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Melinda Stickney-Gibson on Susan Rothenberg
Contemporary 9/18/17 Contemporary 9/18/17

Melinda Stickney-Gibson on Susan Rothenberg

It's a curious thing to feel an immediate and unflagging connection and respect for a fellow painter's work

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Mary Lucier on the Video Mysteries of Cecelia Condit
Contemporary 8/23/17 Contemporary 8/23/17

Mary Lucier on the Video Mysteries of Cecelia Condit

They depict a psychological violence resulting from a basic cold-heartedness in human nature.

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Philip Pearlstein on Piero della Francesca
8/10/17 8/10/17

Philip Pearlstein on Piero della Francesca

Yet it seemed to me to provide a kind of grammar of pictorial invention, parallel to the grammatical constructions of language that adventurous poets play with...

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David Reed on Caravaggio: Whirlpool - The Martyrdom of St. Ursula
Baroque, Renaissance 8/1/17 Baroque, Renaissance 8/1/17

David Reed on Caravaggio: Whirlpool - The Martyrdom of St. Ursula

The strange pattern of forms that now obsessed me implied a resolution of that split in consciousness between St. Ursula’s and Caravaggio’s portrait...

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Mark Greenwold on Jack Levine
Contemporary, Modern 7/10/17 Contemporary, Modern 7/10/17

Mark Greenwold on Jack Levine

Greenbergian Modernism... has put nails in the coffins of all sorts of serious and interesting representational artists for most of my lifetime.

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Marc Handelman on Martin Johnson Heade
18th-19th C- 6/16/17 18th-19th C- 6/16/17

Marc Handelman on Martin Johnson Heade

The jungle is gathered as a flat organization of space, folded, and pierced so as to connect multiple locations.

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Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET
Baroque 6/9/17 Baroque 6/9/17

Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET

Once you get into his weird scale and murmuring color a whole world opens up.

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Luke Murphy on Robert Fludd
Baroque, Renaissance 5/27/17 Baroque, Renaissance 5/27/17

Luke Murphy on Robert Fludd

What it tries to contain — an unimaginable nothingness — is so beyond its simple means...

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James McGarrell on Jan Vermeer
Baroque 4/30/17 Baroque 4/30/17

James McGarrell on Jan Vermeer

Its entry is inevitably from the bottom edge because it is from there that, as crawling infants, we all enter spaces.

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Marie Peter-Toltz on Gerard Garouste
Contemporary 4/15/17 Contemporary 4/15/17

Marie Peter-Toltz on Gerard Garouste

Beauty disguises her devilry; she represents the other half of hell.

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Judith Bernstein on Edvard Munch
4/8/17 4/8/17

Judith Bernstein on Edvard Munch

He created a vertigo inducing composition, extraordinary in its manifestation of Existentialism.

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A Call to Action: Kelli Scott Kelley on Julie Heffernan
Contemporary 3/31/17 Contemporary 3/31/17

A Call to Action: Kelli Scott Kelley on Julie Heffernan

The bare-breasted heroine, the apparent caretaker of the heap, wielding a chainsaw...

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John Moore on Pierre Roy
Modern 3/23/17 Modern 3/23/17

John Moore on Pierre Roy

In the seventies while living in Philadelphia I spent a lot of time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where I first saw Pierre Roy's Metric System.

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Samuel Jablon on Mike Cloud
Contemporary 3/9/17 Contemporary 3/9/17

Samuel Jablon on Mike Cloud

Like a sinister joke, or a self-destructive one, the work makes us laugh and question why we’re laughing.

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Murray Zimiles on Kazimir Malevich
Modern 3/1/17 Modern 3/1/17

Murray Zimiles on Kazimir Malevich

In keeping with communist doctrine, he claims that his work glorifies the proletariat, in the form of the Russian peasantry.

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Barkley Hendricks on Louis Sloan
Contemporary 2/14/17 Contemporary 2/14/17

Barkley Hendricks on Louis Sloan

I learned a great deal from Mr. Sloan when I was a student of his at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

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Laura Newman on a Diagonal Line in Matisse's 'View of Notre Dame'
Modern 1/31/17 Modern 1/31/17

Laura Newman on a Diagonal Line in Matisse's 'View of Notre Dame'

In Matisse’s View of Notre Dame, a diagonal line reaches out of the pentimenti, which establish the artist’s side of a French window, and spans the Seine.

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Roberto Juarez on Hilma af Klint
Modern 1/13/17 Modern 1/13/17

Roberto Juarez on Hilma af Klint

Her paintings spoke to me in a personal yet enigmatic way. I had yet to experience anything like them.

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Joan Waltemath on Zen and the Art of Billy Al Bengston
Contemporary 12/5/16 Contemporary 12/5/16

Joan Waltemath on Zen and the Art of Billy Al Bengston

“Stud”, an exhibition of Billy Al Bengston’s paintings at Venus over Manhattan Gallery this past November, afforded a unique opportunity to see the legendary West Coast painter in New York City. It is clearly a special moment for an artist.

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And then the Real Nature Showed Up: Emilie Clark on Rubens
Baroque 11/21/16 Baroque 11/21/16

And then the Real Nature Showed Up: Emilie Clark on Rubens

Last week I went to the Met to pick out a painting to write about for Painters on Painting. I had initially thought that I would write about a contemporary work, always feeling that I need to broaden my knowledge of contemporary painting. But then the election happened and I wanted to be in the Met.

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