James Rosenquist announced that he will cancel his September show at Brandeis University’s beleaguered Rose Art Museum. The artist told the Boston Globe late last week that his decision had nothing to do with the controversy surrounding the museum, but rather a 2009 fire that destroyed much of his home and studio Read More
Jim Cohan opened his high-end New York gallery of contemporary art, the James Cohan Gallery, at a bad time, in the wrong part of town, with a partner who would soon bail out. In late 1999, just as our infatuation with play money was peaking and art dealers were rushing into the huge lower-rent spaces Read More
Nowadays I’m loath to give the Whitney Museum of American Art credit for anything; few museums have done as much to debase the cause of art. But the place does deserve credit for bringing to New York City Rosie Lee Tompkins, a quiltmaker who lives and works in California. Presumably because she was included in Read More
The same thing that draws us to the still-life paintings of Richard Baker makes us worry about their staying power: facility. Mr. Baker, whose canvases are on display at the Joan T. Washburn Gallery, handles oil paint in a way that will tug at anyone who loves the properties peculiar to the medium-its flexibility and Read More
