Recapturing the Concentrated Moment
Recounting a recent trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Martin Mugar reconsiders blue chip paintings including works by Susan Rothenberg, Al Held, Terry Winters, and Anselm Kiefer. Mugar writes: "I think as long as people have a conscience and a sense of what lies underneath them, whether it is science or […]
Light & Liberty: Le Grand Atelier du Midi
Jackie Wullschlager reviews two concurrent exhibitions: Le Grand Atelier du Midi: de Van Gogh à Bonnard at Palais Longchamp, Marseille and De Cézanne à Matisse at Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, on view through October 13, 2013. Wullschlager writes: "These are modernism’s canonical stories but they have never been more comprehensively amplified, nor more ideally sited, than […]
Jason Middlebrook: Line That Divides Us
Brian Fee reviews the exhibition Jason Middlebrook: The Line That Divides Us at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, on view through August 10, 2013. Fee writes: "Jason Middlebrook isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel by painting directly onto internally cut trunks from the local mill. But in relocating from Williamsburg to Columbia County in upstate New […]
Geneviève Asse @ the Centre Pompidou
Hyperallergic
John Yau blogs about the exhibition Geneviève Asse: Paintings at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on view through September 9, 2013. Yau writes that “Although Asse works in the domain of monochrome painting and geometric abstraction, she is the opposite of such objective-minded artists as Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt. For all of her restraint and […]
XXXL Painting
Andrea Alessi reviews the exhibition XXXL Painting: Klaas Kloosterboer, Chris Martin, Jim Shaw at Submarine Wharf, Rotterdam, Netherlands, on view through September 29, 2013. Alessi writes: "Bigger isn’t better, just different. The works can be confrontational and immersive – you can literally step into a couple of them. There is no single vantage point, no […]
Katharina Grosse: In Conversation
Casey Stranahan talks to painter Katharina Grosse on the occasion of the exhibition Katharina Grosse: Wunderblock at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, on view through September 1, 2013. In the interview introduction, Stranahan describes experiencing Grosse's work: "Walking down the stairs towards the Nasher’s small downstairs gallery, it was very clear that Grosse’s installation is […]
Braque at the Phillips Collection
Braque’s “second career” may, in retrospect, constitute his greater legacy.
Glenn Goldberg: Interview
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Glenn Goldberg on the occasion of the exhibition Glenn Goldberg: Other Places at Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, on view through August 16, 2013. Asked about references to the "devotional" in his paintings, Goldberg replies: "That is one of the greatest things in life: to be devoted to someone or something. […]
Mexico: Revolution in Painting & Art
On the occasion of the exhibition Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940 – on view at the Royal Academy, London through September 29, 2013 -Alan Riding writes about the influence of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) on painting and art both within and outside of Mexico. Riding notes that: "For many Americans and northern Europeans … […]
Hokusai’s Waterfalls
Blog post about Hokusai's series of waterfall prints, currently on view in the exhibition Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA, through July 21, 2013. "Hokusai portrayed each waterfall differently, emphasizing the unique features of each site. He was the first Japanese woodblock print artist to focus on water as a design, and here we see the genius […]
Reality’s Bite
Cinqué Hicks reviews the exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis at the High Museum, Atlanta, on view through September 29, 2013. Hicks writes that " these Golden Age painters emerging a century or two later, unlocked the key to realistically rendering the natural world. Willem Heda’s Still Life with a […]
Christopher Wood at Kettle’s Yard
Richard Moss previews an exhibition of works by Christopher Wood at Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, on view through September 1, 2013. Moss writes: "Wood’s style was mature and lyrical and managed to subtly reference the innovations of Paris whilst reflecting some of the key landscape innovations taking root in his native country." Moss continues […]
Niall Sheerin: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Niall Sheerin. Sheerin explains: "Recently I had a nice experience of finding a lovely weather/sea-beaten piece of wood which I felt I could do something with. After working on it fairly quickly and loosely I was happy with the outcome as an authentic representation of where it was found. So now […]
Beverly McIver @ Betty Cuningham
Ashley Temple reviews an exhibition of paintings by Beverly McIver at Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, on view through August 9, 2013. Temple writes that the show focuses on "McIver’s self-portraits and paintings of her close friends and family. The show, as a whole, delineates the artist’s provocation with racial stereotypes and gender binaries. As […]
Raphael Rubinstein on NY Painting in the 80s
Joan Waltemath talks with Raphael Rubinstein about the exhibition Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, a show he curated at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through August 30, 2013. Rubinstein comments: "One of the things that inspired my show was David Reed’s notion that there’s a 'street history' of painting that […]
Brooke Moyse: In Process
Paul Behnke's photo-blog series features a look at the studio process of painter Brooke Moyse. Behnke writes: "While her work could be cited as an example of Bushwick's recent New Casualist esthetic, the formal qualities of Moyse's painting have been evolving steadily, into a studied offhandedness, for some years. The quick appearance of her paint […]
Brenda Goodman: Studio Visit
Lisa Pressman photo blogs a visit the studio of painter Brenda Goodman. In 2012 interview Goodman remarked: "If my paintings didn't tap that mysterious place of a deep knowing I would feel less successful as an artist because then they would just speak to me and not those who view them. For me the most […]
Peter Acheson: Studio Visit
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Peter Acheson. Speaking about the influence of the rural landscape around his studio on his work, Acheson comments: "Nature doesn't put the details in, the details are there. They come out – at any scale… Then you step back and it's all rhthymically, organically whole… […]
Tom Cross: Early Paintings
Sam Cornish blogs about the exhibition Tom Cross: Early Paintings at Kestle Barton, on view through August 26, 2013. Cornish writes that "Cross’s landscapes are well known locally, particularly his depictions of the Helford River; the current display shows another side of his work, influenced by large scale, mid-century American painting and by his contacts […]