tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209385622012-01-23T08:15:17.083-05:00Where is Utopia now that we need it?<br>Musings on possibilities for the future.Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13759499295301691764noreply@blogger.comBlogger911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20938562.post-71812445456225628062011-12-13T09:16:00.007-05:002011-12-13T09:28:31.220-05:00

Images from the opening presentation at CERN announcing the current results on the search for the Higgs Boson.

Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13759499295301691764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20938562.post-25079898257166982282010-08-20T11:01:00.006-04:002010-08-20T11:09:38.684-04:00

Just another simple composition analysis. Horizontal and vertical divisions into thirds and quarters and the connecting diagonals, along with the Golden Section (technically 1/ϕ = 1/.618 = .618) from each corner.Jean Honoré FragonardThe Stolen Kiss (1780s) Hermitage Museum, St PetersburgClick to enlarge

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The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy at the Metropolitan through May 23,2010. An exhibition of the thirty nine carved alabaster mourners by the artists Jean de La Huerta and Antoine Le Moiturier, each approximately 17 inches high and dating from the mid 15th Century. This is the first time that "these figures will be seen together outside of France and provides an

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At the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), Exhibition dates: January 29–March 10, 2010. I liked the Tino Sehgal pieces very much but I am not interested in writing a review. Instead I am writing my responses and reactions to the piece in the comments section.London-born, Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal constructs situations with people that defy the traditional contexts of

Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13759499295301691764noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20938562.post-35711456301525967552009-11-06T13:22:00.007-05:002010-02-22T14:12:48.260-05:00

The Alma Thomas on the left is rotated 90°.

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Who really painted Portrait of a Venetian GentlemanThis drama reminds me of a long forgotton TV show, What's my Line? Whatever, Tyler Green has a nice series of posts on Modern Art Notes about the latest round in the attribution of this painting. Personally I think the attribution to Cariani is wrong, but what do I know? I'm no expert on the period. To satisfy my curiosity I ran it through the

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Residual influences from the academy and good eyeballs at work here.Paul CezanneLarge Bathers1899-1906Oil on canvas81 7/8 x 98 in (208 x 249 cm)Philadelphia Museum of ArtThe yellow divisions are the Golden Ratio's of the height and width (.382 and .618). The reddish lines are 1/4 and 1/2 divisions and the 1/2 diagonals. The green and cyan are 1/3, 1/6, 1/9 divisions and the 1/3 diagonals.

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This panel was the central section of a polyptych. It may be one of Piero's earliest extant works. Side panels and a predella were painted in the early 1460s. Piero della FrancescaThe Baptism of Christ1450'sMedium: Egg on poplarDimensions: 65.75 x 45.7 in (167 x 116 cm)Collection of the The National Gallery UKThe yellow divisions are the Golden Ratio's of the height and width (.382 and .618). The

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One of Piero's little gems. I moved the boundary in a bit to allow for the decorative architectural borders.PIERO della FRANCESCA Resurrection1463-65Mural in fresco and temperaDimensions: 88.6 x 78.75 in (225 x 200 cm)Pinacoteca Comunale, SansepolcroThe yellow divisions are the Golden Ratio's of the height and width (.382 and .618). The reddish lines are 1/4 and 1/2 divisions and the 1/2

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Another compositional workup on the painting The Adoration of the Kings by Jan Gossert (aka Mabuse) Jan GossaertThe Adoration of the Kings1510-15Medium: Oil on woodDimensions: 69.76 x 63.5 in (177.2 x 161.3 cm)Collection of the The National Gallery UKThe yellow divisions are the Golden Ratio's of the height and width (.382 and .618). The reddish lines are 1/4 and 1/2 divisions and the 1/2

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It was forty years ago, July 20 1969 that man first set foot on the moon. "It's some kind of dust I can kick it with my feet"View of Earth rising over Moon's horizon taken from Apollo 11 spacecraft7/16/1969This view of the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon was taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smuth's Sea on the nearside. Coordinates of the

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"Everlasting Nothing Less" an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the young British artist Stuart Semple is on view at the Anna Kustera Gallery, 520 W. 21st Street, NYC, from May 16 through July 31, 2009 (extended date)I first ran across Stuart Semple's paintings in a 2007 group exhibition "The Black Market." The earlier paintings attracted my attention for their graphic styling and skillful

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It was a hot LA day in July of 1962, when by chance I found myself at the Ferus Gallery and saw my first ever exhibition of POP Art, the Andy Warhol Soup Cans. It was a long time ago but my reaction was something along the lines of "wow these are cool." I took home the little letter-sized poster announcing the show.Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962Synthetic polymer paint

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Absolutely stunning. A must see exhibitionFrancis Bacon: A Centenary RetrospectiveThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtMay 20, 2009–August 16, 2009Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floorAdditional pictures are on the Met website linked above.Francis Bacon (British, 1909–1992)Study after Velazquez, 1950 Oil on canvas;77 15/16 x 54 in. (198 x 137.2 cm)The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collection© 2009 The

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New paintings by Sigmar Polke at Michael Werner Gallery, from May 6 through June 19, 2009. The gallery is located at 4 East 77th Street, NYC.The reproductions don't do these paintings justice. It is an impressive exhibition.Sigmar PolkeThe Illusionist (Lens Painting)2007mixed media on fabric86 1/2 x 118 inches, 220 x 300 cm POL 317Sigmar PolkeUpgrade (Lens Painting)2007mixed media on fabric31 1/2

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Wow! this is a must see exhibition, along with the late Picasso's, the best of the season.David Zwirner is presenting two concurrent exhibitions of Alice Neel’s work, the first since announcing its representation of her Estate. • Alice Neel: Selected Works at David Zwirner, at 533 West 19th Street, May 14 through June 20, 2009. • Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s at Zwirner & Wirth, at 32 East 69th

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Regrouping: art world professionals examine the art marketWednesday, April 22 Symposium: 7:00-8:30pmKatie Murphy Auditorium, FIT7th Avenue at 27th Street (d building)This sounded like it might be interesting:Following years of wild expansion and commercial vitality, the last six months in the art world - as in all business sectors - have seen rocky auction and art fair sales, abrupt gallery

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John Waters's exhibition "Rear Projection" at Marianne Boesky Gallery from April 3rd through May 2, 2009. The exhibition consists of thirty-six photographs and four sculptures and runs concurrently with his film "Rear Projection" which will be on view at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles from April 11 – May 23, 2009.This was a nice exhibition, worth a second visit when maybe I can take some better

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An exhibition of note: Espèces d’espaces at Yvon Lambert: A group exhibition featuring works by Robert Barry, Louise Bourgeois, Michael Brown, Stefan Brüggemann, André Cadere, Carter, Enrico Castellani, Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Bethan Huws, On Kawara, Zilvinas Kempinas, Anselm Kiefer, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Jill Magid, Brice Marden, Jonathan Monk, Roman Opalka, Christian Vetter

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Mitchell-Innes & Nash has a very nice exhibition of seldom seen works by the POP artist Alan d'Archangelo (1930-1998) The exhibition runs from April 2 – May 2, 2009.This is an exhibition which helps to expand the narrow confines imposed by ideas of a "signature style" It was clear from the works exhibited that there is more to d'Archangelo's work than a centerline. An important exhibition which

Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13759499295301691764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20938562.post-26836843149541731502009-03-29T22:50:00.006-04:002009-03-29T23:46:32.340-04:00

Louise Fishman exhibits new paintings at the Cheim and Read Gallery from March 26 through May 2, 2009.Louise has been painting for awhile and her works reflect it. I want to reintroduce a word into the vernacular for describing paintings, and that word is "tough." Louise Fishman makes "tough paintings" in a period when most painters don't have a clue what this means. Ms. Fishman's paintings are

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Martin Borowski exhibition of new paintings at Stellan Holm Gallery March 7, through April 30, 2009.Martin Borowski was born in Hoyerswerd, East Germany in 1970 and studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Art. Somehow this seemed relevant to me in retrospect, an awareness of an artists roots in place and time, My first impression of Mr Borowski's paintings evoked memories of Edward Hopper, not so

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This was the event of the season.   The exhibition "Better History" opened amid ageless fanfare last night at the 7ELEVEN Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition was curated by Nick Poe & 7Eleven Gallery. The gallery is located at 169 10th Avenue at West 20th street and the exhibition runs through April 11th 2009.Artists featured: Tim Barber, Sebastian Bear-McClard, Sebastian Black, Maximilian Bode,

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This is the residue from a walk through the Scope Art Fair in NYC. My favorite exhibitor was the heliumcowboy artspace's Losy Data Lab project. Heliumcowboy is the part of the "cutting edge" that gets left on the stone.The Lossy Data Lab opened its doors to the public yesterday at the opening of SCOPE art fair in New York. Until Sunday, march 8, we invite you to take part in several research

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“What We Call Progress Is This Storm”, a group of new paintings by Christopher Lowry Johnson at the Edward Winkleman Gallery Located at 637 West 27th Street in Chelsea. The exhibition runs through March 28, 2009.Christopher Lowry JohnsonShadow 2008Oil on canvas24" x 40"Johnson is a skilled painter with a deft and sensitive touch. His recent paintings call into question the polarities between

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Currents, Josh Smith's exhibition of new paintings and collages is brilliant and challenging. At Luhring Augustine Gallery - 531W 24th Street NYC - through March 14th. Gallery websiteIn this time of turbulent change we should expect the art world to be no different, "what was" has moved into history and a new group of artists are building a new foundation for the next twenty years. At just barely

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Brendan Cass exhibits new paintings at the Stellan Holm Gallery in Chelsea NYC. The exhibition runs through March 4, 2009. The gallery is located at 524 W. 24th Street, website www.stellanholm.comBrendan Cass is half the age of Larry Poons, and the younger artist seems to have little difficulty in essentially destroying all the old color field abstraction paradigms. Brendan's paintings utilize

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Larry Poons has a nice exhibition of new paintings at the Danese Gallery in Chelsea NYC. The exhibition runs through March 14, 2009.Last man standing wins the prize. Larry Poons is arguably the best of the color field painters who had their start in the late sixties. This is the first chance I have had in awhile to see a complete exhibition of his paintings and I took the opportunity to do what

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Carolee Schneemann Painting, What It Became at the P.P.O.W Gallery through March 28, 2009. The exhibition was curated by Maura Reilly with illustrated color catalog and essay. Please note the P.P.O.W Gallery has moved to 511 W. 25th Street, 3rd Floor. The gallery is in the glass fronted gallery building, nearer 10th avenue than 11th."I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter.

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A week ago I attended a number of openings in Chelsea. Of the lot, the one exhibition which stood out was Anya Kielar at Casey Kaplan. I went back the following Saturday for a second look and I came away reinforcing my feeling that this is an important exhibition. One continuing issue raised in the art world is how we deal with pluralism without trying to force everything back in one single box,

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Andrew WyethChristina's World 1948Tempera on gessoed panel32 1/4 x 47 3/4" (81.9 x 121.3 cm).Collection: Museum of Modern Art, NYC

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A must see, for anyone with an interest in abstract painting, is the Al Held exhibition at the Paul Kasmin Gallery from November 10, 2008 thru January 10, 2009. The most recent painting in the Paul Kasmin exhibition was painted in 1985 well before the computer was a tool available to most artists. The paintings were drawn by hand using the same methods developed in the Renaissance. For example

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I've been thinking about how I want to approach writing this blog. I am not really interested in writing criticism, it's a mind numbing task which takes the passion out of the art for me. I do look at a lot of art online, on a daily basis and I have decided that I will start posting what I am looking at, online and in the galleries. In 1937 Picasso was 56, and Spain was embroiled in a civil war.

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Stellan Holm Gallery has a group show titled "The Unforgiven" which is on exhibition from November 8 through December 6.In the back of the gallery there is a very large, almost white painting by Dan Colen, "Miracle on 34th Street". It is a miracle. It is one of the best paintings by a young artist I have ever seen. The grayish white Olitski I recently saw at Paul Kasmin pales by comparison. It is

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Lento. Maybe.It is because she looks like my grandmother.Or whatever, it's over a century ago,Or it is now, fogged in short memory,Maybe.Lola.Pablo Ruiz Picasso  &nbsp—  "Portrait de Lola Ruiz Picasso"[4/15~5/15]/1901 &nbsp—  Oil on wood14 x 8.75in. - 35.3 x 22.2 cmPicasso in 1901 at the age of 20.

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Biff Elrod, "Met Steps 2006", 2006 oil on canvas, 48 X 48 in, (122 x 122 cm)Everybody saw it coming, nobody saw it coming. Really, in truth, it is unlikely that most artists and gallerists would have been able to foresee conditions becoming as bad as they are today. High ranking officials within the government were blind-sided by economic events because they chose to ignore the warnings which

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Claes Oldenburg, "Fried egg in pan", 1961Painted plaster and aluminum frying pan - 2 x 15.7 x 8 in. Lot #189 - Est. $40-60k - Sold For $52,500Saturday update: After taking a closer look at the results on Artnet.com and Chelsea Art Galleries.com it's clear that the fall auctions have been a disaster.Carol Vogel writes in the NY Times, "The Warhol market has been disappointing all week, and

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Matt Mendelsohn, November 4, 2008Copyright 2008 The New York Times CompanyThe poignant photograph above by Matt Mendelsohn accompanied his brief commentary, Memorial Day in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times. I used to be a photojournalist. And so Tuesday night, as some 200,000 Chicagoans gathered around a brightly lighted stage under the gaze of the world’s news media, I headed to the

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Barack Hussein Obama has been elected as the 44th president of the United States. He won!Barack Obama won 52% of the popular vote nationally, and 62% of the vote in New York state.  Here in New York City he won an astounding 86% of the vote. As you might guess, the city came alive last night, people were partying in the streets from the Lower East Side to Harlem.The crowds partying in the streets

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It's can only be a democracy if you vote.

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Visual Music.This was a beautiful exhibition of new works by the Minimalist sculptor John McCracken. Of all the sculptors who found their start in the 1960's John McCracken has consistently made the most enigmatically beautiful objects. Objects which exist almost solely as a container for color. Each work in this exhibition is composed of a number of elements, executed in his characteristic style

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Why is he smiling?As election day draws near, it becomes increasingly clear, the opposition warriors are desperate with answers eluding their grasp. Sarah's winking on her knees, her plea is quite dramatic, trying anything to please, how far will this desperation grow? Despite frenzied visions of racial fistfights, the robocalls fomenting fear, percentages slip away, far greater fears are holding

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"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more."Do current financial events leave you feeling powerless?Email the "I'm mad as hell" message to your senator. You can find your senator here. http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Select your state from the left pop-up menu.There will be a link to contact information for each senator, go there and find the email

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RITA ACKERMANN "Don't Give Me Salad (Nurses)" at Andrea Rosen Gallery Sep. 13 - Oct. 18, 2008. I've followed her work for awhile, it's worth a look.Rita Ackerman - Installation View

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Joanna Pousette-Dart Sep. 9 - Nov. 1, 2008. at Moti HassonI was out on the nice post-apocalypse Saturday with another painter and as we were working our way back towards 23rd street to catch the 6 train we made "one last stop" and went in to see Joanna Pousette-Dart's exhibition exhibition. After a long day in Chelsea, we were tired and a little burned out. It turned out to be a fine way to end

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Matthew Day Jackson exhibition Terranaut Sculptures and PaintingsPeter Blum Chelsea - 526 West 29th Street - Sep. 12 to Nov. 1, 2008

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Keith Tyson, Fractal Dice: at the Pace Gallery545 West 22nd Street. - Sep. 5 to Oct. 4, 2008This is an interesting exhibition both visually and conceptually. The basic idea as described by the Pace PR people.In his newest body of work, Fractal Dice, conceptual artist Keith Tyson explores how decision-making in the creative process can be surrendered to and achieved by chance. The work on view

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This is a stub to mark the financial meltdown that occurred last week.In a previous post The Party's Over I suggested the art market was going to contract over the next few years. According to Crain"s New York Business, the Spreading pain will cost 90,000 jobs Retailers will be hit hard, particularly those in the luxury sector, as out-of-work Wall Streeters trade down to mid-tier stores from

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This entire post is a speculation on what might possibly be happening now, it's an open topic, subject to debate.For a few years now I have been mulling over what the novelist William Gibson described as a "nodal point in history." The idea of a new century, not to mention a new millennium, piqued my interest as a focal point for some kind of change. Alas, this simple numerical transition to a

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Contrary to the naysayers, over the past couple of years I have continued to be optimistic about the art market, always realizing that eventually the party had to end. Well, the party is over and I expect that the art market, both the auction markets and the retail markets are entering a period of severe contraction similar to the one experienced in the early part of the 1990's.Housing starts

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This is an absolutely breathtaking exhibition of paintings. As we enter the new millennium, Neo Rauch is the most important painter working today. Neo RauchArmdrücken 2008 Oil on canvas 19.69 x 15.75 inches, 50 x 40 cm Neo Rauch and Peter Doig are two of only a few serious painters who began their careers during the wasteland years of painting at the end of the last century and managed to escape

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At the Jack Shainman Gallery May 22 - Jul 3, 2008.Thirty or so years ago, when I was an emerging artist, a young man came up to me and after a brief conversation, asked if he could come by for a studio visit, to which I agreed. That young man, just starting art school, was Kerry James Marshall. For some ineluctable reason I remembered our meeting across the years of lost and faded recollections.

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Mother earth let humankind us know who's boss in the last week or two. The death toll from the cyclone which ravaged Burma, aided by its criminal and inept military government, is approaching 78,000 by the latest count. As if a cyclone wasn't enough, the most severe earthquake in 58 years hit China approximately a week later.I can relate to the unnatural feeling of the ground moving. I still

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Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82 Robert Rauschenberg1976 CatalogueSmithsonian Institution. Robert RauschenbergCanyon, 1959Combine painting: Oil, pencil, paper, wood, metal, photograph, fabric on canvas, plus buttons, mirror, stuffed eagle, cardboard box, pillow, paint tube.81 3/4 x 70 x 24 in. (207.6 x 177.8 x6 1 cm)Collection Mr and Mrs Sonabend, Paris Robert

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Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976May 04, 2008 - September 21, 2008 The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd StreetThis is the best Modern Painting exhibition in New York right now. I have too many thoughts about this event to fit them all into one article. At the moment I have seen the exhibition only once and I want to take more time to view it

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Or how I learned to love the bomb.Where to start? I was out on the town last night. The Saint Clair Cemin's exhibition was opening at Sikkema Jenkins and I wanted to say hello. Saint Clair Cemin Apollo, 2008Bronze72.05 x 39.37 x 19.69 inches183 x 100 x 50 cmIt was a lovely spring evening, and there were a lot of openings, so I took the time a walk around. I made it as far as Pace on 25th Street

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Recent Work - April 4, 2008 - May 3, 2008 Awhile back I stumbled upon a small group of Thomas Nozkowski's paintings on paper and was impressed by their inventiveness and visual variety. His current exhibition of paintings on canvas and paper at Pace continues the investigation I saw in the earlier works. Nozkowski's paintings are abstractions in the classical meaning of the word. They appear to

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Jean TingleyUnknown Title, 1960's?I was just wandering through the Met and this Tingley sculpture caught my eye. I didn't write down any of the details and strangely, the Metropolitan doesn't give any via the web search. Odd. Whatever, it's a really nice piece, the precursor of a lot of later explorations in this direction. My first studio was across the street from a mom and pop junk store. This

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Note: the exhibition, Jasper Johns: Gray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes this Sunday May 4th."The exhibition examines the use of the color gray by the American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) between the mid-1950s and the present. It brings together more than 120 paintings, reliefs, drawings, prints, and sculptures from American and international collections." [Met PR]Two exhibitions I've

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It’s the game show answer to the question, "who writes FutureModern?" As an artist working in relative solitude I started writing FutureModern two years ago as a way of interacting with a larger audience. On a hot day in the summer before last, I was walking through the cool dim room in the Met where the Christmas tree is now. It’s a gallery filled with artworks from centuries ago, artworks that

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Tiny Sculpture Brings $57 Million, that's the AP headline on Dec. 5, 2007. Funny how money grabs all the attention. Take a look at this small miracle of hand fashioned stone. Forget about the money. Just look at this swirling form, human and lion merged, poses intertwined, what was this magician thinking? This mythic woman-lioness is facing us down with a penetrating sideways stare, her arms

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One has to imagine the players were sweating bullets after the November 7th evening sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's failed to make the low end of the pre-sale estimates. What a difference a week made, the Post War and Contemporary Art sales came in strong, and everyone seemed to be breathing a sigh of relief. This feeling of well being may be premature, as the auction markets are

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Whew, I was paying attention, and auction week felt like a ride on the Cyclone, the anticipation, then that awful sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, and finally the exhilaration at the end. 11/6/2007 - Christie's evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art came in at $395 million, nicely between the pre-sale estimates of $348 million to $486 million. Henri Matisse’s 1937 painting "

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Runaway for the new century, brilliant.          Style.com: Balenciaga - Spring 2008

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This weekend I visited, for the second time, Keith Tyson's impressive sculptural installation the "Large Field Array" at the Pace Gallery in NYC This is one of the best exhibitions by a young artist I have ever seen. The exhibition closes October 20th. Readers who live in or near NYC should make a effort to take in this show before it closes, go with a friend. ----------The Large Field Array is

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There has been a considerable amount of speculation over the fate of the current art market. Given the unrest in the financial markets at the current time, I suspect the question actually being asked is whether or not the art market is about to crash. Certainly there have been signs of excess which one might expect to be followed by a contraction in the marketplace, but this alone is not enough

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Hans, an artist and blogger from Tbilisi, Georgia, posed the question in the comments section of the previous post which I found interesting. Hans asks, "But is a painting on screen still a painting, a translated painting ?"I would respond: No, it’s a digital reproduction of a painting, but that’s the obvious answer. As painters we have always had to rely, much of the time, on reproductions of

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I made an comment in my previous post suggesting that an aspect of the aesthetic experience might be genetic trait which might have passed down through the ages in a Darwinian fashion. Over the last few months I began reading in the fields of neurobiology and cognitive science to examine whether or not my observation might have some merit. At this point, I still don’t really know the answer but

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The Aesthetic ExperiencePainting is a visual art, it communicates through sight. Although it may use symbolic elements (images, or other symbolic tokens) as part of its construct, paintings communicative power occurs when it evokes an ‘aesthetic experience’ as a result of the sum total of these constructs in both their visual and conceptual (symbolic) forms. Some will argue that the visual is

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All assumptions about the stylistic evolution in painting for the last 100 years are suspect. The idea that there is somehow "progress" in stylistic evolution is false. What one might see as the evolution of painting in the twentieth century, the popular path, Picasso to Pop, is only part of the story. It was built on the idea of the "modern", the constant roiling change of styles leading into

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Picking up on a couple of recent blog posts about "Art as Investment" by Modern Art Obsession and Lisa Hunter Both cite a Merrill Lynch July 17th investment report A simple risk reduction tool: time [pdf] and Linda Sandler's Bloomberg reportage on the topic. Linda Sandler is an astute writer on the economic side of culture and she is the one who concluded "Art is one of the worst ways for

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This commentary started off as an answer to a question Ed Winkleman asked in The Lost Lifestyle "What I'm most interested in here is whether a lifestyle has been lost and if so does that matter and if so why?"I got to thinking about the implications of what he was referring to, in essence the hypothetical loss of the "café society" and what that might mean. If we were sitting at the French Bistro

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The art market's preference for young artists has been a recent topic on a couple of other art blogs. Edward Winkleman has an open thread, Hatin' how they love them Youngins and Lisa Hunter has picked the theme up on The Intrepid Art Collector blog with Deja vu all over again.I started to respond to Lisa's remark "... doesn't anyone besides me remember the 80s? It was the same when we were 20.

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After the making the previous post, I thought it might be interesting to take a further look at some of Klimt's work. The stylistic focus on line and patterning made me think of the Dubuffet paintings I saw recently at Pace Gallery. Also at the time these paintings were made, the Japanese print had become to the forefront. In my view, Klimt took something from this but made it more uniquely

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"A dazzling gold-flecked 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting."From the New York Times, Monday June 19, 2006)Gustav Klimt, "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" 1907, Oil and gold on canvas 138 x 138 cmPhoto NY Times.A different photograph of the same

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Nicole Eisenman's new painting, Progress: Real and Imagined is heroic, both operatic in scope and monumental in scale. The best painting of the 2006 season.Closes: June 17th, 2006I went to Nicole Eisenman's opening, outside of reproductions, it was the first time had actually seen any of her work. While I was impressed with the scale of her new painting, it was hard to see because of the crowd.

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Pace Wildenstein has a wonderful exhibition of paintings Dubuffet and Basquiat: Personal Histories on view at the 25th Street gallery through June 17, 2006. It is a remarkable pairing of two artists of different generations with a surprisingly similar approach to image making, painting. The Dubuffet's from the mid 70's, are great paintings. Don't miss this show.Jean Dubuffet "Mêle moments",

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The Beginning of Time: String Theory I've been reading The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene's wonderful book on string theory. A quick description quoted from the publishers comments on the back cover:"In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the worlds leading string theorists, and author of the forthcoming the Fabric of the

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In an earlier post I expressed my dismay over Sotheby's decision to sell the recently discovered suite of William Blake drawings separately because it was highly unlikely the nineteen drawings would be kept together. The sale was held on May 2, 2006 and as everyone expected the set of drawings was indeed broken up. So how did everyone the money people do? In typical bean counter fashion here is a

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At the risk of preaching to the converted, I would suggest reading "The Worst President in History?" by Sean Wilnetz in the Rolling Stone Wilnetz leads off with the line "George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace…"followed byNow, though, George W. Bush is in serious contention for the title of worst ever. In early 2004, an informal survey of 415 historians

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Edna has written what I feel is an important observation on the contemporary use of irony in art. What prompted her commentary was Jerry Saltz review in the Village Voice of Amy Sillman's current exhibition at the Sikkema Jenkins Gallery. I took the time to go see this exhibition of paintings this afternoon. Although I will make some personal observations on Ms Stillman's paintings what also

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Allan Kaprow. "Yard" View of tires in court of Martha Jackson Gallery, New York 1961. I still have a vivid memory of this work which I saw at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1967. RIP

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One of the major auction houses, Sothebys, is a publicly traded company. Its stock is listed on the NYSE with the ticker symbol BID. Without going into a lengthy discussion of what makes stock prices go up and down, I will just suggest it is the perceived prospect for future earnings and investor enthusiasm. If this is the case, I thought the stock of Sothebys Holdings might be an interesting

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New York Magazine has a recent article titled Five Theories On Why the Art Market Can't Crash, and why it will.I have written two previous posts on related topics Art Money and Fashion and Looking at the Art Market at the Start of the 21st Century which deal with money and the art market. I am just an artist but I have spent twenty years studying the psychology of the financial markets and have

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How much money is there in the world? I found this answer via Google which is $46.513 trillion, let's call it $50 trillion dollars. Why would I wonder this? Well, the Forbes list of billionaires was just released (3/9/06). The list has a record 793 members with a net worth over 1 billion dollars. According to Forbes, combined the're worth a cool 2.6 trillion dollars. Expressed another way, a

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File under the heading, nostalgia.The NY Times did a nice piece on the new Trader Joe's opening March 17th in Union Square. I can't wait.I grew up six blocks from the original Trader Joe's on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena. Along with Mijares, Trader Joe's was a part of my families weekly shopping ritual. Mijares was a "house restaurant" in a residential neighborhood, our source for fresh tortillas

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Today's New York Times highlights the upcoming sale of the recently discovered set of William Blake watercolors originally produced for the poem, "The Grave," by Robert Blair.I'm not going to recount the entire NYT article. Needless to say it is a tale of a marvelous discovery and intrigue laced with copious amounts of plain old greed on the parts of the sellers and their agents. What is

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Edward Winkleman commented today on a Guardian article "When Even the Most Monstrous Works of Art Cost Millions, It's Time for a Price Crash" Well is it and what is happening?In the last decade, the art marketplace has made a quantum leap forward in size. The amount of money, number of galleries and artists worldwide has increased by a significant magnitude in the last 30 years. I am inclined to

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Last month I made several trips to the Fra Angelico exhibition at the Met, The exhibition is now over but the link above to the Met has some images and information on the catalog.One of my favorite paintings was The Last Judgment: Paradise, (1435-40, Tempera on panel, 40-1/2 x 11-1/8 in.) The painting is a difficult size 40.5 x 11 inches or 3.6 to 1 height to width ratio. Tall and skinny might

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Maybe tomorrow I will know more about the future.

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