The travel website Virtualtourist.com has compiled a list of the world’s ten worst public artworks, and The Observer is pleased—albeit somewhat surprised—to see that New York’s numerous public artworks managed to avoid the list entirely. Read More
Even now that it has been open to the public since 2006, going to Governors Island still feels like trespassing. The road is rocky and uneven, the grass is overgrown and most of the buildings are unoccupied. That’s evidently all part of the island’s charm: 200,000 people have taken Read More
Just under half a century has passed since the young Mark di Suvero (born 1933) made his debut with an exhibition of sculpture that met with instant astonishment and acclaim. Sheer scale would have been enough to cause astonishment-the tallest sculpture was over eight feet high-but size was by no means the principal appeal of Read More
There are artists we hate to love and artists we love to hate. Most artists don’t make a dent; nonentities rarely do. Then there are artists in need of a spanking: painters and sculptors of talent, skill and vision incapable of resisting their worst impulses. Chief on the list for corporal punishment is Andrew Masullo, Read More
If you like the art of Alex Katz, you’ll like the art of Timothy Woodman. If you don’t like Alex Katz, you’ll like Timothy Woodman anyway. Mr. Woodman, whose work is currently the subject of an exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, pursues a streamlined brand of figurative art. Evoking a social milieu defined Read More
The Good, the Bad, the Big On West 24th Street
Mark di Suvero has done it. With his exhibition of sculpture at the West 24th Street location of Gagosian Gallery, he has taken the Chelsea paradigm-you know, “My gallery’s bigger than your gallery”-and brought it down to size. Or rather, Mr. di Suvero has brought Read More
