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Sarah Amos is an artist with a consummate mastery of printmaking. In this new body of work, her third show at Cynthia Reeves Gallery in Chelsea, she pits macro against micro, playing bold, dramatic shapes against delicate forms and textures. In her...
Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of...
John Baldessari that bastard, the late Jimmie Byers, the late Nancy Spero, august Louise Bourgeois, Claes the great Oldenburg, and Alighero e (and) Boetti are International School artists sharing...
This week’s Weekly has my interview with Malcolm Mclaren, whose video Shallow 1-21 opens this week at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ Morris Gallery. Â Below is my copy with some...
By Sue Spaid
For the past three years, I have followed the debate surrounding the Barnes Foundation’s move from Merion to Benjamin Franklin Parkway with great interest. October...
Did you know that since 1989 Los Angeles has funded their art agency via a 1% tax on hotel charges? According the the LA Times blog Culture Monster ” The total (amount of the municipal spending on the arts from that hotel tax) typically has come to...
Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic...
Ken Johnson wrote a Philagrafika review in yesterday’s New York Times. Thought you’d enjoy, if you haven’t yet read it, although Johnson does focus only on the five major shows of the Graphic Unconsciousness. But Philagrafika is offering way more than...
In the annals of self-promotion of a good kind, this info came in from a reader named Jason Nelson, who’s a digital art professor in Australia. He is the author of a number of internet games–at which I am rather inept, it taking me about seven tries to...
As luck would have it I went to see the work of a young French artist named Alba Pistolesi.
Alba is , in her words, obsessed with cancelling the usefulness of objects as well as with table legs and their standard 72cm length.A week earlier she had...
Sure it's a decent blog but if felt like it was a little bland maybe... it could just be me. It probably is me. I've been told this a lot, so maybe you should ignore my review...
