Film Review
The Sacrifices of the Single-Mother Artist
Artists in Residence tells the story of Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid, and Louise Kruger as they forged lives as working artists and single mothers in midcentury New York.
Lois Dodd
Book Review
An Ode to Lois Dodd
A new monograph on the nonagenarian American painter is a well of bliss.
Art
Lois Dodd's Life in Nature
From the mid-1960s, when Dodd first took her Masonite panels outdoors to paint, her production has been shaped by observation.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
"I used to think art was an escape from the grind of daily life, but this work tells me it might be more of an inoculation — pieces of the world absorbed in small amounts so we can go out and live in it."
Art
The Intertwined Lives of Artists in a Community in Rural Maine
The artists in Slab City Rendezvous influenced, nurtured, collaborated with, and painted one another, merging into one big happy family.
Art
A Dozen Memorable Exhibitions from 2018
Just because most museums in America are still asleep at the wheel, it doesn’t mean all is lost.
Art
Taking Stock of Painting Today
It is not every day that you can go to Chelsea and see more than 100 paintings by 46 artists within the space of a few blocks.
Art
The Difficulty of Getting the News: Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet Drummond, and the Narrative of Exclusion
What the exhibition of Drummond and Dodd proves is that the art world was more diverse in the 1960s than has been told.
Art
And you can send me dead flowers every morning…
It is the beginning of a new year and for some reason I have been thinking about flower paintings — perhaps prompted by the flower paintings that Edouard Manet made while he was dying.
Art
So Much Depends…
In 1952, Lois Dodd, along with four other artists, started the Tanager Gallery on East Fourth Street, near the Bowery, one of the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Lois Dodd
Lois Dodd has lived in a loft-studio on Second Street near the Bowery for over fifty years. When visiting her, one is struck by the independence of her lifestyle, as well as her work.
Art
Lois Dodd’s Paintings of the Ephemeral
In recent weeks, I have written about what I have defined as a grown-up painter, as opposed to what I called “the latest manifestation of a male adolescent painter, a clichéd archetype that gained traction in the Neo-Expressionist ‘80s, with the rise of Julian Schnabel, and has not been thrown over