Richard Shack
It is with a great deal of sadness that I learned through a friend of the death of Richard Shack. It is with stunned fingers that I type that, while
Utopía Posible?
Artist Felipe Dulzaides’ installation explores the history of the unfinished National Art Schools in Havana, which were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in 1961 and designed by Ricardo
On Elizabeth Catlett in Miami
BY Dinizulu Gene Tinnie By now, many of us have received the word that one of our greatest artists, Elizabeth Catlett, died this past Monday, April 2, in her sleep.
(A failed reef) Eclipse at Charest-Weinberg
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The Von Show: even if you never look at art in bars
In a season marked by the Whitney Biennial, with art fairs and benefits for non-profit art organizations in great profusion, with the blandishments of high toned connoisseurship spiced with
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Bearden, Cage, Dali and My Farmer Tan
A second article from someone I know in San Francisco, Calif., however, he’s in Tampa and provides this: Bearden, Cage, Dali and My Farmer Tan: “Yesterday I visited a show
Alcatraz
Alcatraz: “As I mentioned many times, I’m the third generation of my family born in the city of San Francisco. As a San Francisco native, I rarely indulged in typical
Tacita Dean at Norton Museum of Art
Dazzled, then puzzled. An absolutely captivating, visually and cerebrally stimulating, frequently quite hilarious few hours at the Tacita Dean show at the Norton–including a good hour chatting with the artist–and
Rehearsal for a review of the 2012 Whitney Biennial
Thursday, March 1, 2012 Omnipresence, Overdrive Elisabeth Sussman at the media preview (speaking for herself and co-curator Jay Sanders): “We share a common problem. We know exactly what we want
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Out of Complex Comes Simple: The Art of Harold Davis
Back in October, 2011 we featured the article, HDR is technique, not style, and The Role of the Artist because we like Harold Davis on multiple levels. His photography is
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