The line-up for December 13, expressed as a riddle

Elena Sisto in Conversation with Elizabeth Hazan at the New York Studio School December 6, 2016 at 8 West 8th Street. Full details of this event and more at LECTURES/EVENTS In anticipation of her live discussion at the Studio School with Elizabeth Hazan this evening, consider these words Elena Sisto’s dialogue with another fellow painter, Leslie … Continued

Moderator David Cohen’s guests are Zoë Lescaze, Nancy Princenthal and Christian Viveros-Fauné   Reserve seats now  

One of the striking aspects of the controversy around Kelley Walker’s exhibition at the Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) is how many important issues it raises, including, obviously, the perilous state of race relations in the country; the dilemmas that arise when one person’s freedom of speech is perceived by someone else as hate … Continued

In 2005, Vito Schnabel organized Ron Gorchov’s first solo show in New York in over a decade, focusing then as now on his output in the 1970s. Since then the veteran master of abstraction has seen belated and well-deserved adulation in the forms of exhibitions and critical attention. Reviewing Schnabel’s 2005 pop up in these … Continued

Marilyn Minter at Brooklyn Museum opens Friday, Kerry James Marshall at Met Breuer in second week

(Friday) Jimmy Wright at Fierman Never trust a man who paints nothing but flowers: something else is going on, either in secret, in his past, or perhaps indeed hiding in plain sight in those beautiful damned flowers! With Jimmy Wright one wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be all three. Wright arrived in … Continued

Exceptions to prove the rules in Philadelphia and Brooklyn

“Judith Schaechter: The Life Ecstatic” at Claire Oliver Gallery Be sure to catch Judith Schaechter’s mesmerizingly bizarre show of stained-glass panels, closing Saturday at Claire Oliver. Channeling sources are diverse as the Mexican muralists, mannerism, Pattern & Decoration painting and, of course, despite the resolute secularism of their imagery, gothic church glazing, these intense, gaudy, heartfelt … Continued

from WEEK AT A GLANCE, Saturday, October 1 Jackie Gendel: Artist Talk at Thomas Erben Gallery 526 West 26th Street, 4th Floor, 4PM Back in 2006 Ken Johnson wrote of Jackie Gendel in the New York Times that “With seemingly off-hand painterly verve, smudgy colors and a sweet sense of humor [she] creates smart and … Continued