A tiny show of works on paper by Molly Mullahy at Bohdi Coffee on Head House Square has some pieces that strike gold. They are particular and peculiar, with intense attention to pattern. Although from photographic sources they become packed with emotional mark making and mystery. Hope I get to see more of these.
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Restoration puts the drama back in the Gross Clinic
By Peter Crimmins The restoration crew at the Philadelphia Art Museum likes to say that The Gross Clinic now looks like it did when it came off Thomas Eakins easel in 1875. Only partially true. The way it is presented in the Museum’s Perelman Building is nothing like the debut the painting had at the [...]
Off to New York this weekend
Hello, campers, Steve and I are slipping away to the summery ambiance of glass, steel and concrete in New York. We are hoping to do some museums (PS1; Whitney; Met) and maybe look for a hidden treasure or two. See you next week!
In focus
Gallery 339’s 10-artist summer show, In Review, doesn’t quite come together as a statement about contemporary photography—the fluffy press release extols the work’s “lively, complex, and intelligent dialogue about meaningful issues.” Nonetheless, the uniformly polished work is attractive and occasionally insightful. Kyohei Abe’s austere photographs of small objects on white tables show how fruitful technical [...]
“Matisse; Radical Invention 1913-17? at MoMA
Matisse; Radical Invention 1913-17 at the Museum of Modern Art through Oct. 11 is not for those take the artist at his word that a painting should be like a good armchair: familiar and comfortable, presumably. Rather it’s for those who like a challenge and find that almost a century later some of his work [...]
Weekly Update – Warhol’s celebrity photos
Andy Warhol loved to take pictures of people, especially celebrities. Warhol was a potent combination of socially awkward and a voyeur; he killed two birds with one stone by frequently taking refuge behind a camera lens in social situations, and his prodigious output shows it: At the time of his death in 1987, the pop [...]
Pause for something completely different
Suddenly at the University of Chicago I discovered I could no longer tolerate literary criticism. I had noticed that anthologies of poetry and anthologies of art criticism seemed to have the same authors–Ashbery, Benedikt, Schjeldahl, O’Hara, et cetera–and all these writers seemed to live in New York. So I transferred to Columbia and decided to [...]
Lovely Love park paintings
Ben Volta makes water into art. That doesn’t make him Jesus. But I have faith in what he’s doing with these kids in Love Park. They’re painting with water from the fountain and they’re loving it! See the short, sweet YouTube video after the jump.
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