Telefonini: A Collaboration with Francesco Clemente
Features the poems “Bricks,” “Back,” and “Breath”
Multireferential Imagery
This essay is an extract from A Memoir of Creativity: abstract painting, politics and the media, 1956-2008 published by iUniverse, 2009. The book unites art theory, politics, journalism and personal memoir. At its heart lies the author’s theory of abstract art, that instead of being non-representational, it constitutes a “multireferential” form of representation.
Gustave Caillebotte at the Brooklyn Museum
GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM
