Lee Krasner, Gaea, 1966.?Oil on canvas, 69 x 125-1/2 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kay Sage Tanguy Fund?© 2010 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Strong on the Margins: AbEx New York at MoMA

Through April 25, the show draws exclusively from the museum’s collection.

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Seeing the World Differently: Bill Berkson’s lectures on art and poetry

A review of Bill Berkson’s “Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006” from Cuneiform Press

John Currin. The Hobo, 1999. Oil on canvas, 40 x 32 in. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum purchase, Contemporary Collectors Fund. Photographer: Pablo Mason.
Saturday, August 1st, 2009

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.

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

The Armory Show 2009

The Armory Show 2009 opened today. artcritical editor DAVID COHENwas there with his iPhone Armory, First Day Weigh-In What’s the best way to cope with a Recession–if you’re in the artworld? Expand. And how must you behave? With utter nonchalance, of course. Hence the Armory–not content simply to be the behemoth fair of contemporary, primary-market work, now … Continued