The artist and critic Fairfield Porter once suggested that painters have an easier time of it than sculptors. He contended in a 1960 essay that it “requires much more imagination to be a sculptor than to be a painter” and that “a sculptor’s activity is consequently more serious.”
Porter fails to back up this blunt Read More
What a lovely show Cynthia Nadelman has curated for the June Kelly Gallery. In fact, it’s too bad According with Nadelman: Contemporary Affinities is appearing during the sluggish summer months. It honors what the rest of the gallery season has kept itself busy denouncing: the inspiring reach of tradition. Mounted to coincide with the Elie Read More
A Collection of Oddities:
Nadelman’s Quirky Kin
What a lovely show Cynthia Nadelman has curated for the June Kelly Gallery. In fact, it’s too bad According with Nadelman: Contemporary Affinities is appearing during the sluggish summer months. It honors what the rest of the gallery season has kept itself busy denouncing: the inspiring reach Read More
It’s both amazing and amusing to be recalled to a time-1917 or thereabouts-when Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), whose work is the subject of a marvelous retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was denounced as “outrageous,” “unwholesome,” “gruesome,” even “degenerate,” for exhibiting sculpture that depicted adult men and women in modern dress. Proper people-the very Read More
Certain figures in the history of modern art seem destined to be “rediscovered” by every generation. They are too important to be entirely forgotten, but they may be too elusive to make an unbroken claim on our attention. Their work is too various or too eccentric and their personalities too alien to be easily classified Read More
“What’s Happening at the Whitney Museum” is the title of this month’s program brochure of special events to mark the opening of the first galleries ever to be specifically reserved for the museum’s permanent collection. Mercifully, the fifth-floor galleries designed by Richard Gluckman for this purpose are not only very nice in themselves, but they Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
