Contributed by Sharon Butler / Here is a selection of art articles and books I’ve been reading and pondering this week.
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Reading links: NYC art fair cheat sheet, last chance for Rochelle Feinstein�s show at the Bronx Museum, Mira Schor�s lifetime achievement award, Allen Ruppersberg at […]
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Contributed by Sharon Butler / The semester is over and I�m finally catching up on the news. Here are links to some of the stories that caught […]
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This edition of �Quick study� includes good news about how the arts drive economic growth and bad news about MoCA curator Helen Molesworth. Also: Grant Wood�s retrospective at the Whitney, […]
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Stories about painting in the news include: the return of a stolen Degas, why portrait painting is making a comeback, and the Russian intrigue in […]
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According to Hauser & Wirth, abstract painter Jack Whitten has died�at 78. In 2013 NYTimes review, Holland Cotter�praised Whitten for his restless energy: With a […]
Recommended reading
This edition includes links to upcoming Open Studio dates, Clyfford Still’s pastels, the Miami art fair participant lists, Thornton Willis upstate, the gold toilet at […]
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This week I’ve got links to articles about the Venice Biennale, art blogging grants, James Franco, the trilogy of Samuel Beckett plays at NYU, Margie […]
Quick study: Pocket Utopia / Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden merger
At Art Fag City Corinna Kirsch let the cat out of the bag reported that Austin Thomas is closing Pocket Utopia on Henry Street at […]
Weekend report: Casualism's heredity, visit to The Brooklyn Museum,Museum Hours, studio update
At Hyperallergic, Thomas Micchelli still has Casualism on the brain. In his excellent review of “Reinventing Abstraction,” an exhibition of 1980s abstract painting curated […]
Lois Dodd and….On Kawara?
The February art section in The Brooklyn Rail is dedicated exclusively to painting. “Because we believe it is necessary periodically to take the pulse of […]
Disagreeing with Charlie Finch
Jules de Balincourt, “Holy Arab,” 2007, oil on panel, 34x 34� Louis Cameron, “African-American Unity Flag (after Vincent W Paramore),” 2009, acrylic on canvas, 36 […]
Art critic Christopher Knight wins LA Press Club award
LA Times art critic Christopher Knight just won a Los Angeles Press Club award for his review of the 2008 Bernini exhibition at the Getty […]
Art in America gets a makeover
In the NY Times Randy Kennedy reports that the longtime editor of Art in America magazine, Elizabeth C. Baker is stepping down. “Peter M. Brant, […]
