In the Age of Excess Post-Haste, part two Lee Klein So it was not that the Maine exhibition was not a success but in its pivoting it was an exhibit that changed directions–sort of in the form of a circle squared. Therein Lerner’s new urban rhythm with a hard edge (whereby he tried to import […]

The Shadow Catcher–Paul Pfeiffer Charles Giuliano This exhibition of videos, altered photographs, dioramas and laser produced objects, by Paul Pfeiffer, (born Honolulu, 1966), expands and shrinks from enormous, wall mural scaled projections, to small screen, LCD monitors. Like Alice in Wonderland’s "Eat Me," "Drink Me," we find ourselves exploding and contracting from macro to micro. […]

Rachel Whiteread Harriet Zinnes It is the human presence that engages the British artist Rachel Whiteread. And yet what one sees is rarely a human figure. Always there is space. Always there are walls. And in the present exhibition (through June 5) at the Guggenheim Museum (1011 Fifth Avenue, New York City) entitled significantly "Transient […]

Andy Warhol Drawings and Related Works Harriet Zinnes In whatever Andy Warhol executed whether paint, print, or film he always had a sense of play. Perhaps that’s why he will be remembered whatever his fame in art for his remark that "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Well, it is more […]

icasso/Matisse Harriet Zinnes Perhaps there are no two artists in modern times who have so ardently captured the imaginations and the devotion of art lovers than Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Matisse, the Frenchman, Picasso, the Spaniard, who spent part of his life in France, the art center of the twentieth century, stars of the […]

The Orchestra Grid Jennifer Reeves His touch avoids eye contact while simultaneously thinking of less important things. Rarely caressing the same place twice, his brush moves from spot "a" to spot "b" until spot "z" announces completion. Never mind if her finely woven linen still clings to her staples. The primary objective being to finish, […]

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As hints of autumn scent the September air, Boston art galleries open their doors with renewed vigor for the fall season. The Asphalt Garden by H. L. Resnikoff As hints of autumn scent the September air, Boston art galleries open their doors with renewed vigor for the fall season. fr’s pair of works with the […]

There is a dissipation to the time. The Necessary Lightning The Terrible Beauty in the Art of Thierry W. Despont by Mark Daniel Cohen There is a dissipation to the time. The clock of the pulse of happenstance slows, events grow dense and stick to the walls of the temporal corridors, drag perilously to a […]

New Yorkers will want to block time on their 2003 calendar for the arrival of Max Beckmann: A Painter in History at MoMAQNS, 25 June — 30 September 2003. Max Beckmann: A Mirror of Reality by H. L. Resnikoff / Les Vieilles Ventes New Yorkers will want to block time on their 2003 calendar for […]