A 1979 BMW M1 race car that was designed by New York-based painter Frank Stella is being sent to the Bonhams auction block this week in Pebble Beach, Calif., where it is estimated to sell for between $450,000 and $600,000. Read More
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped canvases are not discreetly installed in the usual MoMA manner Read More
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped canvases are not discreetly installed in the usual MoMA manner Read More
“Sublime” isn’t an adjective that a critic should bandy about promiscuously. Used appropriately, it can describe the paintings of Fra Angelico and Vermeer, but the word is pretty much depleted thereafter. Having said that, there it is, “sublime,” sitting atop the page of notes I took while standing in the Betty Cuningham Gallery looking at Read More
I conned my 9-year old son into coming out with me to the Brooklyn Museum of Art on the pretext of visiting Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains, and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection , an exhibition of paintings created for the covers of mystery, science-fiction and adventure magazines published earlier in the last century. My Read More
Frank Stella, whose highly rebarbative Recent Work exhibition is currently on view in a big, drafty, appropriately grungy garage adjoining the Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea, was born in 1936. He thus now qualifies as a senior citizen, but as an artist he is still plugging away at the role of enfant terrible . This Read More
MoMA Enemy No. 1: STELLA!
As far as gratuitous millennium museum shows go, the Museum of Modern Art’s self-involved MoMA2000 got its fair share of panning in the press when it opened in the fall of 1999. The show was a way to air out the collection for the public–and, some say, to cure curator Read More
This week I have the melancholy task of returning once again to the harlequinade called MoMA 2000 at the Museum of Modern Art. On my last visit to this ill-conceived museological entertainment, the full complement of the 24 separate exhibitions that are brought together under the rubric of Making Choices had not yet been completed. Read More
If there is one art gallery that has controlled most of the heavy-hitting contemporary artists in recent history, it is Leo Castelli. The gallery has represented Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Liechtenstein, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. But earlier this year, Castelli moved to East 79th Street, effectively losing its powerbase. Many of its remaining Read More
It was William Rubin, then chairman of the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, who, on the occasion of Frank Stella’s second exhibition at the museum, invoked the names of Dante, Shakespeare and Picasso as artists with whom it was thought appropriate to compare the work of Mr. Stella. But Read More
