Walking west on 22nd Street the other week, I glanced in the window of the Max Protetch Gallery, noticed gallery personnel hanging paintings by David Reed and experienced something unexpected: anticipation.
I stopped and craned my neck, puzzled. Having kept Mr. Reed’s art at arm’s length in the past, I couldn’t believe I was Read More
If you navigate the art scene by buzz alone, you’ll wind up in predictable places. Ask an insider what there is to see at the galleries right now, and you’re sure to be pointed in the direction of the Richard Serra show at the Chelsea branch of Gagosian Gallery. Little wonder: When Mr. Serra rolls Read More
A Sensation (Minus the Buzz):
The Intimate, Acutely Observed
If you navigate the art scene by buzz alone, you’ll wind up in predictable places. Ask an insider what there is to see at the galleries right now, and you’re sure to be pointed in the direction of the Richard Serra show at the Chelsea Read More
He is “the sort of genius that
communities usually massacre and then afterward revere,” wrote the great
American art critic Henry McBride of the
fine American painter Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), whose watercolors and
drawings are the subject of an exhibition at Kennedy Galleries. McBride’s
statement has to it a mock-dramatic flourish that is typical Read More
