A Painter’s Enviable Touch— And His Napoleon Complex

David Fertig is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New Jersey, but his art is patently at odds with the here and now. His paintings, which are currently on display at James Graham & Sons, keep getting stranger. His fascinations are so singular that he could almost be mistaken for an outsider artist. Read More

A Painter’s Enviable Touch- And His Napoleon Complex

David Fertig is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New Jersey, but his art is patently at odds with the here and now. His paintings, which are currently on display at James Graham & Sons, keep getting stranger. His fascinations are so singular that he could almost be mistaken for an outsider artist. Read More

Currently Hanging

The Dead Art of Painting-Rejected, Embraced to the End

There’s a lot to distrust about the paintings of Albert Oehlen, not least their venue. With rare exceptions-the photographs of Joel Sternfeld, say-Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine has dedicated itself to the glitzy verities of corporate nihilism and a worldview that’s loathe to admit the complexities of art Read More

From Eilshemius Show, Auguring of Good Season

What can we look forward to–or, for that matter, not look forward to–in the 2001-2 art-exhibition season? The good news is that the season starts off with a big Louis Eilshemius exhibition at the National Academy of Design (Sept. 19 to Dec. 30) and a major retrospective devoted to Alberto Giacometti at the Museum of Read More