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Lucas Samaras in Claes Oldenburg’s Circus: Ironworks/Fotodeath at the Reuben Gallery, February 1961. © Robert R. McElroy/Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York
As this landmark show enters its last week at Pace Gallery, a profile of the man behind the camera ...
 
Installation shot, Doug Wheeler: January 17 - February 25, 2012. Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery
The psychology behind Light and Space art and how it sensitizes us to subtleties ...
 
Anni Albers, Untitled Tapestry, based on a 1933 design. Hand knotted wool, hand twisted wool and silk, 72 x 116 inches. Courtesy of Loretta Howard Gallery
A rich historic show at Loretta Howard Gallery, up through October 29 ...
 


Hope Gangloff, The Trouble with Paradise, 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 64 x 81 inches. Collection of Cynthia and Stuart Smith

The Aldrich at a Crossroads


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


Lynne Woods Turner, Untitled (9072), 2010. Oil on linen over panel, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Danese

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


Robert Rauschenberg, Short Circuit (Combine Painting), 1955. Oil, fabric and paper on wood supports and cabinet with two hinged doors containing a painting by Susan Weil and a reproduction of a Jasper Johns Flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant, 40-3/4 x 37-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

Too absorbed by the future to bother about the past: Robert Rauschenberg


If Johns is our Mallarmé, Rauschenberg is our Walt Whitman.


Gina Werfel, Collision, 2010. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the Artist

Gina Werfel’s Persistence of Vision


2011 essay reposted with new show of paintings at Prince Street Gallery


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“Like Renoir, he doesn’t only paint with his brush”: Raoul Middleman’s Baltimore Babes


Exhibition at Kouros Gallery runs through April 2.


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Arthur Danto: Artist


Musings on the youthful drawing and printmaking activities of an august philosopher and critic.


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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


Margaret Lanzetta, Karnal 0184, 2009. Oil and enamel on panel, 24 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the Artist.

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


Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud VII, 1971. Cut-and-pasted typed text and painted paper on paper, 2-1/2 inches x 12 feet 6 inches. Reproduced from the book under review

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


Sandi Slone, The Buxom Eye, 2009. Oil, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 66 inches. Courtesy of the Artist

The Buxom Eye of Sandi Slone


Essay from the artist’s exhibition at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, October 7 to 30, 2010