(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

I am happy to report that John Link and Darby Bannard have established a new blog called artcrit.org This is not to be confused with Newcrit, the more formal website that Link & Bannard have had posted for some time. artcrit.org is intended to function much as artblog.net, the blog created by Frankin Einspruch, used to function, in the days when comments appeared immediately on it and the result was a free-ranging conversation comparable  Read More 

I have already expounded at some length for artcritical.com on “Frank Stella: New Work” at Freedman Art (through September 27). Here I shall summarize what I said there, and then go on to a bit of reminiscence. The bottom line here is that I liked the best work in this show  Read More 

On the way back from my visit to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, I stopped at Princeton NJ to view “John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum” at the Princeton University Art Museum (through June 10; now at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, in Nashville, through September 30). I’d been told about this show by Cara London, the  Read More 

A reproduction of “The Beach” (1955), by William Baziotes, one of the original but lesser-known first generation abstract expressionists, accompanied a review in the July 27 NY Times by Ken Johnson of “Signs & Symbols” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Though the review didn’t send me up the wall with delight, it made me want  Read More 

While I was in the Hamptons in July, I also paid a call on the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center on Fireplace Road in Springs, which – with its nearby Studio Barn — in June, July & August is open to the public from 1 to 5, Thursday through Saturday, and in September and October  Read More 

Here's a link to a website that my readers may find interesting. Seems that Mitt Romney, who is running against President Obama, doesn't just want to cut back funding for PBS, Amtrak, NEH & NEA. He wants to cut out funding for them altogether. That, on top of cutting back  Read More 

What Holland Cotter of the New York Times calls “the big event of the summer season in New York” is really three events in one. Its collective title is “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World,” but it is three separate exhibitions, being held simultaneously at El Museo del Barrio (through  Read More 

Ever since I was in graduate school, I’ve known that Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was a member of Les Nabis (Hebrew and Arabic for “prophets”), that group of avant-garde painters in the 1890s who took as their point of departure the “synthetism” of Paul Gauguin. I also knew that  Read More