Lucian Freud, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, 1996. Oil on canvas, 89 x 47 inches. The Lewis Collection
Wednesday, June 6th, 2018

A Big Umbrella: “All Too Human” at Tate Britain

Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, on view through August 27

Cecily Brown, Madrepora (Shipwreck), 2016. Oil on linen, oil on linen, 97 x 151 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Paul Cooper Gallery
Friday, December 8th, 2017

Sensation to Canvas: Cecily Brown as Antidote to Instagram

The recent show at Paula Cooper was her first with this gallery

Friday, April 8th, 2016

“This is how it’s done”: David Salle Curates Recent Painting

“Nice Weather” is at Skarstedt, uptown and Chelsea, through April 16

Monday, June 8th, 2015

Dangerous Tangles: Cecily Brown, Rosy Keyser and the Undoing of Images

Two painters on view at Maccarone.

Ali Banisadr, We work in shadows, 2017. Oil on linen, 82 x 120 inches. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater
Friday, April 11th, 2014

Brueghel Meets Mughal: Ali Banisadr at Sperone Westwater

“Motherboard” continues at Sperone Westwater through April 19

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

The Dutchmen’s Heir: Jenny Saville at Gagosian

The author is having a Frankenstein moment.  “Continuum” continues on Madison Ave through October 22.

Cecily Brown Thanks, Roody Hooster 2004, oil on linen, 103 x 97 inches
Friday, February 4th, 2005

February 2005: James Gardner, Walter Robinson, and Alexi Worth with moderator David Cohen

Petah Coyne at Galerie Lelong and the Sculpture Centre, Diana Thater at David Zwirner and Zwirner and Wirth, James Hyde at Brent Sikkema and Cecily Brown at Gagosian

Alberto Giacometti, Portrait of David Sylvester, 1960. Oil on canvas, 45 11/16 x 35 1/16 inches. Private Collection
Sunday, July 8th, 2001

The Golden Lion of English Artwriting: David Sylvester, 1924-2001

he described art as well as any writer in English since Ruskin.