Henry Taylor: Skin in the Game

One of the many reasons I love PS1 is that it's one of the few museums that regularly introduces an old art addict like me me to talents with whom I'm not familiar. Case in Point: The Henry Taylor show on view now in the main, first-floor exhibition area through April 9. Henry Taylor, "Huey Newton (2007) The majority of the show is taken up with mid-sized paintings, mostly portraits and mostly...

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Sculpture Center: Hidden Gem Is One of NYC's Coolest (and Scariest) Art Venues

I made one of my quarterly visits to Queens on Sunday, March 18, drawn primarily by the Henry Taylor show at PS1 (more on that in a later post), but I also swung by the Sculpture Center--one of my favorite exhibition spaces in the city. Exterior view of the Sculpture Center  If you don't like crowds or lines--indeed, if you like having art all to yourself--the Sculpture Center is for you....

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Chuck Close Has Face Blindness!

Irony of ironies--Chuck Close, perhaps the most-famous painter of the human visage of the past 50 years, apparently has "face blindness," according to the latest 60 Minutes--that is, he can't recognize famous or familiar peop...

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Lichtenstein/China: Powerful Surprise

Roy Lichtenstein is an artist who's easy to like, but hard to love. I've always considered his bright, Pop confections, crafted with his signature Ben-Day-dots, cheery but shallow--worth a look but not a linger. But my standard assessment was shattered by a show (through April 7) at Gagosian's 24th Street emporium of Lichtenstein's "Landscapes in the Chinese Style." I was utterly unfamiliar with...

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MoMA's Glenn Lowry Is a Pervert: Cindy Sherman

OK, so Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, isn't really a pervert--or at least, I don't know if he is or he isn't. But he did make quite a  risqué, sexually confrontational choice (some might say a "courageous" pick, in the current critical parlance) for his favorite of all the photographs by Cindy Sherman currently on display (through June 11) at MoMA. Cindy Sherman, Untitled...

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