Nude Models Amuse New Yorker Writer at Chic Chelsea Pad

“It’s terribly … terrific,” said Pop Art icon James Rosenquist when asked how he was enjoying the party celebrating his new memoir, Painting Below Zero. “What do you think?”

The event was rather Factory-like, also held on Monday, Nov. 16, at the private Chelsea residence of Bad Boys II actress Alhia Chacoff Read More

Give a Painter His Due: Inness Deserves Top Honors

What standing does the landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) have in the history of American art? As a student, I remember Inness occupying a marginal nook, his place obscured by the homegrown transcendentalism of the Hudson River School and by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the holy trinity of 19th-century American painting. Read More

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Inness Deserves Top Honorspainter George Inness (1825-1894) have in the history of American art? As a student, I remember Inness occupying a marginal nook, his place obscured by the homegrown transcendentalism of the Hudson River School and by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Read More

Schnabel in Reruns; Geldzahler Revisits the Met

It’s been more than 20 years since, inspired by a door in Barcelona, Julian Schnabel smashed a set of crockery and glued the pieces to a canvas, creating a group of paintings that became as integral to the 1980′s as Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings were to the 1950′s. From April 22 to June 5, a Read More