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(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

By Piri Halasz

Report from the Front

Art criticism, sometimes with context, occasional politics. Published in hard copy 2-4 times a year. New shows: "events;" hard copy rates & how to support the online edition: "works."

 

WARRINGTON COLESCOTT, WISCONSIN ORIGINAL

April 25, 2016
Tags: Warrington Colescott
Warrington Colescott, Death in Venice - Dark Gondola, 1971. Etching and aquatint, 16” x 12."
On my way out to see Rich Timperio's winter extravaganza at Sideshow, I paused at Figureworks on North 6th Street in Williamsburg. Via email, this gallery had informed me that it was staging “Warrington Colescott: Death in Venice” (closed, alas, on the day I saw it, February 28).

I’d been curious about this artist  Read More 
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6 SOLOS—2 SPECIOUS, 1 STATELY, 3 WHIMSICAL

April 19, 2016
Tags: Carrie Moyer, Landon Metz, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Gaston Lachaise, Theodore Roszak, Hedda Sterns
Hedda Sterne, Machine Motor Light Blue, 1951. Oil on linen, 39 x 31 3/4 inches (99.1 x 80.6 cm). "Hedda Sterne" lower right on reverse, HS 134. © The Hedda Sterne Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by ARS, New York, NY.
On recent strolls through Chelsea & environs, I saw six shows, featuring three living artists (Carrie Moyer, Landon Metz & Tai-Shan Schierenberg), and three dead ones (Gaston Lachaise, Theodore Roszak, & Hedda Sterne). By a twist of fate, all the shows by the living artists have closed, while you can still get to those of the dead ones. Something here about how life may end, but art goes on… Read More 
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BULLETIN FOR NEW YORKERS

April 19, 2016
It's primary day in New York. Don't forget to vote, my fellow New Yorkers -- regardless of your preference! Polls open in the Big Apple till 9 pm.
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VIGEE LE BRUN AT THE MET: MUST I?

April 13, 2016
Tags: Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun
In its seemingly unrelenting search to come up with the “relevant,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art is giving us “Vigee Lebrun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France” (through May 15). This is the first retrospective in modern times of Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun (1755-1842), billed as “France’s last great royal portraitist,” and not so coincidentally, a woman Read More 
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