What Meets the Eye
My Ear Comes Off!
What next? Isis offers stuffed Mohammed? The Catholic Church sells plush Crucifixion with detachachable nails and a rubber hammer? Jesus wept. – CNQ to read more of What Meets the Eye
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Philip Guston: The In-Between Years at Hauser and Wirth
To begin with, intense satisfaction. We knew he got from point A to point B and now we know how and can confirm it by checking the dates to figure out the progression. […]
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Eisenman-ia at The New Museum
And yet. And yet, Eisenman is a terrific painter, full of invention, so much to look at, so much to argue with and and talk about. This genre of historical painting, maybe it is the […]
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Jennifer Bartlett and Me
Now on top of everything else, Jennifer Bartlett is painting my paintings for me. As I learned courtesy of Raggedy Ann’s Foot (*) a couple weeks ago—do you see? And it pained me. Fearing […]
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What’s Behind the Papered-over Windows at Outlet Gallery: NSFW | Male Nudes by Female Painters
OK, the women are finally getting their day, turning the objectifying tables and whatnot, and now we’re going to see some female subtlety and range of emotion. However, when I take a hard look (haha), […]
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“Nice Weather” on the Upper East Side at Skarstedt
I was considering going to the Met Breuer “Unfinished…” when I walked into “Nice Weather”, and that is probably why I started wondering if these paintings were finished. The Met has pitched a curveball at […]
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“Darkness of My Life”, too. George Condo in “Nice Weather” at Skarstedt Gallery
Do you ever experience a dream that’s like falling down steps in the dark? And one time I fell off a country road down a wooded hill because I was looking at the moon, which […]
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Liz Gargas and Brent Ridge at the New Art Center in Newton, Mass.
In a two-person show I look for what connects the painters. Well, actually, I am always looking for connections between painters (as well as ideas I might use myself) because for the most part, these […]
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The Second Time Around at “Greater New York” at PS1
…is better than the first time. The reason? Lowered expectations (possibly the key to happiness in all things.) So I didn’t hurry from room to room in search of something else without knowing what that […]
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Important Conversations: Fred Valentine at Schema Projects
The Pumpkin Festival and Other Portraits” is a show of large and small scale portraits in charcoal that Valentine made 1989-91. The large scale portraits drew me into surprisingly intimate conversations. Actually they are not […]