Joan Miro at Denver Art Museum
: Insight & Imagination; March 22 to June 28, 2015 Denver — “I painted in a frenzy, so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go.” – Joan Miró, 1978 A while ago, a young artist friend of mine told me “The avant-garde…
Michaël Borremans – Dallas Museum of Art
March 15, 2015 to July 5, 2015 As Sweet As It Gets Painter Borremans will develop like Simon Shama’s narrative of Rembrant – having mastered old master painting he’s going to let politics creep in: fish on the table – of the poor, an ugly begermister. What symbols, attitudes juxtapositions will he use? I don’t…
Beyond Pop Art at the DAM –
Denver – July 10, 2014. You have to be inhuman to not GET an artist when you see a good retrospective. When you see the work of Tom Wesselmann at the Denver Art Museum this summer you’ll get the classic, chronologically ordered line up of this Pop artist’s first work, the work that made his…
David Hockney: a Bigger Exhibit
Fall 2013-Winter 2014 SAN FRANCISCO – I don’t know if he should have gone so big, I said when I saw the first painting that was 32 average-sized canvases and covered an entire wall of the deYoung Museum, in San Francisco, where the show, “A Bigger Exhibition” is housed from October 24 through February 26,…
Carny Show at C. Springs Fine Art
Pamela Joseph’s Sideshow of the Absurd Oct. 12, 2013 – Jan. 12, 2014 Drawings and sculptures with that ‘something’s-not-right’ quality that is what always comes to mind when I hear Woody Allen in (movie title) say “Carnies – I’m scared of carnies.” The drawings are expressive, done in what seems to be a free and…
Retrospective Reflecting
A James Turrell Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, BCAM, Level 2 and Resnick Pavilion May 26, 2013–April 6, 2014 Turrell, the artist who is still working inside the old meteor crater outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, was talked about when he first arrived in town like a crazy man is discussed — with a…
Nick Cave at the Denver Art Museum
Contemporary visual art is usually not concerned with craftsmanship, said William Morrow, the curator of contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum, while asking Nick Cave why his work on view at the DAM was so well crafted. Mr. Cave said the works are made with a concern for quality because that is how he…
Georgia O’Keefe at the Denver Art Museum
DENVER – At a media preview for the exhibition Georgia O’Keefe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land, which opens Feb. 10 at the Denver Art Museum, a fellow journalist said, “finally a show I can relate to. I know New Mexico.” Soon after this, Thomas Smith, one the curators of the show, and…
Walter deMaria – deMenil Museum – Houston
Houston – Tx – November, 2011 Restored, old cars – three 1950’s Chevy – all the same except pieced by a different shape. All were on a pedestal, a big one. A chromed rod in the extruded form of a triangle, a circle and a square about 3 feet in diameter went through the…
Tony Cragg
Made for the Nasher Sculpture Center – DALLAS – November 10, 2011 The clean, sparse, naturally-lit sculpture center in Dallas, created by the 20th C. collectors Raymond and Patsy Nasher, shows Tony Cragg’s 21st C. sculpture like they were made for each other. Cragg’s work is slick and purposeful, but so detailed it could only…