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Elizabeth Peyton's Snapshot Romanticism: New Work at GBE (A Review)
"Snapshot romanticism" may seem like an oxymoron, but it was the first phrase that fired in my brain while thinking of Elizabeth Peyton's small paintings and drawings currently on exhibit at Gavin Bro...
Spring Art Cleaning: Out with the Junk-Yard Aesthetic and In with the Small Paintings
Can you smell the roses and linseed oil? There's a linen-fresh and sometimes, new mossy scent in the spring art air this week, a sign that this season's winter of artfully messy assemblage has started...
The Shadows Cast Upon the Wall: Paul Chan's Luminous Narrative at the New Museum
When I walked by St. Patrick's Old Cathedral on my way to the New Museum of Contemporary Art on the Bowery, I had little idea that I'd soon find a relationship between the aged church with the exhibit...
Classic New York: The King Cole Bar at the St. Regis
A 20-dollar bill doesn't go far in Manhattan, but it's enough to cover the price of the signature Red Snapper at the King Cole Bar inside the St. Regis Hotel at 2 E. 55th St. and over which you can se...
Establishing Shots: The Tribeca Film Festival & 2008 Festival Highlights
"Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."- Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976)After the attacks of...
Reflections on Reviewing Art and Culture in the Blogosphere
Google Alert! Here's a post with your name on it!During the glamorous days of the New York theater on opening night, actors would head to a swell place like Sardi's after the performance to anxiously ...
Pack Arts Journalism in the Age of Un-Art: Writing About the Whitney Biennial
Though I have yet to see the newly-opened Whitney Biennial, I enjoy my biennial hobby of reading all the reviews before I go. I'm always looking to test my thesis that something I call "pack arts crit...
Earning Her Wrinkles: Rosalind Solomon at Silverstein Photography (A Review)
Looking at photographer Rosalind Solomon's well-composed black-and-white self-portraits – the wrinkles around the mouth, her puffed eyes, the wild gray hair, ample sagging breasts, and the age spots...
Roundup: The Plaza Hotel, Sondheim's Seurat, the Texas Primary, and the Upcoming Gelato Showdown in the Village
As I gather my thoughts about the Chichester Festival Theatre's entertaining production of Macbeth that I saw last night at BAM, I would like to pass on a few updates and news items:• I've now assem...
Schnabel, WOTBA, and Venetian Masks: Most Popular Search Terms
I like to know the means by which new readers come to this website, and perusing the list of most popular search terms from time to time, I begin to ascertain patterns. I am also curious how well I he...
Jasper Johns: On the Cold Gray Stones (A Review)
“Break, break, break,On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!And I would that my tongue could utterThe thoughts that arise in me.” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson"Jasper Johns, the seafaring stranger," I thought. ...
"Things the Mind Already Knows:" The Drawings of Jasper Johns (A Review)
Forty of Jasper Johns' drawings of the last ten years, currently on exhibit at Matthew Marks (522 W. 22 St.) in Chelsea, recommend themselves on so many levels that it's hard to know where to begin. I...
FOCUS on POTUS: The Two Washingtons of the Washington Square Arch
Officially, it's still called Washington's Birthday, though President's Day has become the accepted name, mostly as a way to include President Lincoln.The day's meaning usually signifies a break from ...
Luc Tuymans' Wonderful World of Painting (A Review)
Belgian-born artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) brings his painterly virtuosity to the kingdom of the mouse in his new solo exhibit, Forever, The Management of Magic, at David Zwirner. The image fragments o...
The Aesthetics of "Slow": Reflections on The Slow Movement and the Arts
I'm a slow poke, as they say. I hate to rush, and as the proponents of the Slow Movement advocate, I like to engage in activities that just creep along and force a break with the frantic rhythms of th...
Walking Art Video: Mesmerizing Animated Wall Painting by the Artist Blu
I enjoy this animated wall painting from the artist Blu. I also like Blu's website, not only for its clever design but for the sketchbooks.I haven't sketched in a long time. I usually sketch outside, ...
Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: The Art Pilgrimage to the West
See related posts for Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge, Georgia O'Keeffe and New York City.Readers of this site who also regularly peruse The New York Times may have picked up today...
Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: Georgia O'Keeffe at The Met
I went to the Met on Tuesday to look at Georgia O'Keeffe paintings, but first I had to find them. A couple of museum workers thought they had seen one or two in the Modern Art section, but they also r...
Fifth Avenue & The High Road to Taos: Georgia O'Keeffe's Long Road Home
When Mabel Dodge invited Georgia O'Keeffe to spend the summer with her in Taos in 1929, O'Keeffe accepted the invitation without first consulting her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, a dominating spouse. Sh...
The Building that Would Glow at Night: Raymond Hood, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the American Radiator Building
From the walk, Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge, Georgia O'Keeffe and New York City.Whenever I come upon the Radiator Building on 40th Street on the south side of Bryant Park I am i...
Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge and The Paterson Strike Pageant
From the walk, Fifth Avenue and The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge, Georgia O'Keeffe and New York City. The walk explores the worlds of Dodge and O'Keeffe, their intertwined biographies, and their ind...
Fifth Avenue & The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge Sees Art By "A Schoolteacher Out West"
A continuation of the walk, Fifth Avenue & The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge Luhan, Georgia O'Keeffe, and New York City. See related posts.Flashback: In the Fall of 1915 Georgia O'Keeffe was teac...
Ladies of the Canyon: Mabel Dodge and Georgia O'Keeffe
"Trina wears her wampum beadsShe fillls her drawing book with lineSewing lace on widows' weedsAnd filigree on leaf and vine"-Joni Mitchell, "Ladies of the Canyon"See the post Fifth Avenue & The Hi...
Fifth Avenue & The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge Luhan, Georgia O'Keeffe, and New York City (A Walk)
IntroductionYears ago, in the plaza of Taos, New Mexico, my mother and I struck up a conversation with a guy who ran a sandwich stand. He told us he was a New Yorker, a former business executive who d...
Forthcoming NY Museum Exhibitions: My Short List of Blockbusters, Early 2008
What follows is my selected list of museum exhibitions opening in January and February that should cast away the winter blues.The Met:In the Light of Poussin: The Classical Landscape TraditionJanuary ...
New York Art Highlights of 2007
The opening of the new Roman and Greek Galleries at the Met and the unveiling of the New Museum on the Bowery are two memorable high-profile events from the year, but I also still vividly recall many ...
Those Fabulous Anarcho-Socialist Ashcan Artists, and A Walk to McSorley's
''Never think of beauty or use small brushes.'' - Robert HenriView Larger MapThree current exhibitions, two in New York and one in Wilmington, Delaware, highlight the work of the Ashcan artists, a coh...
The Pleasures of the Ashcan Artists: An Exhibit at the New-York Historical Society
Many of the most famous paintings by members of the Ashcan artists, such as William Glackens' Hammerstein's Roof Garden and a pair of George Bellows' boxing paintings are currently on display in the e...
Capturing the Big Mo: Michele Asselin's Photographs of Mike Huckabee
The Huckabee Factor by Zev Chafets, the cover story of the upcoming issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine and now available online, is accompanied by several images, including a couple of stunni...
Holiday Gift Ideas for the Artists on Your List
The best gift that you can give an artist is free room and board for a year in a spacious loft studio with track lighting and a generous per diem for expenses.Something free you can give an artist, an...
