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Biennial Artists Grateful to Tiffany and Co
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Katharina Grosse: Bad Painting Without Irony
Sincerity has returned to Chelsea in a big way, most notably in the work of Katharina Grosse. For one thing, Grosse confesses that by using a spray gun she can express her thoughts very quickly. […]
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“I’ll bet this looks easy” Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim Museum
I don’t like Agnes Martin. Do you have a problem with that? How can we have a dialogue if we only think and talk about what we like? I didn’t like her, but […]
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Putting Things in Perspective: David Brody and Elliott Green
Brody and Green paint unpeopled, brightly colored, constructed landscapes. By constructed I mean they are neither observed from nature nor painted from photographs. In both men’s work, video games come to mind—specifically the background landscapes […]
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Pleasure and Pain: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
“Mastry” is in part pleasure, in part pain. Are the parts equal? That’s what I feel so confused about. In the wall info next to an early self-portrait, Marshall refers to Ralph Ellison: “Ellison’s notion […]
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Alma Thomas—Only one more week! at Studio Museum Harlem
She beguiled me with her rainbows and whispered in my ear, “See how simple it can be?” So I went to school with Alma and she learned me. I started by trying to figure out […]
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Narrative Painting Part II: Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art
Staver creates a palette so disciplined and toned down that the light glaring or filtering in, catching an edge of a knife or the side of a goat or a swan or a cardinal’s breast […]
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How Much is that Dog in the Window?
One reason that there is so little art criticism is that the shit just doesn’t seem worth talking about. Another is that the artist him-or herself incorporates all possible critiques. Like this crass half-assed factory-made […]
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Narrative Painting Part I: Dan Schein’s “Where Do We Dump the Bodies?”
I wonder if other women or even children are beginning to think that adult males are becoming a little too comfortable with the role of the anti-hero? The hopeless, hapless guy who doesn’t know how […]
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“I Got Plenty of Nuttin”: The Met’s Financial Woes and the Age of Digital Reproduction
As a result of too-rapid expansion, unforeseen (?) interest payments due, and “ambitious” rebranding (among other things) the Met, like so many corporations, overstretched. The administration is therefore pursuing the standard corporate “solutions” we know […]