This highly focused exhibition takes a look at one of the “most innovative, momentous and little studied periods in the long career of Matisse.” It begins when he left Morocco and returned to Paris in 1913 and ends when he left Paris for Nice in 1917. The works from these years are extremely reworked –abstraction [...]
This was my second visit to Storm King and it certainly lived up to the memory I had of my first experience. Though it was extremely hot out, I managed to cover all of the grounds and see some of their newest additions. If you have not been, you must make the trip. Only an [...]
I very much enjoyed Art Unlimited, more so than the large fair itself. In this section of Art Basel, larger works are on view and for sale.
Michelangelo Pistoletto created a maze of corrugated cardboard leading to a mirror in the center (the medium he is best known for).
I am never certain what is happening or [...]
I headed down to Louisville, Kentucky for the first time to check out the hotel/museum 21c owned by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson. The red penguin, seen above in pajamas for their annual pajama party fundraiser, is the logo and mascot of the establishment. The 90-room property, which occupies five 19th-century brick buildings on West [...]
Art Basel 2010. Overall, some excellent works on view. There were fewer Americans visiting than in previous years but buying still seemed to be happening for smaller ticket items. I preferred Volta and Liste which had some really great works by artists I had not heard of before and some by better-known artists for “accessible” [...]
In a span of only eight short years, Jean-Michel Basquiat created about 1000 paintings and more than 2000 drawings– all before his death at the age of 27. In honor of what would have been his 50th birthday, Fondation Beyeler has a retrospective on view with over 150 paintings and works on paper from private [...]
The exhibition The New Decor at Hayward Gallery includes work by 36 artists from 22 different countries and features works and installations that “take design as a point of departure. By transforming or subverting the appearance and display of everyday furniture, these artworks demolish the accepted etiquette of interior design and the idealized image of [...]
Also on view at the Hayward is The Edges of the World, a massive installation by Ernesto Neto. Unlike his large work created for the Park Avenue Armory in 2009, this work is made of many different materials and is broken into specific pieces in separate rooms. Outside is a lareg steel sculpture made from discs that [...]
Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is the first commission by a black British artist and also the first one that is specifically linked to the history of Trafalgar Square. It takes the notion of awe and childish wonder of a ship in a bottle to a monumental [...]
First introduced to Truitt’s work when I was helping organize a show of Minimalist work at Vivian Horan Fine Art, I immediately fell in love with the simplicity of the line, form and color in her work. It is amazing to me how such seemingly banal works trigger emotion in me. Unable to see the [...]