Click to enlarge Photo: provided by Frizk The alleged Banksy painting (center) at the Contemporary Arts Center, hung among the works of “Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks”. World-famous art maverick Banksy may have left a mark on the Contemporary Art Center last month in the form of a half-peeled banana. ARead More →
The front display of the exhibit is interactive, with viewers encouraged to pull out title sheets that reveal a guide on the underside of each. A 1988 New York Times The obituary refers to Romare Bearden as “the nation’s greatest collagist”. The Charlotte-born artist’s impact on form is so immenseRead More →
It’s the season to buy other people things they may or may not want with money you may or may not have to spare. Purchasing large quantities of mass-produced goods during the holiday season is obviously what keeps the wheels of the industry turning endlessly, but a great way toRead More →
Click to enlarge Image courtesy of Galerie 77 “A Aimless Pilgrimage II” A visit to see “Aimless Pilgrimage”, an exhibition of paintings by Danielle Klebes at 77 Gallery in Rutland, becomes a pilgrimage in itself. Minus any religious connotation, it is a pilgrimage in the sense of a journey worthRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Gerald Auten “Tokyo in Los Angeles” Graphite generally suggests pencil drawings consisting of strokes and lines, but in “Gerald Auten: Graphite Insomnia “, currently playing at White River Gallery in South Royalton, the artist uses powdered graphite or graphite pencil to construct pictures in aRead More →
JENNIFER WEST/THE REVIEW Artist Jenn West may have been drunk while creating her art, but that doesn’t take away from their deeper meanings. BY BIANCA THIRUCHITTAMPALAM, COLUMN EDITORAND JENNIFER WEST, Senior Reporter Rarely has the work of an amateur artist been produced with as much attention to detail and intelligenceRead More →
IIt was in 1972. In the halls of the Oxford college of the poet WH Auden, an unexpected visitor arrived, the composer Benjamin Britten, who was preparing an opera on the short story. Death in Venice by Auden’s stepfather, Thomas Mann. The two great artists have not met for 30Read More →
Click to enlarge Photos courtesy of Helen Day Art Center / paul Rogers Photography “White Forest (Duna)” by Jaume Plensa On the lawn of Helen Day Center for the Arts, afternoon sunlight streaming through the trees stains “Intertwining”, adding a sense of movement to the already intricate sculpture. The weather-resistantRead More →
The new Riverfront Park has its signature piece of art, but where it will go is still up for debate. A near-unanimous Spokane Park board of directors gave its approval Thursday afternoon to “Step Well,” a $ 360,000 room designed by renowned artist and architect J. Meejin Yoon as partRead More →
In a dark room in the Brooklyn Museum, 39 ornate place settings, each representing a woman forgotten in history, are arranged on a triangular table. Colorful, domed plates – many of which are abstract depictions of female genitalia – are placed on hand-sewn, gold table runners. The table, measuring 48Read More →
Albuquerque artist Emi Ozawa’s ‘Follow the Line’ wooden sculpture and installation of works on paper at the Richard Levy Gallery is a wonderful incorporation of impeccably executed technique with dynamically correct lighting in a stunning gallery space compatible with the architecture. “Follow the Line” is a 20-piece exhibit that beautifullyRead More →
Nancy Hemenway Barton (1920-2008) lived in Maine for much of her artistic life. A concert pianist, working mother and wife of a diplomat, Barton was literally a socialite. She grew up in Massachusetts (summer in Maine) and attended Wheaton College. In the late 1940s, she lived in Uruguay and Argentina.Read More →
After about two weeks of waiting, the sheath was removed on Friday from a new public sculpture at IKEA Burbank that had raised a few eyebrows before its unveiling. Under the blanket was a 16-foot-tall abstract sculpture of a vase named “Bobble,” created by Christian Moeller, a renowned artist andRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Craig Mooney “Serenade at Sunset” Craig MooneyThe large landscape paintings are a brilliant antidote to Vermont’s November skies and the leafless boughs of stick season. Many of the 21 oil paintings in his solo exhibition at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery are reminiscent of longRead More →
Some people hold back their dreams because they are afraid to act. Somer Gardiner thought she had waited long enough. Gardiner, founder and owner of clothing store Olive + Tweed, recently opened her own art boutique, Timbre Art Loft. The store is located on what was previously the second floorRead More →
Click to enlarge A mother turns her back on her three young children as she searches the back of a car trunk for something out of sight. Behind her, one of her children circles a sign indicating the loading area, while her little brother tackles cracks in the sidewalk outsideRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Susan Calza “DON’T pretend,” “As humans we are so clumsy,” says Susan Calza, “[but] we also have this incredible influence. “In a recent phone interview, the artist from Montpellier shared information about her current exhibition,” DON’T PRETEND, It’s Ordinary Gold “at Axel’s Gallery & FrameRead More →
Cate Blanchett practically eats the camera lens in “Manifesto,” a feature film by artist Julian Rosefeldt that began life as an installation at the Park Avenue Armory exhibition in Manhattan. Blanchett plays 13 distinct characters who deliver various manifestos, and these range from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels preaching economicsRead More →
The audacity of beauty lies in its ability to take over our lives and stop time. During this moment we are suspended in a state of wonder that goes beyond contemplation to pure awareness, nerves, feelings and imagination fully open. Viewers can experience these moments frequently in “Over Time,” anRead More →
Frederic Koeppel | Special to trade call To paraphrase Sigmund Freud’s famous question, I will ask, “What does Roy Tamboli want?” I have watched his art for several decades and have written about it a few times. Each time I see his work, it seems different, sometimes radically, another expressionRead More →
Until September 2 From the ready-made “Bottle Rack” (1914) by Marcel Duchamp to the accumulation of suitcases stacked against the wall by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota entitled “Searching for the Destination” (2012), we see that a certain kind of he artist works on the principle that around us thereRead More →
Courtesy of Dian Parker Bunny Harvey’s “Verges” The pale yellow walls of the White River Gallery provide a bright backdrop for ‘Fully Involved: Bunny Harvey Paintings’, an exhibition of 17 works by the TunbridgeRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston “Looking Away #1 & #2” by Jonathan Waters Sixteen artists and a poet are contributing to this year’s ‘Expositions’ exhibition, presented by the Helen Day Art CenterRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Helen Day Art Center Untitled, 2008 Pat SteirThe abstract paintings of seem to involve physical dexterity as much as artistic sensibility. At 76, this acclaimed scion ofRead More →
Click to enlarge Hugh Townley’s “Horizontal 8” Sometimes the exhibitions are so radiant that you want to soak up them like the sun. “Director’s Choice”, currently at the BigTown Gallery in Rochester, is one of them. Curated by director Anni Mackay, this exuberant group exhibition showcases the work of sevenRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston “Sweet Spill” (left) and “Fabricate” Cal channelThe art of is a matter of dichotomy – in fact, multiple dichotomies. It invites the contemplation of opposites, even of what opposing means. An exhibition of Lane’s work in plasma-cut steel and mixed media is mind-blowing, as mostRead More →
Illustration from “Subway Art” by Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper. (Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper) In 1972, New York City Mayor John Lindsay declared a “war on graffiti”, with the aim of eradicating the “plague” that afflicts subway trains. At the time, the city was on the verge of bankruptcyRead More →
Lancaster has a new public art officer who should be familiar to many in the city’s art community. Heidi Leitzke is an artist and recently served as Adjunct Professor and Gallery Director at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. “I’m so grateful to live in a city that valuesRead More →
Workers this week began installing Brea’s newest piece of public art, “Oasis.” Worth around $2.5 million, it may be the most expensive piece of public art in the county. Artist Douglas Hollis said he liked to describe the work more as a public space than a traditional sculpture. ‘Oasis’ willRead More →
It’s easy to dismiss the two glowing balls installed at the newly opened Fault Line Park in the East Village as just another silly or simplistic public art project from the city of San Diego. But Christine Jones, the Arts and Culture Commission’s new public art program manager, argues forcefullyRead More →
PPoetry and painting were once called “the brother arts”, although this comfortable phrase ignores the sibling rivalry between them. The verbal and the visual operate in different dimensions: the language unfolds in time, but the painted imagery is static and occupies space, which is why Cézanne indignantly asks a modelRead More →
Photo: K. Ignatiadis, courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery Compared to good art, “it’s much harder to talk about great art,” said sculptor Charles Ray, of Robert Gober’s spooky work, the subject of a 40-year retrospective survey at MoMA, titled ” The Heart Is Not a Metaphor.” “IfRead More →
There’s almost always something worth seeing at the American University Museum. As director and curator Jack Rasmussen says, the school’s year-round exhibition schedule — which features four to six new shows every two months — is like a three-ring circus. Much like the marquee, it can be difficult to knowRead More →
A delicate balancing act unfolds in the streets of Foggy Bottom, where the fourth edition of a biennial sculpture exhibition has taken up residence for the next few months. Questions of taste, scale, durability and subject have all been carefully weighed, as they often are when it comes to publicRead More →
The paintings of Belgian surrealist René Magritte, famous for book covers, college dorm walls, record albums, and myriad other subtle and less subtle pop culture appropriations, are a bit like epigrams: clever, concise and not always as deep as they first seem. To see many of them together in oneRead More →
NEW YORK – Decades before John Updike wrote about flat-bellied nymphs parading in bikinis, and long before Slim Aarons focused his camera on the tanned, toned people of St. Tropez, Reginald Marsh was sketching at the beach. He was attracted, like any painter, to naked bodies, but he did notRead More →
Clearly visible within the neat borders of a piece of paper is the word “study”, French for study, in a detail of Georges Braque’s boiling 1929 painting, “The round table.” Most likely, given Braque’s interest in music and the bourgeois domesticity he cultivated, the study in question is a pianoRead More →
After seeing the exhibition of works by Albrecht Durer at the National Gallery of Art, I was happy to emerge into gray skies, a bit of drizzle and emptier streets than usual. This exhibition of drawings, watercolors and prints borrowed from Albertina Museum in Vienna, is so good and captivatingRead More →
Roy Lichtenstein. The painter’s name is linked to his iconic comic book images of women, their thoughts rising in text bubbles above tentacles of tousled hair, mounds of tears streaming from their eyes. In 1993, a very successful retrospective of Lichtenstein at the Guggenheim, with some 200 pieces, sealed theRead More →
In 1969 and 1970, sculptor Michael Heizer moved 240,000 tons of rock across the Nevada desert, digging two enormous trenches, each 50 feet deep and 30 feet wide and together spanning 1,500 feet, at the east end of Mormon Mesa. In 1970, artist Robert Smithson gathered heavy equipment to layRead More →
It’s usually not a good idea to censor a mural you’ve commissioned, especially when that mural is part of an uncommissioned street art show. When the director and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeffrey Deitch, whitewashed a mural by Italian artist Blu in December, the episode perfectly illustratedRead More →
Going to the Jan Steen exhibition at the National Gallery is a bit surreal, but in a totally rewarding way. It’s like partying, Sunday school and visiting a museum all at the same time. Add to that that these paintings, created hundreds of years ago, are as up-to-date as theRead More →