Fendrich’s Jewel-Like Cosmos Comes in All Shapes and Sizes

Titles can influence the way we experience a painting or sculpture, particularly one that’s abstract. Because it inherently circumvents recognizable imagery, abstraction lends itself less—or at least differently—to words than representational art.

There’s a marked change in how we look at a Mondrian painting if it’s titled Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue or Trafalgar Read More

Park Avenue Cubists Gathered Downtown In Delightful Show

The exhibition that Debra Bricker Balken has16 organized at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery in Washington Square is calle d The Park Avenue Cubists: Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw . Never mind if the names of the four American painters represented in this delightful exhibition-A.E. Gallatin, George L.K. Morris, Suzy Frelinghuysen and Charles G. Read More