New York Modest in scale, moody in atmosphere and sumptuous in surface, the paintings of R. H. Quaytman are confections for the eye and puzzles for the mind. Quaytman makes smart, philosophical work, layered with modulated autobiographical content. Edges are a preoccupying theme and a recurring motif. Neither boundaries nor divisions, Quaytman’s edges instead conjoin, [...]

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by Linda Norden
Is there a more likely subject for a discussion of sincerity than Bas Jan Ader or a better test case than his painfully pointed and poignant Im Too Sad to Tell You? Probably not. Over the three decades since Aders mysterious death in 1975, he has become a kind of poster boy for [...]

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Aaron Wexler’s potent schisms in Invisible Ghost, his 2009 show at Josee Bienvenu, instigate a reassessment of collage and the modern implications of nature’s unpredictability. Many of the images channeled broken glass in a myriad of monochrome, allowing insistent fractures to mingle with tinted, and thus dispelled, emptiness. Despite the sharp [...]

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Andrea Zittel has received international acclaim for nearly two decades. Concurrent with exhibitions of her work in Florence at the Palazzo Pitti and Sadie Coles HQ in London, the Joshua Tree, California–based artist recently debuted her latest installation, Indianapolis Island, a makeshift island in 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks [...]

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Heather Rowe‘s exhibition at D’Amelio Terras, which closed June 19, offered a poMo counterpoint to Anne Truitt’s highMo across the street at Matthew Marks. Where Truitt gave us skyscrapers we weren’t supposed to compare to skyscrapers, Rowe gave us a funhouse that that wasn’t fun. That smart crack isn’t necessarily [...]

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NEW YORK— “My manager is telling me that they’re going to break glass on my head and my leading man’s a dog,” Carolyn Murphey, who has been a model for Tom Ford, Roberto Cavalli, and Estée Lauder, told the Web site Nowness. “I’m like, ‘That’s it?’ I was so sure I’d have [...]

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After last week’s targeting of the BP Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery by those protesting BP’s conduct in the Gulf of Mexico and the acceptance of oil sponsorship from cultural institutions, the focus has now fallen on the Tate summer party, which tonight will celebrate 10 years of BP [...]

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Cookies, a Botticelli monograph and gold jumpsuits are just some of the disparate objects currently located in PS1’s rotating gallery space. Curated by ICI (Independent Curators International) director Kate Fowle, the backroom features a temporary archive of objects and documents contributed by 40 of the Greater New York artists to represent [...]

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Franco–who has been painting for 20 years–is also reportedly making a film about the experience that will eventually screen at MOCA as well, completing the performance piece as “mass entertainment to be viewed through an art world filter,” says Deitch in a statement. “Franco’s artwork examines performance: It looks at the multiple levels of identity [...]

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