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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...
I first came across the work of Adad Hannah at Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural triennial exhibition focusing on Quebec artists held over a year ago. Hannah’s photographs taken at the Prado Museum showed viewers (now subjects)...
This week’s Weekly has my first Friday roundup. Below is the copy with pictures.
Big news this First Friday: A new gallery, Marginal Utility , is opening in the Vox building. The six-story former factory building already houses Vox Populi , Copy ,...
Jack Pierson's inevitable sculpture, The Show Must Go On, 2008, let folks know this was indeed an art fair. Private collection.
Perhaps the perfect metaphor for the contemporary art fair is the media-fattened story of the Balloon Boy (in the US),...
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...
