Earlier this month, the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton raised $675,000 at its glitzy annual fund-raising gala—the last to take place in its present building. Meanwhile, a few miles away, in Water Mill, the skeleton of the Parrish’s new home, an elegant, barnlike building designed by Swiss starchitects Herzog & de Meuron that’s as long Read More
Any self-respecting art lover in New York is sure to visit the Met, but may overlook the M.T.A. “There are many people throughout the world who would be amazed; curators who take the subway are blown away,” said Sandra Bloodworth, who has directed the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Arts for Transit program since 1996, adding murals Read More
“Slow and seasoned”: That’s how a press release describes the paintings of Joanne Freeman on exhibition at Lohin Geduld Gallery. It’s prudent to be wary of the promotional verbiage accompanying visual art. More often than not, words overstate the merits of the work or, as is typical in our post-Conceptualist age, attempt to establish a Read More
Abstract painters like to bitch and moan about their lot in life. Abstract art, they complain, was once the standard-bearer of high culture, but now it’s just another item on display in the dizzying contemporary art bazaar. Still, I’m not so sure figurative painters don’t have a harder time of it. Abstraction, largely because it Read More
The exhibition called Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, organized by Marc Glimcher for the PaceWildenstein Galleries, has come and gone, but it has left in its wake an encyclopedic catalog that’s likely to remain a standard work of reference for a long time. In the near term, however, it’s certain to provoke controversy Read More
Frantic Friday Night,
Table-Tussling at Bivio
It’s a good thing I visit a restaurant more than once before writing a review. Bivio is a new Italian trattoria located in the far West Village (near the meatpacking district). The proprietors are Daniel Emerman and Alessandro Prosperi, who also own Bottino, the popular artists’ hangout in Read More
About the Sol LeWitt retrospective, which was organized by
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and has now come to the Whitney Museum
of American Art, the first thing to consider is the artist’s credo. For Mr.
LeWitt has never been shy about making his intentions explicit. The
bibliography of his writings and publications Read More
Certain exhibitions require repeated visits if we hope to attain a serious understanding not only of their constituent parts but of the ideas and intentions that govern their organization and execution. The Modern Starts exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art has been especially challenging in this respect. It has been open to the public Read More
