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
Calm, Stately Cruciform Shapes
Excite Respect, Not EnthusiasmThe painter Harvey Quaytman, who died last year at the age of 64 after a long illness, was an unspectacular fixture of the New York art world for close to 40 years. If “unspectacular” seems an odd or callous adjective, especially in light of the artist’s recent passing, Read More
Given the mini-scandal that erupted last month over Michael Kimmelman’s absurd pronouncement in The New York Times Magazine that the Minimalists, Conceptualists and Earth Artists who made their debut in the 1960′s can now be said to constitute the “Greatest Generation” in the history of American art, it’s surprising that so little critical attention has Read More
An Artist’s Explosive Abandon
And His Spirit of Resistance
Willem de Kooning was said to have wondered why the American painter George McNeil (1908-1995), an artist whose work he admired enormously, was never accorded the success he deserved. After having visited ACA Galleries, which is currently hosting a stirring array of McNeil’s bathers, dancers Read More
What do we make of a gallery scene that is renowned less for art than for the spaces in which art is exhibited? Talk of Chelsea will inevitably, and often initially, turn to the physical dimensions of its galleries. These venues are, without question, grand–particularly in a city where space is at an economic and Read More
