To state that Lois Dodd’s landscape paintings, now at the Fischbach Gallery, reconcile realism and abstraction is to reiterate an artistic platitude. Any painter–or, it should be said, any painter of substance–working from observed phenomena takes into account the formal peculiarities of the medium when shaping a picture. Yet the line Ms. Dodd tiptoes between Read More
What do we make of a gallery scene that is renowned less for art than for the spaces in which art is exhibited? Talk of Chelsea will inevitably, and often initially, turn to the physical dimensions of its galleries. These venues are, without question, grand–particularly in a city where space is at an economic and Read More
One of the casualties of culture, brought about by the ascendance of the Dadaist esthetic, is the devaluation of artistic tradition. For many contemporary artists, tradition is not a vital fund of inspiration and a continuum with which to be engaged. It is, instead, a grab bag of stylistic markers to be exploited at will. Read More
It is good to see the canvases of Morris Louis (1912-1962) at a time when contemporary abstract painting is being exhibited at the galleries in some abundance. With the show of his work at Ameringer-Howard Fine Art, we are reminded that Louis is, in many ways, a key figure in terms of how abstract art Read More
Three years after she abandoned SoHo for Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, gallery owner Mary Boone is negotiating a lease for a Chelsea outpost. She has no choice.
“The artists [I represent] are midcareer,” said Ms. Boone, during a quiet moment in her uptown gallery at 745 Fifth Avenue, where she moved from SoHo in Read More
On Oct. 8, virtually the entire Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will be given over to 200 paintings and drawings by 47-year-old,Naples-bornFrancesco Clemente for a retrospective that museum curators have been preparing for several years. Mr. Clemente’s sensual work has been a mainstay of the neo-Mannerist revival of interest in rich Renaissance-style art. The artist, who Read More
Final plans are still being worked out for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s first National Design Triennial, a showcase of trends in design with an emphasis on younger talent to be held every three years, starting in March 2000. According to sources close to the museum, however, Gabellini Associateshasbeen tapped to design the show itself, which will Read More
In recent years, Deitch Project, a gallery in SoHo, has made a specialty of exhibiting the we-are-the-world style of art that’s become known as “globalism.” The gallery has shown artists from 20 different nations, bragged gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch, ranging from Y.Z. Kami, an Iranian, to Shahzia Sikander, a Muslim from Pakistan, to Mariko Mori, Read More
When Larry Gagosian first came to New York from Los Angeles in 1986, he opened a small gallery on West 23rd Street between 10th and 11th avenues. The silver-haired gallerist was probably the only dealer in Chelsea at the time. In 1989, enriched by sales to S.I. Newhouse Jr., Leonard Lauder and other big collectors, Read More
Each year for the past 17 years, “Between the Bridges,” an outdoor sculpture exhibition, has been held in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, a tiny little piece of windswept real estate between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges overlooking New York Harbor and lower Manhattan. Lorraine Walsh and Christopher Drago, curators for this year’s Read More
