Caravaggio e caravaggeschi
Daniel B. Gallagher reviews Caravaggio e caravaggeschi a Firenze, at both the Galleria Palatina at the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi in Florence. The exhibition closes January 9th. Caravaggio e caravaggeschi examines the premise "that Caravaggio’s influence made a subtle incursion into Florentine painting despite efforts to resist it, and, perhaps most audaciously, that this […]
Baja Cave Paintings
Barry Rosof's photographs and report on prehistoric cave paintings in San Francisco de la Sierra, a mountain range in Baja. "Prehistoric paintings are found all over Baja and at least as far north as San Diego county. The paintings in central Baja are particularly noteworthy for their larger than life size, number per site and […]
Chaos and Classicism
This is the last weekend to see Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936, at the Guggenheim. "Traveling up the Guggenheim’s ramp, the exhibition lays bare the changing sentiment of the period—from a reliance on the order and beauty of Classicism after the horrors of the first world war to fascism’s adoption […]
Callum Innes, Ricardo Mazal, Huma Bhabha
Vincent Romaniello gives a glimpse of three New York shows Callum Innes, Colm Tóibín, water colour at Sean Kelly, Ricardo Mazal at Sundaram Tagore, and Huma Bhabha at Peter Blum.
Imi Knoebel: Selected Works
Video of paintings by German artist Imi Knoebel at von Bartha Garage in Basel. The exhibition runs through February 19, 2011.
Thornton Dial: Hard Truths
A "trailer" for an exhibition… Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial at the Indianapolis Art Musuem on view February 25-May 15, 2011. Hard Truths "presents a major survey of Dial's work, an epic gathering of over fifty large-scale paintings, sculptures, and wall assemblages that address the most compelling issues of our time."
The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer
Michael Miller reviews The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (through March 13, 2011). He writes that the exhibition "presents the artist and his work partly in the context of his time and place and partly as artefacts present-day viewers respond to literally, without much explanation, as images […]
Michael Fried & Caravaggio
Maureen Mullarkey reviews Michael Fried's new book The Moment of Caravaggio. Mullarkey excoriates both Fried's content and writing style contending that "text validates Irwin Panofsky’s contention, stated in that marvelous essay “Iconography and Iconography: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art, that “synthetic intuition” may be better developed in a talented layman than in […]
Nancy Spero: Notes in Time
An impressive on-line recreation of Nancy Spero's mixed-media work Notes in Time. "The cyclic structure and complex nonnarrative flow of Nancy Spero’s Notes in Time make it the artist’s most ambitious work. Spero, who died last year at 83, recalled that creating it “was like working on a book, a solitary activity. I had to […]
A Closer Look at Titian’s “Diana and Callisto”
"David Brenneman, Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Francis B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, talks about Titian's 'Diana and Callisto,' one of the paintings featured in the current exhibition at the High Museum, 'Titian & The Golden Age of Venetian Painting.' " The video has great zoom ins and close up views of […]
Willem de Kooning “Figure & Light”
Art Observed review and installation photos of Willem de Kooning Figure & Light at L&M Arts on view through January 15, 2011. "The exhibition is divided into two galleries with the first displaying relatively small-scale works from de Kooning‘s iconic Women series. The second room showcases the artist’s later abstract paintings realized between 1980 and […]
Painters’ Table Top Posts of 2010
Started with the idea that there is a magazine about painting created everyday on the web, we are thrilled to say this has proved to be true. It is inspiring to see so many artists and critics writing daily about painting. In a month and a half Painters’ Table has been able to send more […]
Studio Visits with Wolf Kahn
A round up of 2010 posts about painter Wolf Kahn from around the web including the two part video A Studio Visit with Wolf Kahn from New Art TV.
Robert Ryman at the Phillips
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford posts a 2010 video interview with Robert Ryman at the Phillips Collection. Ryman discusses his works on view at the museum noting: "I don't abstract from anything… I am involved with real space… real light, and real surface."
R.H. Quaytman at SFMOMA
A Best of 2010 pick, a review of R.H. Quaytman: New Work at SFMOMA. Marilyn Goh writes: "Quaytman works primarily as a painter, but her installations are site-based and could in many ways be considered sculpture. Images are meant to “echo” – to complement and conflict with each other, and with the architecture of the […]
Fair Enough: Color & Geometry
Part 23 of Joanne Mattera's coverage of the Miami Art Fairs focuses on geometric abstraction, primarily painting. The post includes great images of work by artists including: Sven Lukin, Jo Baer, John McCracken, Ellsworth Kelly, Imi Knoebel, Stanley Whitney, and Sherrie Levine and others…
Mark Bradford: Silent Strength
Deborah Barlow looks at Mark Bradford's exhibition at the ICA in Boston. Bradford's work can be seen through "many lenses—political, sociological, race-based, gender, abstraction, counter trends, arte povera, inner city aesthetics… maybe this is a show that needs several viewings to appreciate the density of meaning and form that Bradford is pursuing."
Painting Today
Dougal McKenzie reviews Painting Today, recently released in a 2nd edition. "It's certainly hard to resist, and with over 280 painters featured and almost 500 illustrations it may just satisfy those who have exhausted the pages of Phaidon's other seminal 'new painting' book Vitamin P."
A Remarkable Posthumous Debut
David Cohen brings to our attention "a remarkable posthumous debut. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky… protégé to Max Beckmann and later, and to a lesser degree, Oskar Kokoschka, but for all the manifest influence of both, von Motesiczky is an audaciously lyrical painter of expressive, poignant, sometimes haunting allegories."