January 10, 2012
At just the moment, midway down the ramp of the Guggenheim, when the Maurizio Cattelan retrospective installation, All, began to lose its amusing edge and spectacular novelty, and become tiresome, I was led off-ramp, off-track by my friend Susan Bee who had escaped through a small portal to see Kandinsky’s Painting with White Border, a [...]
Posted in art, painting, sculpture | Tagged artists' writings, Grahame Wienbren, Maurizio Cattelan, Vassily Kandinsky
January 1, 2012
I woke up one morning this week, walked into my studio while still half asleep, looked around and thought, my work is just not enough. This may not seem like a good start to a New Year of positive thinking, but I immediately understood that this thought, surging from the liminal space between sleep and [...]
Posted in art, painting, sculpture | Tagged African art, Andrea Mantegna, Michael Baxandall, painting, portraiture, Renaissance art, Sandro Botticelli
December 9, 2011
Just over a year ago I wrote In Memoriam: Rozsika Parker, Feminist Art Historian and activist to mark the death of the noted British feminist art historian and psychotherapist Rozsika Parker (December 27, 1945-November 5, 2010). A conference in honor of her work was held in London December 10, CELEBRATING ROZSIKA PARKER 1945 – 2010, [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged feminism, feminist art, Feminist art history, Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses, Rozsika Parker, The Feminist Art Project
December 8, 2011
Two painting exhibitions currently across the street from each other on West 25th street challenge any notions one might still harbor about the greater value of being “younger than Jesus.” By some fortuitous coincidence just a few steps separate “Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings” at Cheim & Read from “Matta: A Centennial Celebration” at Pace [...]
Posted in art, painting | Tagged H. C. Westermann, Jack Tworkov, Joan Mitchell, old age style, Richard Artschwager, Roberto Matta, Willem de Kooning
November 15, 2011
When the NYPD raided the Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park this morning, they tossed the 5,554 books that were assembled from donations into The People’s Library, an extemporaneous institution with a proper librarian and its own website, into dumpsters. According to the story as reported this morning on mediabistro.com: “According to the city’s [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Leo Steinberg, Occupy Wall Street, The People's Library
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