“Comfort Clothing for Fraught Times”: Medrie MacPhee in conversation with Leslie Wayne
Her show at Tibor de Nagy is up through July 28
“Like A Bell Tolling Deeply In The Sea”: Fr. Paul Anel on the Paintings of Paul Jenkins
A Catholic priest offers his personal perspective
The Embedded Window: Laura Karetzky in conversation with Stephen Savage
Her show, at Lora Schlesinger, Santa Monica, is on view through July 15
Neural Networks: Ellen K. Levy on her “Meme Machines” and the thinking behind them
Her exhibition at Mid-Manhattan Library is up thru’ June 28
Empowered: Grace Roselli talks art and motorcycles with Oona Zlamany
Her Naked Bike Project, and Susana Rico’s Viragos, were at Motorgrrl, a bike shop in Greenpoint
Patricia Treib at Bureau
The paintings of Patricia Treib are all the more intriguing for seeming to elevate honesty as a high virtue. Thoughtfully made, they appeal to the senses. Speed is evidently important, and yet they are as slow as they are spontaneous. They are insistently abstract, but the turns of the brush and the tapering of line … Continued
“The Invitational” at the Academy of Arts & Letters
An antidote to the hypertension of the Whitney Biennial is to be found 150 blocks north at the American Academy of Arts & Letters at the “Annual Exhibition of Visual Arts,” on view through April 9. Selected by a committee of academicians, these are, very literally, artists’ artists. But don’t be deceived by the tasteful installation in gracious … Continued
The Drug Administration: Beverly Fishman talks High Modernism and Big Pharma
Her show continues at CUE Foundation through April 5
The Hatcher: James Siena talks meaning and technique with Oona Zlamany
His video interview with the intrepid Bronx Science junior
The Andy Warhol of Architecture: Allan Wexler talks about his art and thinking
Allan Wexler, “Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design” is published by Lars Müller