Studio Matters: Notes & Commentary

Maureen Mullarkey: Notes & Commentary

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:35:13 -0700

Myth as history
at the
Museum of Biblical Art

One Painter on Ceramics, Another on Canvas

Wed, 12 May 2010 22:48:57 -0700

Israel Hershberg's landscapes at MarlboroughEgyptian funerary art at the Brooklyn Museum; Milton Avery’s early industrial paintings at Knoedler; accumulations of stuff at Allan StoneIrving Petlin’s paintings; Bernardo Siciliano’s girlie pix; a Leonardo da Vinci for Times SquarePost-war art at Knoedler; two centuries of American sculpture at Hirschl & Adler American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Selections of James Tissot's watercolors for The Life Of Christ at the Brooklyn MuseumAn Appreciation of Henry Ossawa TannerLuis Meléndez’s still lifes at the National GalleryRecent collages by Nicol Allan at Davis & LangdaleAn interview conducted by an art student at Pratt with the authorFreedom of speech — unless you annoy the wrong people.The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Evolution by Denis Dutton, Bloomsbury, 288 pp., $25Miniature woven textiles at Davis & LangdaleLate Gothic coffrets lined with incunabula at C.G. Boerner.Paintings and etchings at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtVintage photography by Man Ray, Berenice Abbott, and Naomi Savage at Francis M. Naumann Fine ArtEarly drafts and watercolors by Jean de Brunhoff and son LaurentWatercolors of New York at DC Moore GalleryCharles Matton’s boxed constructions at Forum GalleryVasily Kandinsky's Munich years at the GuggenheimTetsumi Kudo at Andrea Rosen GalleryMax Beckman, Otto Dix, Georg Grosz, and Christian Schad at The Neue GalerieEight urban landscape painters at Elizabeth Harris GalleryPaolo Staccioli’s ceramics at the Italian Cultural Institute; Jordan Wolfson’s
painting at DFN Gallery

Something Old, Something New