
Arthur Danto: Artist
Musings on the youthful drawing and printmaking activities of an august philosopher and critic.

The Price of Beauty: Two novels set in the art market
By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham; An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin

Strong on the Margins: AbEx New York at MoMA
Through April 25, the show draws exclusively from the museum’s collection.

Public Art and Its Discontents. Julie Mehretu at Goldman Sachs
Visible from the street, but inaccessible close up, Mural like Goldman Sachs itself is powerful but private

Seeing the World Differently: Bill Berkson’s lectures on art and poetry
A review of Bill Berkson’s “Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006″ from Cuneiform Press

Transcending Suburbia: An exceptional show of Gary Stephan
Gary Stephan’s ‘Painting And’ was at Woodstock’s Kleinert/James Arts Center this summer.

Curved Forms, Out of the Loop: Portugal’s Nadir Afonso
Exhibition continues at Museu do Chiado through October 3

Silently Still Among Us: The beauty of Bill Beckley
Bill Beckley at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, May 15 to July 30, 2010

Painting Abstraction by Bob Nickas
In the 1980s, when painting was commonly said to be dead, many group shows were devoted to abstraction.


