The artist’s paintings at Peter Freeman, Inc. move language from mere representation to lived experience.
Mel Bochner
Drivel, Drool, Babble, Blabber: An Evening with Mel Bochner
The highly influential conceptual artist Mel Bochner recapitulates his 50-year dalliance with the English thesaurus.
Blitz! Jenny Holzer’s Dallas Cowboys Memorabilia Is on Sale
When Dallas Cowboys fans turned up to their team’s new stadium for the 2009–10 pre-season, they were greeted with a collection of Texas-size, blue-chip contemporary art.
Seeing Enough Shows on the LES
A generic survey of New York’s Lower East Side galleries, perused at random on the first week of November, 2010, including observations from a viewer completely outside the art world.
Jerry Saltz often ridicules artists for not going to see enough shows; that they have several cookie-cutter reasons: too busy, not wanting to overexpose themselves in the scene, fear of polluting their unique and singular artistic vision, etc. Well, I set the fear of contaminating my art aside and I went around the New York City’s Lower East Side gallery circuit on Saturday to bring you the report.
Sometimes I get emotional over fonts …
If “Flickr Is the New Museum” (2008) what happens to the way we interpret art? Understand art? Live with art? We have the right and the capability to put little JPGs together that seem to make sense to us for whatever reason.