This week, Daumier, Art Spiegelman, stolen art, José Clemente Orozco, Batkid, transgender poetry, Chinese censorship, and more.
November 17, 2013
Posted inOpinion
Weekend Words: Sell
This week, to keep a date at Christie’s, a major painting skipped a major museum retrospective. That museum would be the Guggenheim, and the painting would be Christopher Wool’s “Apocalypse Now” (1988): SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS. And sell it did.
Posted inArt
India’s Nasreen Mohamedi Belongs to Everyone
After the filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was called the “Japanese Godard” for what must have been the umpteenth time, he wittily replied by calling Godard “the French Oshima.” I thought of Oshima’s response once more when I went to Nasreen Mohamedi: Becoming One at the Talwar Gallery (September 13–November 23).
Posted inArt
Jake Berthot Doesn’t Need To Be Original
For the past twenty years Jake Berthot has painted his vision of the Catskill Mountains, where he has lived since 1994, after living in Manhattan, much of it on the Bowery, for thirty years. A painter of what he calls “small sensations,” Berthot has included fourteen paintings and six drawings completed in the last three years, in his current solo exhibition at Betty Cuningham (October 17–November 30, 2013).
