Alex
Katz
This cover story published in the May 1998 issue of Art in America
is devoted to an artist about whom David Cohen has written and lectured
extensively. He is currently at work on an essay about Katz
as Printmaker.
'A
Scaled-Up World in Art in America (May 1998)
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Jasper Johns
A profile of another giant of
contemporary American art, though hardly exuding the same exhileration
as the Katz piece!
‘Jasper
Johns' in Modern Painters (Summer 1996) pp 98-99 |
Anthony
Caro
A review of Caro’s 1998
exhibition at London’s National Gallery of his various sculptural
transpositions of old master paintings. It is published here
in advance of the exhibition of his Duccio variations at Marlborough
Gallery, New York, January 2001.
'Anthony
Caro invites you to lunch' Independent Saturday Magazine
(February 21 1998)
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Encounters:
New Art From Old
A distinguished group of international
artists, including Caro [above], were invited to reinterpret works
in the collection of the National Gallery, London.
'A
Contemporary Touch' in RA: The Royal Academy Magazine (Number
67, Summer 2000) |
Michael
Andrews
Previously unpublished, this profile
on the least well-known of the School of London group (Bacon, Freud,
Auerbach, Kitaj et al) is dusted down [it was “spiked”
some years ago] to honour the exhibition, “The School of London
and Their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians”
at the Yale Center for British Art”, which features several
fine works by Andrews. Andrews, incidentally, is also claimed
as an influence by painter Jock McFadyen, the subject of a book by
David Cohen to be published in Spring 2001.
A
Profile of Michael Andrews
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Bridget
Riley
This review, first published in
the on-line journal, ArtNet, on the occasion of the Veteran British
“Op” artist’s last museum show in London, is given
another airing here to coincide with Riley’s exhibitions at
Pace Wildenstein and the Dia Center in Fall 2000
'Eye-burn'
in ArtNet.com (posted July 28, 1999)
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Bruce
Pearson
And another ArtNet review, this time of a young American artist extending
the kind of inquiry found in Riley into the verbal domain
'Eye
Vibes' in ArtNet.com (posted June 8, 1998)
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Sensation
Cohen wrote on the controversial
exhibitions of Young British Artists in the Saatchi Collection staged
both in London and New York. When the exhibition was at the
Brooklyn Museum of Art he sparred with Deborah Solomon in the pages
of Slate, the on-line magazine, as they took opposing views of the
artistic merits of the show. Here is his review of the Royal
Academy’s exhibition, published in ArtNet.
'Letter
from London: Sensation' in ArtNet.com (posted October 24, 1997 |
Merlin
James
One of several reviews by David
Cohen devoted to this young British (though hardly YBA!) artist,
who now exhibits at Andrew Mummery Gallery in London and Brent Sikkema
in New York
'Painting
with attitude: the art of creative spontaneity' in The Independent
(Tuesday 27 August 1996)
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Tony
Cragg
A review from a few years ago of
then recent works by this leading British sculptor at the Whitechapel
Gallery in London
'Tony
Cragg' in Sculpture (September 1997 vol 16 No 7) p 87 |
Jane
Joseph
A catalogue essay about the British artist Jane Joseph, republished
here to coincide with her exhibition at the Hebrew Union College of
etchings inspired by Primo Levi
Fixity and Flow: The
Graphic Art of Jane Joseph' in Jane Joseph, Drawn in Place: Two
Decased of Drawing and Printmaking 1980-1987 (London: Morley Gallery,
1997) |
Clement
Greenberg
Cohen’s interest in the
theory of artwriting is extensive. He has written about Ruskin,
Roger Fry, Herbert Read, and Peter Fuller, and conducts an ongoing
series of dialogues with contemporary art critics about their work
at the New York Studio School, “The Craft of Criticism”.
In December 2000 and January 2001 he will interview Dave Hickey
and Michael Brenson, respectively. Here he reviews the posthumously
published aesthetic writings of the doyen of American formalist
criticism, Clement Greenberg
'But
is it Art?' in The New York Times Book Review (September
12, 1999)
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Interview:
Willard Boepple
The sculptor spoke with David Cohen at his studio in Bennington
Vermont this Summer. Cohen is preparing an article about Boepple
for Sculpture Magazine.
Previously
unpublished
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