The Big Picture at the New York Academy of Art by Daniel Maidman - New York City

The New York Academy of Art is currently hosting a rare opportunity to see large-format paintings by a notable shortlist of contemporary painters: Vincent Desiderio, Eric Fischl, Neo Rauch, Jenny Saville and Mark Tansey.   read more...

David Altmejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery: Precarious and Extreme by Daniel Sherer - New York City

Both of these dimensions of his work, the eroticized and ruinous corporeality and the see-through plexiglas apparatus, figure prominently in the show at Andrea Rosen, vying for the attention of the astonished spectator, who as a result of the multiple stimuli emanating from the installations, literally does not know where to turn first.   read more...

Laurence Aëgerter at the Hermitage Amsterdam by Paul Laster -

A conceptualist who utilizes a variety of mediums, Laurence Aëgerter cleverly employed photography to appropriate and revitalize iconic paintings on view at the Hermitage Amsterdam during the 2010 exhibition Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage.   read more...

Marc Dennis Interview by Rena Silverman - New York City

"I was at the Met museum for the Courbet retrospective. It was held in this private room with a disclaimer at the entrance about excessive nudity. It was a darkly painted room. [Laughs.] They might as well have called that room a womb. Anyway, I wanted to see this painting because I think it must have been quite shocking at the time it was made."   read more...

Hudson of Feature Gallery Dies at 63 by Sam Trioli - New York City

On Sunday the art world lost one of its finest leaders. Hudson, the owner and founder of the gallery Feature Inc., passed away of natural causes at the age of 63.   read more...

February 2014: Annie Lapin: Various Peep Shows @ Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City - Los Angeles, California

How inconvenient that the term Impressionism is already taken. With her translation of images through fleeting particles of composite light, if Impressionism had no previous stylistic connotations, it would be a fitting word to characterize her recent work. The nine paintings in Various Peep Shows at Honor Fraser Gallery are filled with impressions and implications of scene, suggestions of landscape, and architecture, flowers, foliage and form -- all glimpsed through an almost abstract vernacular rendered by deliberate, strategic, application of paint.   read more...

February 2014: NY STUDIO VISIT: Frank Webster by Noah Becker -

February 2014: Kimberly Brooks: I Notice People Disappear by Daniel Maidman - New York City

Kimberly Brooks participates in this aspect of art, finding consolation for the grievous transience of life in the greatness of heart that comprehends everything that has passed before the eye. This comprehension is a kind of embrace, a testimony and act of love; it lasts as long as wakefulness and paint persist.   read more...

FROM THE VAULTS: July 2008, Interview with Walton Ford by Ajay Kurian - New York City

With this particular piece. I never heard the story of the Dürer rhino before this. It was a gift, the Portuguese got the rhino, sent it to Goa, sent it up to Lisbon. In Lisbon somebody did a drawing of it. Then it was to be given to the Pope as a gift and on its way to the Pope, the boat sank in the Mediterranean with the rhino on board.   read more...

FROM THE VAULTS: Interview with New York legend LA II by Kofi Fosu Forson - New York City

January 2014: Amir H. Fallah at The Third Line by Paul Laster -