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Between Her Garden and the Studio: Jessica Stockholder on Laura Letinsky, Part II
Like art, the garden represents an insertion of personal idiosyncratic thought into a campus landscape designed to represent power, prestige, order, unity and corporate structure.
Between Her Garden and the Studio: Jessica Stockholder on Laura Letinsky, Part I
The gap between gazing through the window that turned the yard into something picturesque, and being in the yard with dirt under my fingernails, can be understood as one subject of my work.
Painting is Undead: The Iconography of Anne Imhof, By Dil Hildebrand
...when performing actions they do so with zombie-like disaffection like flies stunned by a bug lamp, jerking sporadically into and out of states of repose.
Julie Heffernan on Pierre Bonnard: Part II
Bonnard is no easy reach. The challenge he sets for all narrative painters is formidable: how to use both understatement and wild speculation to tell a bold story well...
Julie Heffernan on Pierre Bonnard: Part I
Bonnard’s was a revolution in subject matter, turning a dining room table into a phantasmagoric carnival and a woman at her toilette into a primal spectacle...
Keiran Brennan Hinton on Michael Stamm
The thin screens of constructed space, which I wade through at a sluggish speed, feel like the layers of a person you're getting to know.
John Goodrich on Henri Matisse
While I admire Picasso’s drawing, prints and sculpture, Matisse still represents for me the fullest mixture, in the modern age, of discrimination and passion.
Gary Stephan on Paul Cezanne
Picasso said of Cezanne: "He is the father of us all.” In this essay I want to take the "us" expansively.
Melinda Stickney-Gibson on Susan Rothenberg
It's a curious thing to feel an immediate and unflagging connection and respect for a fellow painter's work
Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET
Once you get into his weird scale and murmuring color a whole world opens up.
A Call to Action: Kelli Scott Kelley on Julie Heffernan
The bare-breasted heroine, the apparent caretaker of the heap, wielding a chainsaw...
John Moore on Pierre Roy
In the seventies while living in Philadelphia I spent a lot of time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where I first saw Pierre Roy's Metric System.
Samuel Jablon on Mike Cloud
Like a sinister joke, or a self-destructive one, the work makes us laugh and question why we’re laughing.
Murray Zimiles on Kazimir Malevich
In keeping with communist doctrine, he claims that his work glorifies the proletariat...