"The Best Art In The World"
In Freud’s work, we can experience the point of view of an artist whose interior life matched his vocational command, both of them extraordinary. read more...
The focus on people is noteworthy - rare is the formal work substantially focused on visual or process concerns- nearly everything ties back to a political or human dimension. read more...
Within the painterly parlance of Crull, chance at first appears as having separated the work from the ego of the artist. read more...
It is perhaps the specificity of the Biennale’s location itself that most viscerally betrays the fact that while we have not yet changed our nature, we have changed nature itself. read more...
Curt Hoppe’s doubleheader, “Downtown Portraits,” at Howl! and Bernarducci Gallery, is a rogues’ gallery, so to speak. read more...
“I have to adapt to conditions,” he says. “It might be random, but you still have choices.” read more...
It is an atlas of pulp, recovered from the scene of prior note-taking and world-making. read more...
In a contemporary art gallery, it’s not often that Calder takes a backseat to ethnographic artwork but Venus Over Manhattan never fails to turns things on their head. read more...
Tibor de Nagy’s in-bloom showing would leave anyone wishing to peek into the pockets of the late Joe Brainard on any given day, which is only to underscore serious interest in and immense gratitude to this nimble painter. read more...
“I am piloting the piece of work inside of this molten plane that I’m working on. It’s an interactive community, that is the community of materials and myself.” read more...
Through the unlikely lens of a beach time activity, Nicholas Cueva reveals a hesitant connection to a deeper spirituality. read more...
