February 2008
The Archives
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exhibitions
Agnes Martin
From artforum.com
Agnes Martin
PETER BLUM SOHO
99 Wooster Street
January 18–March 15
This brisk tour of Agnes Martin’s career—forty years in twenty drawings—is anchored by On a Clear Day, 1973, a series of prints offering thirty ways to regard the square. The number of horizontal and vertical lines in Martin’s dark, delicate fretwork varies from print to print, creating […] -
reviews
choose your own adventure - the whitney biennial
Excerpt from the NYT [link to story]
A Biennial Bustin’ Out of the Whitney
By CAROL VOGEL
Old mattresses springs
Crates of Ping Pong balls
Gallons of Gatorade
Boxes of twigs
Fragments of sidewalk grating
A Brooks Brothers suit
Artificial hair
Rolls of colored ribbon
A white cotton tent
Nine cots
This is not a shopping list for a Boy Scout adventure but a small sampling of materials […] -
artists, reviews
The People’s Artist, Herself a Work of Art
Excerpt from the New York Times [link to story]
February 29, 2008
Art Review
The People’s Artist, Herself a Work of Art
By HOLLAND COTTERPHILADELPHIA — You really should come down, a friend e-mailed me this summer from Mexico City. She meant, come down for the Frida Kahlo centennial, with a retrospective at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and […]
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artists, daily fix
Zoe Hyde
Zoe Hyde
Presence
Mixed Media
2008
Zoe’s work captures fragments of experiences both from past and present. A narrative runs through the paintings, which brings memories, dreams, and moments in time together. She explores the juxtaposition between the beauty and excitement of life and its inherent fragility.
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reviews
Seductive Rebel Who Kept It Real
Excerpt from the New York Times [link to full story]
February 29, 2008
Art Review | Gustave Courbet
Seductive Rebel Who Kept It RealBy ROBERTA SMITH
At the moment the Metropolitan Museum of Art, always a paradise of painting, is more edenic than ever. In less than four weeks it has opened three large exhibitions, each devoted to […] -
artists, daily fix
Natvar Bhavsar
VESAKH
2006
Pure pigment on canvas
137 x 149”
“Painting for Bhavsar was not an exercise in pictoral problem solving but a vehicle of spiritual expression.”
-Irving Sandler
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artists, daily fix
Manish Pushkale
Preet-Vilam
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60″ x 60″
Year: 2005
Manish Pushkale is Raza ’s protege, and has been working on the concept of saamayik (which means japa or chanting) for the last three years. Manish works in oil on canvas with a minimum intervention of the brush to give the canvas a thin colour bath. His entire […] -
Open Forum
Art as Experience
02.28.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI’d like to open up a discussion on John Dewey’s Art as Experience.
To begin I’ll open with a quotation from page 1:
When an art product once attains classic status, it somehow becomes isolated from the human conditions under which it was brought into being and from the human consequences it engenders in actual life-experience. -
reviews
The Terrible Toll of Art Anxiety
Excerpt From the New York Times [link to story]
February 28, 2008
The Terrible Toll of Art Anxiety
By JOYCE WADLER
TEDDY GREENSPAN is a longtime art collector who does not suffer doubt. He is a bond salesman at Libertas Partners, in Greenwich, Conn., and he and his wife, Emily, recently created an art consulting company in Bedford, N.Y., […] -
artists, daily fix
Kikuo Saito
KIKUO SAITO
Orange Dust
2004
Oil On Canvas
59 x 41 1/2 inches
www.kikuosaito.com
Saito, a Japanese artist who has lived in the United States since 1966 is considered by critics to be a true colorist. He understands uses the effects of color in his lyrical canvases characterized by broad gestural brush strokes of color. Over 20 years ago Saito apprenticed […]
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