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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.
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.
Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET
Once you get into his weird scale and murmuring color a whole world opens up.
Luke Murphy on Robert Fludd
What it tries to contain — an unimaginable nothingness — is so beyond its simple means…
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.
Marie Peter-Toltz on Gerard Garouste
Beauty disguises her devilry; she represents the other half of hell.
Judith Bernstein on Edvard Munch
He created a vertigo inducing composition, extraordinary in its manifestation of Existentialism…
A Call to Action: Kelli Scott Kelley on Julie Heffernan
The bare-breasted heroine, the apparent caretaker of the heap, wielding a chainsaw…
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.
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.
Murray Zimiles on Kazimir Malevich
In keeping with communist doctrine, he claims that his work glorifies the proletariat…
Barkley Hendricks on Louis Sloan
The snow would be waist high and the temperature freezing or below. Lou would be Eskimo-like…