Podcast
Audrey Flack and the Last of the New York School
For over 70 years, Flack has been making art in New York and boy does she have stories to tell.
New York School
Books
The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo
Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.
Art
The Visual Music of a New York School Painter's Late Works
It was once a common notion that abstract painting was analogous to music.
Art
America’s Grand Gestures Reign Supreme Again in Basel
BASEL, Switzerland — Fifty-five years ago, the exhibition The New American Painting arrived at the Kunsthalle Basel. It was the first stop on a yearlong tour that touted the work of seventeen Abstract Expressionists before eight European countries — the first comprehensive exhibition to be sent to E
Art
“In Painting We Discover Demons; If We Don't Exorcise Them They Devour Your Ass!”
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Traditionally, art history is contained on objects — the artifacts that artists leave behind and populate our museums and galleries, offering aesthetic arguments, disagreements, and manifestos. But the messier, less packaged-up side of art history is hidden in the people who live
Poetry
The Obscenities Are in Quotes
Whatever became of the New York School? There was a first generation, the last avant-garde according to some (but not so last that there couldn’t be a second generation and a third, and …) as whatever it was that defined the school as a school, beyond the simple fact of friendship, dissolved into th
Art
Jackson Pollock and John Cage: An American Odd Couple
Jackson Pollock and John Cage are legends in American history. In the centennial year of both artists’ births, two exhibitions now on view in New York celebrate their work and underline the fact that even after their deaths, their influence continues to play an important role in how we understand, i
Opinion
Veterans of the New York School Reflect on the 1950s
The archival footage features a number of artists in the New York school (Alcopley, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joe Stefanelli, John Stephan, Robert Richenburg and Will Barnet) discussing life in New York's 1950s art world.
Art
The Plastic Bag as Artistic Muse
In Patrick Griffin's recent exhibition at The Journal Gallery in Williamsburg, Common Courtesy, he focused on an unusual subject matter: the plastic bag. If you live in a major city then you are more than familiar with these little guys; they accumulate under your sink, get stuck in that storm drain
Art
A Letter to Merce Cunningham
Dear Merce Cunningham, As your company comes to a close this winter, I have been on the look out for all things Merce. Wanting to understand you better and hoping that I could still understand you even after you have passed, I visited Charles Atlas's video tribute to you now at the New Museum not ju