What Meets the Eye
Ceija Stojka: To See as a Child
The most painful image in this show is one that Stojka didn’t paint but is clear in my imagination. It is of a ten year old girl who stands in a deathcamp courtyard. I have […]
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What Meets the Eye
Gilles Deleuze “On Painting” Session 1 (A Painter’s Response)
“What does ‘speaking about painting’ mean? I believe that it means precisely: forming concepts that are in direct relation with painting and with painting alone.” Things have not been going well in the studio for […]
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John Bradford- The Lightness of Being
People can be nice. They can have a small wedding in Central Park under a maple beside a stream, hire a two-piece band, the guy can wear a kilt to symbolize his Scottish heritage—the gal, […]
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Beatriz Milhazes: Spinning Off the Spiral and a few remarks about Conceptual Art and Rashid Johnson
It’s startling to step away from the Guggenheim spiral of Rashid Johnson’s “deep thinking” and swirl into the brightly colored world of Beatriz Milhazes. The latest in science is that the right brain /left brain […]
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Van Gogh and Kiefer: David and Goliath
The Van Gogh Museum and The Stedelijk, by showing Van Gogh and Kiefer side by side have inadvertently allowed us to judge between them. Only the critic from The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, has had the […]
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Catherine Murphy: What is Real?
After thinking steadily about Murphy’s paintings for a month, last night I had a dream about her and her husband Harry Roseman. We went swimming in the ocean and bobbed up and down on the […]
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Can You Forgive Him?
“I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host.” ― Dorothy Parker According to the NYT Arn is “accused of making […]
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Alexis Rockman “Naples: Course of Empire”
Naples: Course of Empire is a depressing show because it is about apocalyptic events in the past, present and future. Depressing also because it’s a schlocky mix of abstract expressionism, color field and not-good-enough illustration. […]
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Brooklyn Artists Show—”Oy Vey!”
4,000 artists applied to be in the semi-open call “Brooklyn Artists Exhibition” but not me—I didn’t like their condescending tone. Artists were invited to send one image and fill out a questionnaire designed to bring […]
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“Abstraction By Any Other Name” and “Abstraction Now”
Abstraction By Any Other Name, is an eight person show (this is Part One) states that these are painters “whose work’s initial appearance seems to present itself as variants of Abstract Expressionism, when in reality […]