
The Aldrich at a Crossroads
Portraiture shows at the Aldrich occasion a portrait of the institution itself

The Canon is Under Fire: What Press Releases Tell You, and What They Don’t
The abundance of self-anointed anti-establishment shows reminds us that nothing in the art world is sacred

Too absorbed by the future to bother about the past: Robert Rauschenberg
If Johns is our Mallarmé, Rauschenberg is our Walt Whitman.

Gina Werfel’s Persistence of Vision
2011 essay reposted with new show of paintings at Prince Street Gallery

“Like Renoir, he doesn’t only paint with his brush”: Raoul Middleman’s Baltimore Babes
Exhibition at Kouros Gallery runs through April 2.

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

Psychodrama: Modern Art As Group Therapy
The introduction to his latest book with essays on Karel Appel, Louise Bourgeois, Lucian Freud, Helmut Newton and others

A Postmodern Garden: The Work of Margaret Lanzetta
The artist’s show at College of the Holy Cross’s Cantor Gallery in Worcester, MA closes December 15

The Figure as Hieroglyph: Nancy Spero’s “First Language”
An extract from the author’s new book as the Nancy Spero retrospective opens in Paris

The Buxom Eye of Sandi Slone
Essay from the artist’s exhibition at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, October 7 to 30, 2010




