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Rigor of Semblance: Louise Hamlin at the Hood Museum of Art — Review

Greg Masters

In the early 1980s, when I first became acquainted with her work, Louise Hamlin lived in Manhattan and painted scenes of her urban environment: a stretch of upper Broadway on a rainy night that accented reflections from the ...

Assembling the American Uncanny – Interview with Shannon Cartier Lucy

Marian St. Laurent

Marian St. Laurent and artist Shannon Cartier Lucy discuss the unexpected ecstasies of disorder The last time Shannon Cartier Lucy and I crossed paths was in the Lower East Side of New York City over twenty years ago, ...

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S02E12 – Tom McGlynn

Bernard Meisler

Painter and critic Tom McGlynn in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Tom McGlynn Mob T-Shirt copyright 1994 Tom McGlynn Small Standard 1, 36" x 36" copyright 2018 I had a good time talking to my old pal, painter ...

Shay Culligan Serigraphs and Paintings

Shay Culligan

Shay Culligan is an outspoken Irish-born Boston-based visual artist who refuses to participate in the official Art world, though he laughs that he'd also never be invited. Shay's criticisms of Art world elites & their compli...

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Elizabeth Kresch – New Oil Paintings

Elizabeth Kresch

Painter Elizabeth Kresch is showing some of her oil paintings, most created within the last two years (while some are from "another time/universe") at 105 Henry Street in New York City. The opening is Friday, March 8, from 5...

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Portraits by Geoffrey Stein

Geoffrey Stein

I paint to find out what I think about the world: to discover the things I do not have words for. I savor the slips of the hand that express one’s unconscious feelings. I am interested in the tension between abstraction an...

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Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Franklin Mount

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern At the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, through July 23, 2017 Art and celebrity meet, again, in this exhibition, under the guise of modernity. Actually, there is nothing more modern ...

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Max Beckmann in New York

Franklin Mount

Max Beckmann in New York At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through February 20, 2017 These days, you can’t get away from references to Weimar era figures, in art, politics, or anywhere else. In that Weim...

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A Visit with June Leaf and Robert Frank

Erik La Prade

On a particular February 2011, afternoon, I spent part of the day in June Leaf's studio, watching her work, and listening to her talk about her work. As I sat in a wooden office chair, I watched Leaf busily untangling some s...

The Vampires of Pattaya Beach

David Huberman

Cat woke me up. I immediately looked at my dollar fifty alarm clock. It was twelve noon, with the sun shining through our windows. My little sweetie was jumping up and down like a Mexican jumping bean, spitting and cursing i...

Jessica Anne Schwartz: Instinctive Formalist

Alan Kaufman

Jessica Anne Schwartz, a purely Left Coast Cali artist, decided, last year, to up and plant herself in the very heart of New York's Chelsea art district where she maintains a large studio filled with her paintings, drawings ...

Marine 1–10

Max Blagg

A collaboration between Max Blagg and Alex Katz for the Marine Series’ Exhibition Catalogue, Jablonka Gallery, Berlin, 2008. This piece is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Slow Dazzle: Poems & Prose For 23 Artists, pu...

Love and Strangulation

Carl Watson

The philosophers of the old romances say, and many specialists today concur, that desire is nothing more than the result of a necessary and continuous projection of the self into others; an unattainable wholeness is represen...

The Calf

D. James Smith

Child of a dying wind it lay In the muck and hot, blond grass Below the dam and its strangled creek That my boyhood friend and I Crossed that morning, determined To flee the nun’s black habits and ink, To claim ...

Contours of the Irreal: Paintings by David de Biasio

Erik Noonan

Although it may strike a theorist as paradoxical, the artist’s sole response to a moment such as ours—with its ideological cowardice, its reflexive violence, its prurient spectatorship—is always to exult in using the m...