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LORRAINE O’GRADY: ‘New Worlds’
17 May 2012, 4:45 pm
Lorraine O’Grady calls on her ethnic background — she was born to Jamaican parents in Boston — again, with deep ambivalence in two black-and-white photomontages.
Painter Tom Lieber works his way out of tight spot
11 May 2012, 7:07 pm
Can a painter now practice without irony a style supposed to have burned itself out 50-odd years ago? This question licks like flames at the recent work of Tom Lieber at Dolby Chadwick. Lieber has long plied his own...
2 Days In New York
9 May 2012, 9:21 pm
"I like the theme more than the execution” muses a pompous art critic as he inspects Julie Delpy’s latest exhibition, in the star’s follow-up to 2007 romcom 2 Days In Paris . Some might feel similarly about this haphazard meditation on Franco- American relations, which hurls screwball situations, oddball cameos and the odd one-liner liberally at the screen without much caring if any of them ...
Niall McClelland at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
5 May 2012, 2:24 am
Toronto artist Niall McClelland presents paintings and paper pieces at Eleanor Harwood that seek parity between process and content. That ambition has roots that reach back half a century to the early work of people...
Knowing How Your Dinner Sees The World
3 May 2012, 10:38 pm
When writing about art with a message, critics tend to soft-pedal and back-pedal. Perhaps their hearts are with the messenger, yet they have reservations about the forms in which the ideas are delivered. Perhaps, for some, the message doesn’t come through strongly enough.
Annual show at Modesto's Mistlin salutes our artists
2 May 2012, 7:25 pm
Annual show at Mistlin Gallery salutes season, honors artistsThe watercolor depicts a spectacular ocean scene with cliffs, a winding trail and a small community sparkling in the distance.
Suit over Norton Simon artwork enters a final phase
2 May 2012, 2:43 pm
An art dealer's daughter-in-law appeals to the 9th Circuit to lay claim to the
diptych 'Adam and Eve' at the Pasadena museum. It was stolen by Goering in World War II. An art dealer's daughter-in-law appeals to the 9th Circuit to lay claim to the
diptych 'Adam and Eve' at the Pasadena museum. It was stolen by Goering in World War II.
Louis le Brocquy
25 April 2012, 10:50 am
"Herbert Read once said that I 'was a painter of the inner world of feeling' and although it didn't mean a terrible lot to me at the time, I've begun to think that he was right."