When a major gallery feels it necessary to stress the role of the eye in experiencing art, it shows how far we’ve come, or (depending on how you look at it) how deep we’ve sunk. Hirschl & Adler Modern tells us in a press release that “[p]ainting, for John Moore, is as much about the Read More
Upon entering The Drawing Impulse in American Art: 1900-1950, an exhibition of works on paper at the Hirschl and Adler Galleries, I was quick to dismiss it as pro forma and predictable, the result not of curatorial necessity but of the gallery’s spring cleaning of its storage racks. Another tasteful array of yesterday’s merchandise: Who Read More
Poèmes d’Intérieur is the title of an exhibition of paintings by the American artist Walter Gay, currently at James Graham & Sons, but there’s only one of the canvases that can be said to embrace the lyrical: Matilda Gay Reclining on a Lit de Repos (Château de Fortoseau) (undated). It is in some ways representative Read More
