When I wandered into Gagosian in 2016 at the very beginning of my career as an art critic and saw Jeff Koons’ Gazing Balls, I went up to look closely at the reproduction of Manet’s […]
You might as well forget genre when you encounter Araujo’s work. There is an insistence on playfulness, freedom and improvisation. I guess you’ll know what I mean when I say that you have to be […]
There is an unsettling lack of inhibition in Doe’s paintings. They are overloaded with sexual symbols, tropes and innuendos and it’s not a comfortable mix—they are hot and bothered—I don’t find in them the ironic […]
Somehow, I got the idea, I think it was from a Greek, that it is my “duty to praise the good”—which sounds simple, but isn’t. Out of laziness, narcissism, jealousy or just enjoying something for […]
It takes a leap of the imagination, on the part of the curators (of course!) but on the part of the viewers too, to connect Cubism and trompe l’oeil. Once you start leaping though, it’s […]
Like an acquaintance you can’t stand at first (perhaps they seem a bit cold and harsh?) who becomes a friend—or even a lover…on a snowy day in a Soho gallery, nobody else was there, I […]
The Gestalt Therapy approach to dreams is quite different than the Freudian or Jungian model. Snakes are not defacto penises and mythical archetypes are not employed. Instead, the analysand is asked to become some image […]
Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the dire news, but scrolling through the Two Coats of Paint Gallery Guide (the best guide in NYC!) nothing excited me, couldn’t find a destination show, ergo the adoption of […]
Lazily, I refer you to two great descriptions of Stanley Lewis’ paintings by John Yau and Thaddeus Radell. I could do it myself, but— they have done it so well. “I think of Stanley Lewis, […]
I bet William Klein likes Yes! The photographs are presented in grids on the wall with no glass, on tabletop video projections showing a hand turning the pages of a book and in slide shows […]
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