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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
September 5, 2011
After I had completed my first major read-through of the diaries and papers of the painter Jack Tworkov in preparation for editing them into a book of collected writings, Jack’s daughter Helen Tworkov asked me if I had discovered anything that had surprised me. I could answer with frankness, no. That is, Helen and her [...]
Posted in art | Tagged Abstract Expressionism, Helen Tworkov, Hermine Ford, Jack Tworkov, Janice Biala, John Cage, The Extreme of the Middle, The New York School
June 6, 2011
This post is inspired by two aspects of the life of the artist. First, friendships are very important to artists, perhaps because the nature of being an artist often includes necessary aloneness in the making, the thinking, or the ideological position, within an atmosphere of bracing but sometimes corrosive competitiveness so that it is essential [...]
Posted in art, sculpture | Tagged Emma Bee Bernstein, Hermine Ford, Ilya Schor, Jack Tworkov, Mimi Gross, Resia Schor, Sarah Wells, Susan Bee
October 3, 2010
The necessity of being perceived as having a brand at first glance seems to be specific to our time: in politics you’ll hear that President Obama can’t do such and such because it would go against “The Brand.” Brand Obama or Brand Brad Pitt can’t be altered without entering into a Bermuda triangle of non-recognition [...]
Posted in art, painting, sculpture | Tagged Abstract Expressionism, Ad Reinhardt, Arshile Gorki, Barnett Newman, Clement Greenberg, David Smith, Jack Tworkov, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, MoMA, Norman Kleeblatt, painting, Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning
May 1, 2010
Uptown, at the Met, April 22 I arrived at the Met late in the afternoon, having stopped first at Acquavella Gallery to see Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection. I feel like I knew the Sculls personally because I show Emile de Antonio’s 1973 great documentary film Painters Painting whenever I teach about [...]
Posted in art, painting | Tagged Andy Warhol, Jack Tworkov, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, medieval sculpture, painting
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