It’s been centuries since frescoes first became paintings and broke out of church walls, but we’re still looking at them indoors. So the question remains: Can art ever be as interesting as real estate? To confront the question directly, you could, as Marianne Boesky has done, lease a townhouse on East 64th Street with a Read More
How surprising is it to learn that John Mullen’s recent paintings, on display at the Howard Scott Gallery, are a meditation on the natural world? Very surprising. Oh, you can ascertain images, some more specific than others, in Mr. Mullen’s abstractions-the forest path in Forcing, the cluster of clouds in 96% Carbon and a tumble Read More
Walking west on 22nd Street, heading toward the Robert Gober show at Matthew Marks Gallery, I caught sight of what looked to be a diptych in the window of the D’Amelio Terras Gallery-two canvases, each depicting a hot-air balloon. D’Amelio Terras wasn’t on my short list of places to visit; it wasn’t even on my Read More
As soon as I got to the dock, I had a feeling I’d made the
wrong choice. All those dealers. All those curators. Some collectors, and a
stray artist or two. I see these people at parties all the time. For this I
came to Venice?
Well, yes, sort of. If you want to Read More
“You’ve got a tiger by the tail,” Richard Melman said with a small laugh. With more than 28 years in the restaurant industry and more than 70 restaurants under his belt, Mr. Melman is one of the restaurant industry’s most influential players. He was calling from the Chicago headquarters of his Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Read More
