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45th – Jeremiah Dine and LES
Jeremiah Dine Jeremiah Dine I wrote Interpreted for Viewing about the photography of Jeremiah Dine for The Common, an arts journal based at Amherst College. This is my second piece for them (The first...
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46th – Summer means group shows
Brian Griffiths – The Body and Ground (Or Your Brittle Smile), 2010 The group show is a sleazy orgy. It’s a mess of people, unfamiliar with the viewer and possibly one another. They are lumped...
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47th – Irwin, Hopper & Price
At the Whitney – 3 shows – Robert Irwin, Edward Hopper and I. You. We. It was a pleasure to see Robert Irwin and Edward Hopper at the Whitney at the same time. In advance of this show, my connection...
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48th – Soundings & Matthew Barney
The problem with, and triumph of, seeing sound based art is that there isn’t always something to see. I think this is more of a problem for the museum (or venue) or curator (or gallerist) than for the...
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Atlas – 49th – Fall preview
The fall art season is chasing me like a cartoon snowball rolling down a mountain. I keep looking back and it keeps getting bigger. Many galleries have already opened their seasons with their...
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50th – Paul Reed, NYABF, Ryman
Paul Reed is a name I didn’t know and I am guessing you don’t either. He is a Washington Color School artist that, from what I can tell, was forgotten outside of a fairly small group of collectors,...
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51st – Whitten, Shields, McCracken
This week is a surface week, it just happened that way. The artists I want to highlight don’t need my help. One of them is still with us and two are not. They all have good galleries and good...
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52nd – William Anastasi
William Anastasi. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, 1965. Magnetic tape, nails, approx. 80 x 71 in. Collection of Tony Ganz. Photo credit: Louis Chan. William Anastasi: Sound Works, 1963–2013 at Hunter...
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53rd – Pettibon and Kentridge
In the arms race of Megagallery vs Megagallery this fall, Raymond Pettibon’s “To Wit” at David Zwirner deserves more ire than the critics whipping boy Matthew Day Jackson show at Hauser and Wirth....
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54th – The Thing and Betbeze
The thing I have realized recently is that art is so often a thing. By this I usually mean an actual object but also a scene that might not produce an object. An experience is a thing if enough people...
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55th – Mary Temple
Photo Credit: Rich Ryan and Etienne Frossard Below is my essay for Mary Temple’s current exhibition: Mary Temple Half Round, 2013 from the series Light Installations, (2002-Present) Olson Gallery,...
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56th – Flat/ Not Flat and Lou Reed
I am pleased to announce that a show I curated at Artspace New Haven is opening this week featuring the work of Jennifer Davies, Karen Dow, Alisa Dworsky and Martha Lewis. The opening is 5-8 this...
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57th – Flat/ Not Flat
Alisa Dworsky and Jennifer Davies Photo Credit: Graham Hebel Last weekend Flat /Not Flat, the show I curated at Artspace New Haven, opened. I have images and my statement for the show below. At the...
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58th – Lists and Motherwell
Robert Motherwell, View from a High Tower, 1944–45. Tempera, oil, ink, pastel, and pasted wood veneer, drawing papers, Japanese papers, and printed map on paperboard, 74.3 x 74.3 cm. Private collection...
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59th – Gorky’s Granddaughter
Gorky’s Granddaughter is a website dedicated to giving anyone access to a studio visit. It is the kind of homegrown project that becomes a reality due to unselfish hard work and cheap digital video...
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60th – Martin Creed No. 1
Incomplete. Unfinished. Tentative. I say these words often in the conversation about art. The connotations of these terms are clear, but I think they can be used as hopeful and even positive....
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61st – Reinhardt, Marden and Ryman
A few weeks back I went and saw Brice Marden: Graphite Drawings at Matthew Marks as well as Ad Reinhardt at David Zwirner. The Ad Reinhardt show at Zwirner has been much praised and it was mentioned...
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62nd – Martha Willette Lewis
Folded Stellar Hive, 2013 The Common, an arts journal I have contributed to in the past (Jeremiah Dine and Rachel Barrett), recently published this piece I wrote about Martha Willette Lewis. Around...
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63rd – Balthus, Held, Kentridge and Ink Art at the Met, Spiegelman at the...
There are many great shows on at the Met right now. Do your best to see as many of them as you can. William Kentridge “The Refusal of Time” at the Met and the small print and drawing show associated...
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64th – Cage and Sound closely considered
Barbara London’s Soundings at MoMA and it’s related events made a great impression on me in 2013. William Anastasi’s sound works, a performance of Drumming by Steve Reich, Janet Cardiff at the...
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