In April, Village Voice art critic R.C. Baker has a show at Zone:Contemporary Art (formerly Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts) that combines art, fiction, […]
Solo Shows
NY Times Art in Review: Leon Kossoff and Xylor Jane
“Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years, 1957-1967, “Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through March 28. Roberta Smith reports: This show is an informative treat. […]
Joan Snyder: Fleshy physicality and broken-bones impact
In the LA Times art blog David Pagel reports that the six paintings and four prints in Snyder�s L.A. solo debut at SolwayJones Gallery are […]
Serban Savu: Ruins of a recent future
David Nolan features work by Serban Savu this month. Savu, part of a group of artists from Cluj, schooled in the tradition of Social Realism, […]
Charlie Finch on Kathleen Gilje’s 96 breasts
“I stopped by Francis Naumann’s 57th Street gallery last week to watch Kathleen Gilje install her altered series of 48 female portraits by John Singer […]
Shelly Adler’s romantic loneliness in Toronto
After spending the afternoon hosting a birthday party for a ten-year-old in a freezing ice rink, Canadian art seems appropriate, so here’s a piece about […]
NY Times Art in Review: Robert Mangold
“Robert Mangold: Drawings and Works on Paper 1965-2008,” Pace, Wildenstein, New York, NY. Through April 4. Holland Cotter reports: “Taken in isolation, none of these […]
Last chance: Peter Doig
In The Brooklyn Rail, Greg Lindquist looks at Peter Doig’s new large-scale paintings, which are up until tomorrow at Gavin Brown and Michael Werner. “While […]
Calling all Robert Mangold fans
Today the Times has a feature called “Modern Art Explained” in which they ask people to send an email note responding to an image of […]
Tomory Dodge turns viscous brushwork into levitating clutter
Christopher Miles reports in the LA Weekly (didn’t we all have enough of New York last week?) that Tomory Dodge paints with a kind of […]
Jon Lutz and Jim Lee talk in the studio
Jim Lee, who has a show at Freight + Volume this month, talks to Jon Lutz at The Old Gold. “I�m not sure if it�s […]
Charlie Finch on Yusavage and Rothenberg: The not-so-innocent girl child vs. the older woman who has actually lived
At artnet Charlie Finch compares new work by Lisa Yuskavage and Susan Rothenberg. “Echoing Inka Essenhigh‘s controversial use of unicorns and other fantasias in her […]
NY Times Art in Review: Art Green and Josh Smith
“Josh Smith: Currents,” Luhring Augustine, New York, NY. Through March 14. (Note: The paintings look better as JPEGs than they do in the gallery.) Ken […]
Clara Fialho loves love
In the Philadelphia Inquirer Edith Newhall reports that Queens-based Clara Fialho is the latest Brazilian artist to bring vivid color back to Brazilian painting in […]
Another Yuskavage show in NYC
A few years ago in the NY Times, Ken Johnson wrote that Lisa Yuskavage’s paintings were sly, soft-porn fantasies of pneumatic women in hazes of […]
