James Panero is the Managing Editor of The New Criterion.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2013, 58
On “Dana Gordon & John Mendelsohn: New Paintings” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, “Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, “Fedele Spadafora: New Paintings” at Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, and “John Dubrow: Recent Work” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , April 2013, 55
On “Thornton Willis: Steps” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, “Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959” at Gagosian Gallery, “Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966–2013” at the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, “Judith Braun: May I Draw” at Joe Sheftel Gallery, “Paul D’Agostino: Twilit Ensembles” at Pocket Utopia, and “Joe Zucker: Empire Descending a Staircase” at Mary Boone Gallery.
Copycat quandary: a reply (Letters) , April 2013, 80
Gallery chronicle (Art) , March 2013, 42
On “Walt Kuhn: American Modern” at DC Moore Gallery, New York, "Armory Week," Beat Nite, and more.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2013, 47
On “Lois Dodd: Selected Panel Paintings” at Alexandre Gallery, “Paul Resika: 8+8, Eight Paintings from Eight Decades” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, “Paul Resika: 8+8, Eight Recent Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, “Mario Naves: Recent Paintings” and “Brett Baker: Paintings” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, and “Sharon Butler: Precisionist Casual” at Pocket Utopia.
Hogwash, abstract & the rest: a reply (Letters) , February 2013, 81
The culture of the copy (Features) , January 2013, 4
On the printing press, the Internet & the impact of duplication.
The Armory Show at 100 (Features) , December 2012, 10
The lessons of the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , November 2012, 52
On "To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts" at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2012, 51
On “Line and Plane” at McKenzie Fine Art, “Fred Gutzeit: SigNature” at Sideshow Gallery, “Heroes” at Small Black Door, “Jon Schueler: The Mallaig Years, 1970–75” at David Findlay Jr. Gallery & “Eugen Schönebeck: Paintings and Drawings, 1957–1966” at David Nolan Gallery.
The new political art (Art) , September 2012, 54
On Ai Weiwei, Pussy Riot, and the right way to do political art.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2012, 54
On the outer-borough art scene, “This Side of Paradise” at the Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, New York, “Frieze New York” at Randall’s Island, and “Carol Salmanson/Stephen Truax” at the Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2012, 72
On "The Brodmann Areas: A New Collaborative Ballet from Norte Maar,” “Jorinde Voigt” at David Nolan Gallery, “William Bailey: New Paintings” at Betty Cuningham Gallery, and “Tom Goldenberg: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper.”
What's new & what's true (Features) , May 2012, 31
From "Remembering Hilton Kramer."
Future tense, VII: What's a museum? (Features) , March 2012, 4
On the changing nature of our cultural institutions.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2012, 51
On “MIC:CHECK (occupy)” at Sideshow gallery, Brooklyn; “Gabriele Evertz: Rapture” at Minus Space, Brooklyn; “Lori Ellison” at McKenzie Fine Art, New York & “Halsey Hathaway and Gary Petersen: New Paintings” and “Paintings by Rob de Oude” at Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn. 5 “Lee Bontecou: Recent Work: Sculpture and Drawing” opened at FreedmanArt, New York, on October 27, 2011 and remains on view through February 11, 2012.
Shorter notice (Books) , February 2012, 76
Gallery chronicle (Art) , January 2012, 66
On “My Collection,” by Cathy Nan Quinlan, at www.thetemporarymuseum.com and by appointment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; “Re-Telling” at Nurture Art, Brooklyn; Ahram Jeong” at Momenta Art, Brooklyn & “Concrete Sound” at Norte Maar, Brooklyn.
Commune plus one (Features) , December 2011, 22
On Occupy Wall Street & the legacy of the Paris Commune.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , November 2011, 52
On “Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism” at Acquavella Galleries; “Ronnie Landfield: Structure and Color” at Stephen Haller Gallery; “Melissa Meyer: New Paintings and Watercolors” at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.; & “Melissa Meyer: Just Painting” at BravinLee Programs.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2011, 53
On “Will Barnet at 100” at the National Academy Museum; “Will Barnet: Small Works on Paper from the 1950s” at Alexandre Gallery; “Lars and Lori” at Valentine, Queens; “Sally Pettus: Paintings from the Perimeter” at KS Art; “Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972–2011—Paths of the Sun” at Knoedler & Company; “Richard Timperio: Paintings 2011” at Art 101, Brooklyn & “Loren Munk: Location, Location, Location, Mapping the New York Art World” at Lesley Heller Workspace.
Blunder at the Biennale (Features) , September 2011, 58
On the Department of States diplomatic flop at the Venice Biennale.
Exhibition note (Art) , September 2011, 109
On "Simon Dinnerstein: The Fulbright Triptych & Selected Works” at The German Consulate General, New York.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2011, 50
On “Matthew Miller: the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it” at Famous Accountants, Queens; “Don Voisine” at McKenzie Fine Art; “Stephen Westfall: Seraphim: Paintings and Works on Paper” at Lennon Weinberg; “Jules Olitski: Embracing Circles 1959–1964” at FreedmanArt, New York; “Jacob Collins: New Work” at Adelson Galleries; and “Exhibition of Contemporary American Realism” at the National Arts Club, New York.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2011, 53
On “In the Use of Others for the Change: A Program of New Ballets by Julia K. Gleich” at the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; “Kenneth Noland: Paintings 1958–1968” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; and “Structured Color” at D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , April 2011, 51
On “Peter Reginato: Polychrome” at Heidi Cho Gallery, “Mel Kendrick: Works from 1995 to Now” at David Nolan Gallery & “Thornton Willis” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , March 2011, 55
On the VIP Art Fair, the Art Project powered by Google & "Angel Otero: Memento" at Lehmann Maupin, New York.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2011, 54
On new media and the phenomenon of Loren Munk, whose work is on view at “New Year, New Work, New Faces” at Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn; “It’s All Good!!: Apocalypse Now” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn; “Paper 2011” at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery; “I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me” at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; and “#TheSocialGraph: An Evolving Exploration of Social Media Art” at Outpost gallery, Queens.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , January 2011, 55
On “Andy Piedilato: New Paintings” at English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn; "Andrew Hurst" at Storefront, Brooklyn; “Marksmen and the Palimpsests” at Centotto, Brooklyn; “Sacred Presence/Painterly Process” at the Derfner Judaica Museum, The Bronx & “Becoming Modern in America” at Minus Space, Brooklyn.
My Jerry Saltz problem (Features) , December 2010, 30
On art criticism in the age of the internet.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , November 2010, 48
On “Visual Sensations: The Paintings of Robert Swain, 1967–2010” at the Hunter College Times Square Gallery; “Julian Stanczak: Color–Grid” at Danese Gallery & “On Paper: Painted, Printed, Drawn” at Jill Newhouse Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2010, 48
On “Kim Uchiyama: Archaeo" at Lohin Geduld Gallery; “John Dubrow: New Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; “In the Light of Corot” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects & “David Kapp: Recent Paintings” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , September 2010, 44
On “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” at the Whitney Museum of American Art & “Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter” at DC Moore Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2010, 48
On “Patricia Watwood: Portraits 2010” at Open Source, Brooklyn; “Michael Klein: Recent Paintings” at Arcadia Gallery & “Paul Resika: Recent Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2010, 50
On “Joe Zucker” at Mary Boone Gallery; “Bruce Gagnier: Incarnate” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; “Shirley Jaffe: Selected Paintings, 1969–2009” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery; “Lois Dodd: Second Street Paintings” at Alexandre Gallery & “Deborah Brown: The Bushwick Paintings” at Storefront, Brooklyn.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , April 2010, 50
The Armory Show at the Chelsea Piers; ADAA’s Art Show & the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory; “William Bailey: New Work” at the Betty Cuningham Gallery & “Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations” at Knoedler & Company.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , March 2010, 45
On "Seventy Years Grandma Moses" at Galerie St. Etienne & “Carolanna Parlato: Vortical” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2010, 49
On the Bushwick art scene, the "Inaugural Exhibition" at Storefront; “The Wells Street Gallery Revisited: Then and Now” at Lesley Heller Workspace; “Works on Paper” at Danese & “Jack Tworkov: True and False” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , January 2010, 54
James Panero on “Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009” at Marian Goodman Gallery; “Pearlstein/Held: Five Decades” at Betty Cuningham Gallery & “Ray Parker: The Simple Paintings” at Washburn Gallery.
The art market explained (Features) , December 2009, 26
Why the bubble wont pop for Pop.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , November 2009, 47
On “Sam Francis: 1953–1959”at L&M Arts; “Jay Milder: Recent Work” at Lohin Geduld Gallery; “Abby Leigh: The Sleeper’s Eye” at Betty Cuningham Gallery & “Silver Anniversary: 25 Photographs, 1835 to 1914” at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2009, 52
On “George Grosz: The Years in America: 1933–1958” at David Nolan Gallery; “Mel Kendrick: Markers” in Madison Square Park; “Conrad Marca-Relli: The New York Years 1945–1967” at Knoedler & Company; “Leon Polk Smith” at Washburn Gallery; “Carole Feuerman: Swimmers, Bathers & Nudes”at Jim Kempner Fine Art & “Color-Time-Space” at Lohin Geduld and Janet Kurnatowski Galleries.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , September 2009, 48
On "Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes, Five Decades of Paintings" at the UBS Art Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2009, 50
On Op Art, Gabriele Evertz at Metaphor Gallery, James Little at June Kelly Gallery & Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2009, 47
On "Picasso: Mosqueteros" at the Gagosian Gallery & “Edward Minoff” at Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut.
The New York fairs (Art) , April 2009, 42
On 1Q2US, the Winter Antiques Show 2009, The Armory Show, The Art Show & “Placing Avery: Paintings and Prints from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art” at the UBS Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , March 2009, 47
On “Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks” at Pace Wildenstein.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2009, 52
On “Philip Guston: 1954–1958” at L&M Arts, “John Walker: Drawings 1973–1975” at Knoedler & Company & “Biala: Collages 1957–1963” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , January 2009, 50
On “Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades” at Knoedler & Co.
Made in China (Features) , December 2008, 29
On Zhang Huan & contemporary art in China.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2008, 46
On "The Etchings of Giorgio Morandi" at Pace Master Prints, & "Giorgio Morandi: Paintings and Works on Paper" at Lucas Schoormans Gallery.
Hudson River Schooled (Art) , September 2008, 50
On Jacob Collinss Hudson River School for Landscape.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2008, 53
On "Catherine Murphy: New Work" at Knoedler & Company; "Walton Ford" at Paul Kasmin Gallery & "Jacob Collins—Rediscovering the American Landscape: The Eastholm Project" at Hirschl & Adler.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2008, 62
On “John Dubrow: Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; “Wayne Thiebaud: The Figure” at Allan Stone Gallery; “Gregory Crewdson” at Luhring Augustine & “Lois Dodd: Landscapes and Structures, a Survey Exhibition” at Alexandre Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , April 2008, 49
On "The 2008 Biennial Exhibition" at the Whitney Museum; "Moon Birds" at Knoedler & Company & "Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works by Jamie Wyeth" at Adelson Galleries.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2008, 51
On "Richard Pousette-Dart: Drawing, Form Is Verb" at Knoedler & Company; "Group Exhibition: Abstractions" at Charles Cowles Gallery; "Barry Le Va: Voltage" at David Nolan Gallery & "El Anatsui: Zebra Crossing" at Jack Shainman Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , January 2008, 47
On "Christopher Wilmarth" at the Betty Cuningham Gallery.
Radical un-chic (Features) , December 2007, 27
On Tom Wolfe & the derrière garde.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , December 2007, 45
On "Calder/Melotti: Lyrical Constructions" at Barbara Mathes Gallery; "Drawing in Space" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; "Joel Shapiro: New Sculpture" at PaceWildenstein; "Mel Kendrick: Red Blocks" at David Nolan Gallery; "Willem de Kooning, Drawings: 1920s-1970s" at Allan Stone Gallery & "Jules Olitski: The Late Paintings, A Celebration" at Knoedler & Company.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , November 2007, 60
On Salander-OReilly, "Thornton Willis, Paintings: 40 Years" at Sideshow Gallery & "William Bailey on Canvas" at Betty Cuningham Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2007, 52
On "Masterpieces of Art: Five Centuries of Painting and Sculpture" at Salander-OReilly Galleries; "Michael Goldberg: New Paintings" at Knoedler & Company & "Duncan Hannah: Wanderlust" at James Graham & Sons.
Making sense of Robert Storr (Features) , September 2007, 18
What the American director of the 52nd Venice Biennale can tell us about the state of culture.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2007, 48
On Wolf Kahn at Ameringer Yohe Fine Arts, George Baselitz at David Nolan Gallery, Charles Burchfield at DC Moore Gallery, "Magical Means: Milton Avery and Watercolor" at Knoedler & Company, Joan Mitchell at Cheim & Read Gallery & "A Century and a Half in the Art Business" at James Graham & Sons.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2007, 50
On the sculptor Sabin Howard & “Constable’s Oil Sketches 1809–1829: The Maria Bicknell Years” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
The New York fairs (Art) , April 2007, 68
On "The Armory Show: International Fair of New Art" at Pier 94 and "The Art Show" at the Seventh Regiment Armory.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , March 2007, 49
On "Picturing Artists (1950s-1960s): Photographs by Dan Budnik" at Knoedler & Company; "John Morra: Recent Paintings" at Hirschl & Adler Galleries; "Nell Blaine: Image and Abstraction; Paintings and Drawings (1944-1959)" at Tibor de Nagy Gallery & "Al Pounders: Recent Work" at Allen Stone Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2007, 52
On "Andrew Forge" at Betty Cuningham Gallery; "Nineteenth-century German Romantic Drawings" at David Nolan Gallery & "Paintings: Ralph Albert Blakelock, Louis Michel Eilshemius, and Albert Pinkham Ryder" at Salander-OReilly Galleries.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , January 2007, 56
On "Sanctuary Revealed: Restoration of an Architectural Icon" at the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica; "Responses to Solitude" at the Terrence Cooke Building & "Biblical Art in a Secular Century" at the Museum of Biblical Art.
The secret history of modern art (Features) , December 2006, 19
An exploration of the symbolist origins of modern art.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2006, 54
On "Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam" at the National Academy Museum; "John Funt: Recent Paintings," at James Graham & Sons; "John Walker: Seal Point Series" at Knoedler & Company & "Giorgio Morandi" at Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
The new old school (Art) , September 2006, 104
On the rise of Classical Realism and its dean, Jacob Collins
Shorter notice (Books) , June 2006, 97
On Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History by Stephen Christopher Quinn
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2006, 53
On French Book Art/Livres dArtistes at the New York Public Library; Clifford Odets at Michael Rosenfield Gallery; James Castle/Walker Evans at Knoedler & Company; Guy Pène du Bois at James Graham & Sons; Arthur Dove at Alexandre Gallery & Willem de Kooning at L&M Arts.
The New York fairs (Art) , May 2006, 45
On "The Armory Show" at Piers 90 and 92; "The Art Show" at Seventh Regiment Armory & "The Winter Antiques Show" also at the Seventh Regiment Armory.
Exhibition Notes (Art) , April 2006, 44
On "Fairfield Porter" at the Betty Cuningham Gallery.
Queer eye for the Whitney Bi (Art) , April 2006, 48
On "The Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night" at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art.
Shorter notice (Books) , April 2006, 78
On Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World by Paul Werner.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , March 2006, 48
On Edvard Munch at MoMA and the Scandinavia House; Kentridge at the Marian Goodman; William Nicholson at Paul Kasmin; Jake Berthot at Betty Cuningham & Lois Dodd at Alexandre Gallery.
Shorter notice (Books) , March 2006, 74
Rodolphe Rapettis "Symbolism" reviewed.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2006, 50
On “Richard Tuttle: Constructed Relief Paintings, 1964–1965” at Peter Freeman; “The Kreutzer Sonata: Historical Work by Richard Tuttle” at Zwirner & Wirth; “Richard Tuttle: Prints 1973–2005” at Brooke Alexander Editions; “Joe Zucker: Open Storage, New Paintings” and “Joe Zucker: Container Ships,” at Paul Kasmin Gallery and Nolan/Eckman Gallery; “Biala: Selected Paintings” at Tibor de Nagy & “Robert S. Neuman: Fifty Years” at Allan Stone Gallery.
Criticism after art (Features) , December 2005, 16
On discussing art criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago and encountering the critic Dave Hickey.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , November 2005, 43
On “Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color” at the Whitney Museum of American Art; “Theme & Variation: Twentieth-Century Master Prints” at Hirschl & Adler Galleries; “Salute to the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League" at Joan T. Washburn Gallery & “Tim Bavington: Recent Paintings” at Jack Shainman Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2005, 53
On “Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island,” by Robert Smithson; “Philip Pearlstein” at Betty Cuningham Gallery; “Jordan Wolfson: Recent Work” at DFN Gallery; “Philip-Lorca de Corcia: Lucky Thirteen” at PaceWildenstein; “Jean Hélion” at the National Academy Museum & and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, for Old Master and Renaissance art and sculpture, recently opened at 22 East 71st Street.
Exhibition notes (Art) , September 2005, 70
On “Robert Smithson” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Gallery Chronicle (Art) , June 2005, 51
On “Marvin Bileck & Emily Nelligan: Cranberry Island: Drawings and Prints” at Alexandre Gallery; “Tim Gardner” at 303 Gallery; “Jacqueline Gourevitch: Cloud Paintings 2000–2005" & "David Hockney: Pools 1978–1980” at the Mary Ryan Gallery & “Richard Baker” at Tibor de Nagy.
Exhibition Notes (Art) , June 2005, 49
On “Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile” at The J. Paul Getty Museum & Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , May 2005, 48
On “Adrienne Farb” at Mary Ryan Gallery; “Graham Nickson: Painting” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; “Wayne Thiebaud Since 1962: A Survey” at the Allan Stone Gallery & "Thornton Willis & James Little: Raising the Bar” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn.
Shorter notice (Books) , May 2005, 89
A review of "Christopher Wilmarth: Light & Gravity" by Steven Henry Madoff.
The New York fairs (Art) , April 2005, 51
On “The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art” at Piers 90 & 92; the seventeenth annual ADAA “Art Show” at the 67th Street Armory; the AIPAD “Photography Show” at the New York Hilton; the Outsider Art Fair at the Puck Building; & the Winter Antiques Show also at the 67th Street Armory.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , March 2005, 46
On “Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper” at the Whitney Museum; “John Walker: Collage” at Knoedler & Company & “George McNeil: Paintings” at Salander-OReilly Galleries.
Shorter notices (Books) , March 2005, 75
On Reading Biography, by Carl Rollyson.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , February 2005, 43
On “Hans Hofmann: Search for the Real” at Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art; “Robert De Niro, Sr.: Paintings” at Salander-OReilly, New York; “Jane Freilicher: An Overview” at Tibor de Nagy & “Milton Avery: Onrushing Waves” at Knoedler & Company.
Shorter notices (Books) , February 2005, 76
A review of The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders, by Masayo Duus, translated by Peter Duus.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , January 2005, 44
On “Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso-Beckmann” at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; “Ralph Eugene Meatyard” at the International Center of Photography & “James Gillray” at the New York Public Library.
Shorter notices (Books) , January 2005, 72
James Panero on My Life, by Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Pictures from an institution (Features) , December 2004, 33
James Panero consults Randell Jarrell’s classic novel upon revisiting his own Benton.
Exhibition Notes (Art) , December 2004, 51
On “Calder, Miro” at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Shorter notices (Books) , December 2004, 84
A review of Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , November 2004, 41
On “Inventions: Recent Paintings by Caio Fonseca” at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; “Caio Fonseca, New Paintings” at Paul Kasmin Gallery; “Richmond Burton” at Cheim & Read; “Louisa Matthiasdottir: A Retrospective” at Scandinavia House, New York; “Giorgio Morandi, Paintings 1950-“1964” at Lucas Schoormans & “Rackstraw Downes, New Paintings” at Betty Cuningham Gallery.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , October 2004, 48
On “Scott LoBaido” at Tribute Gallery; Will Cotton at Mary Boone Chelsea Gallery; “Modern Masters” at Salander-O’Reilly; “Lois Dodd: Flashings” at Alexandre Gallery; Joan Mitchell at Mary Ryan Gallery; “Under the Influence” at Barbara Mathes Gallery & Ai Weiwei at Robert Miller Gallery.
Shorter notices (Books) , September 2004, 77
A review of Americans in Paris, the new Library of America anthology.
Shorter notices (Books) , September 2004, 77
A review of Hotel Bemelmans, from the author best known for his Madeline books.
Kermit Swiler Champa, 1939-2004 (Notebook) , September 2004, 78
On the passing of Kermit Swiler Champa, an art historian and professor of art history at Brown University.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2004, 45
On "Constables Skies" at Salander-OReilly Galleries; "Guy Pene du Bois: Painter of Modern Life" at James Graham & Sons; "Eduardo Paolozzi: Works on Paper and Collage" at Flowers & "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth" at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.
Milton Avery: then & now (Art) , May 2004, 25
On the unpresumptuous Milton Avery whose “quiet harmonies of color and line” continue to resonate.
Exhibition note (Art) , March 2004, 57
On “A Beautiful and Gracious Manner: The Art of Parmigianino” at The Frick Collection.
Armchair adventures (Art) , February 2004, 56
On Joe Zucker at Paul Kasmin and Nolan/Eckman; Philip Pearlstein at Robert Miller & Antoine-Louis Barye at James Graham.
Strange fruit (Art) , January 2004, 44
On the “John Currin” at the Whitney Museum of American Art & “Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things” at the Museum of Modern Art, Queens.
What is strange about the Dahesh Museum? (Features) , December 2003, 33
On the reopening of a curious New York institution.
Whither the psychodramas? (Art) , October 2003, 47
On “Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz” at the AXA gallery & “Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue-”Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965” at the Whitney.
That is to say: nowhere (Art) , September 2003, 45
On “The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003” at the Whitney.
Reading Africa in Waugh (Features) , July 2003
What Evelyn Waugh can tell us about contemporary Africa.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , June 2003, 55
Joel Shapiro at PaceWildenstein; Frank Stella at Paul Kasmin; George Segal at Mitchell-Innes & Nash & Roy Lichtenstein on the roof the Metropolitan Museum.
The house gods of Elie Nadelman (Art) , May 2003, 44
On “Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition note (Art) , May 2003, 47
On “Nell Blaine, Artist in the World: Works from the 1950s” at Tibor de Nagy.
Gallery chronicle (Art) , April 2003, 60
On William Bailey at Robert Miller, Paul Georges at Salander-OReilly; Marsden Hartley at Alexandre & Wayne Thiebaud at Allan Stone.
Marsden Hartley & American modernism (Art) , March 2003, 49
On the native spirit of Americas great modernist painter.
Exhibition note (Art) , February 2003, 49
On “Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art” at the Fogg art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Exhibition note (Art) , February 2003
On Wolfgang Tillmans at Busch-Reisinger.
Bonnard's butterflies (Features) , December 2002, 32
On the metamorphosis of Pierre Bonnard.
Erotic prudery (Art) , November 2002, 49
On the sexual politics of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
MOMA QNS (Art) , July 2002
Considering how “QNS” weighs against the precarious balance of “MOMA,” and to what extent the architecture of “MOMA QNS” tells us about the future of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Exhibition note (Art) , May 2002, 51
On “Surrealism: Desire Unbound” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note (Art) , December 2001, 61
On “Along the Nile: Early Photographs of Egypt,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.