John Yau

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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.

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John Hoyland’s Vibrant Austerity

Hoyland did not make calm or meditative paintings.

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Michael Berryhill Will Have You Seeing Faces

Berryhill has the ability to bring you to a place where you can never be sure of what you’re looking at.

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The Raging Optimism of Sally Saul

Sally Saul makes sculptures that are funny, sweet, and tender – states we are not likely to encounter in art or even in life.

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Brenda Goodman Cuts Deep

Goodman’s recent work is distressing, captivating, and weirdly funny.

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The Pleasures of Slow Paintings

These paintings are what the artist Suzan Frecon calls “slow,” meaning that they reveal themselves quietly over time.