By Mario Naves 2/06/06 12:00am

An Artist Scales the Heights, Blending Vertigo With Calm

Landlines (2005), the first thing you see upon entering the exhibition of paintings by Langdon Quin on display at Kraushaar Galleries Inc., is so strange and good—so aloof yet oddly gripping—that it’s too bad the gallery felt it necessary to display other examples of the artist’s recent work.

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By Hilton Kramer 4/04/05 12:00am

Myron Stout LivedA Solitary Life, Painted in Context

In art, as in life, opposites attract. Which is to say that artists often find inspiration in what they reject: An act of repudiation may serve as the starting point of an original conception. Something like this dialectic of attraction and denial seems to have governed the life and work of the American painter Myron Read More