Art
The Contrarian Modernism of Fairfield Porter
In these paintings, as in so much of Porter’s work, American loneliness coincides with American leisureliness, often uneasily.
Fairfield Porter
Art
You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors
Connors has arrived at a synthesis of what, up until now, has been a stylistically identifiable but rather diverse output.
Art
The Vitality of Everyday Things in Fairfield Porter’s Paintings
Porter's paint handling was gestural but exacting, never fancy, and always attending to the experience of looking.
Art
The Poetic Grit of a Landscape Painter and an Outspoken Critic
I was at Catching the Light, Lois Dodd’s retrospective at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the August day I got the news that critic Robert Hughes had passed away at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York. For many, myself included, Hughes’s prose did for art criticism what Shakespeare did fo