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Petlin’s Ambiguous Agitprop Pushes Dialogue, Not Dogma
Courtesy of the Kent Gallery
Irving Petlin
The centerpiece of Irving Petlin’s exhibition of paintings and drawings at Kent Gallery is The read more »
Maddening Consistency Hampers Siena’s Intricately Pretty Pictures
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James Siena
Anyone who wouldn’t want a painting by James Siena hanging over the sofa must be nuts. read more »
Giacometti’s Depictions of Women Inspire Reverence, Some Revision
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Alberto Giacometti
The Women of Giacometti, an array of paintings and sculpture by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti read more »
Giacometti's Depictions of Women Inspire Reverence, Some Revision
The Women of Giacometti, an array of paintings and sculpture by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti read more »
The Larry Generation Goes Go-Go; Hey, It’s Chelsea on Steroids!
Tom Powel
Julian Schnabel, his chest hair, and his Tibetan Buddhist pal Mingyur Rinpoche
It isn’t much of a stretch to call last Thursday’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash grand Chels read more »
A Group Show Figures Out Aesthetics of Human Form
Courtesy of George Billis Gallery
Maureen Mullarkey's Batya, 2003.
Abstract painters like to bitch and moan about their lot in life. read more »
What Are the Rules? Glimcher Exhibition Stated Aesthetic
The exhibition called Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, organized by Marc Glimcher fo read more »
Joel Shapiro's Rickety Sculptures Hang Loose at PaceWildenstein
You won't believe what I saw upon entering the 57th Street branch of PaceWildenstein Gallery: A coll read more »
Alex Katz’s Attack Of Nine-Foot Women Cheerfully Grotesque
It has been said of the oversize exhibition spaces which have now become a standard feature of Chels read more »
A Painter's Ultimate Challenge: Embracing the Palette Pariah
How do you distinguish a colorist from a painter who hasn't a clue? read more »
Rothko's Progress Toward Abstraction Focuses on 1949
Among the many exhibitions of Mark Rothko's paintings I have seen over the course of many years-and read more »
Currently Hanging
An Indispensable Reminder:Civilization's Not a Done Deal
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What Sculpture Might Have Looked Like on Day 1
One of the casualties of culture, brought about by the ascendance of the Dadaist esthetic, is the de read more »
New Julian Schnabel Show: Portraits and Crockery
It is with decidedly mixed feelings that I return to the work of Julian Schnabel, whose so-called Pl read more »
Mondrian, Reinhardt Star In Great Show at Pace
For aficionados of the most absolute of all forms of modernist painting-strict geometrical abstracti read more »
