That there should still be, in 2009, degrees of neglect, blind spots, half-forgotten stars in an artistic movement as heavily studied and with as many ardent followers as Abstract Expressionism may be a surprise. But the artist Jack Tworkov certainly belongs in the last category.
Born in Biala, Poland, in 1900, the artist emigrated Read More
“Focus: Oksar Kokoschka” at the Neue Galerie comes right on time.
The Viennese Expressionist, who died in 1980 at the age of 94, was one of the shattered visionaries of early-20th-century Modernism—a man on the edge. Underappreciated since his death, despite some big-bucks acquisitions of Expressionist masters and periodic museum treatment (a 2002 show Read More
I am only guessing here, but the memorial show for artist Dash Snow on display at Deitch Projects on Grand Street is as likely as not to be remembered as a send-off to the youth craze that has seized the art world this decade.
More legend than man, and dead at 27, Dash Snow’s Read More
“Hurvin Anderson: Peter’s Series 2007-09” at the Studio Museum in Harlem is the British artist’s first one man show at an American museum, and it is terrific.
This is not a surprise. The museum is often canny at hitting a perfect ratio of quality to art-world visibility. This includes the large spirited Read More
James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) is the poison-tipped flower in the hothouse of American art. A publicity crazed poseur fired by self-fictions and “art-for-art’s-sake” ambition, he was naturally a dandy, a serial dater of actresses and artist’s models. But he was also a mama’s boy who fell out with everyone who knew him, except his mother, Read More
As you steady yourself for the Holidays, a supermarket carol on your lips and maybe (but hopefully not) a pink slip in your pocket, plan to visit the Brooklyn Museum. Plan to be cheered, inestimably. As of today, the museum is exhibiting its well-known Female Figurine, a five-inch tall clay lady dating to Mesopotamia in Read More
Art Info posted this item this morning:
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Two museums have made it onto a list drawn up by the U.S. Conference of Mayors of "ready to go" infrastructure projects for president-elect Barack Obama’s proposed economic recovery program, Artnet reports. The mayors’ list, which suggests ventures ranging from new sewers to new schools and Read More
In the Times today, a little bloodletting. Roberta Smith reviews the Marlene Dumas show that opens at MoMA thsi weekend following a stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles, where it originated. Of the South African born artist, whose paintings of pallid faces and bodies in hues of Zombie purple, Read More
Last month the Lower East Side gallery Rivington Arms (4 East 2nd Street) announced it was closing. Was it abrupt? The whole thing was abrupt. The gallery’s owners Melissa Bent and Mirabelle Marden founded the gallery in 2001. At the time, Brent and Marden had only recently graduated from college. They, bold youths, appeared to Read More
Around this time each year, art critics who normally laugh at a "Top Ten" list as an aesthetic criterion are prompted to cite their "Top Ten" favorite exhibitions, events, ephemeral holes in the gallery floor, etc., from the past year. These lists seem to serve two purposes. The first is to shame those of us Read More
