Art
Irving Petlin’s Armada of Discontent
Whatever your life story, it is part of a larger history – this is what Petlin recognizes and is perhaps why he suppresses the personal or anecdotal.
John Yau
John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
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When a Painter Enacts a Ritual
There is a ceremonial aspect to the way Alison Hall makes these works, from the sanding of the plaster to the painting of the surface, to the drawing of the dots, to whatever she does next.
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The Undiscovered Ceramic Art of Stanley Rosen
Stanley Rosen’s ceramic sculpture is like a country that many of us never knew was there until now.
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Weekend Studio Visit: Victoria Civera on Broadway, Lower Manhattan
Exploring the work of an artist who rarely shows in New York.
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The Gritty Poetry of Elizabeth Murray’s Paintings
Murray was having fun while making art, which is practically a sin, even now.
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On the Road with Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.
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The Quietly Radical Paintings of George Schneeman
In a real and deep sense, Schneeman was an integral part of a historical moment taking place on the Lower East Side before gentrification.
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Three Postwar American Painters Who Were Too European for New York
Long before globalism became a buzzword, Norman Bluhm, San Francis, and Paul Jenkins joined the artists and intellectuals from around the world in postwar Paris.
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A Cerebral Portraitist‘s Unaccountable Neglect
In 1960, the art world was not ready to accept Marcia Marcus’s conceptual approach to portraiture.
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Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, New York City’s Greatest Flaneurs
Burckhardt and Denby are central figures in New York’s cultural history, even if they are not as well known as they should be.
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A Doodler Who Taught Himself to Paint
It’s hard not to get the feeling that Chuck Boyce is learning by doing, while, at the same time, making it up as he goes along.
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The Incessant Art of Kazuko Miyamoto
The key to Miyamoto’s work is repetition that never becomes routine, no matter how mechanical the process might seem.