by Claudine Isé | Mar 23, 2009 | Blog, Review
Boston-based artist Matthew Rich’s large-scale paintings on paper at Devening Projects + Editions present a range of enticing contradictions. A few examples: Rich uses an X-acto type blade to cut lines that aren’t always super-straight, he hangs his...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 23, 2009 | Blog
What do you call an artist who uses Twitter as their main medium–a Twartist? Ugh, forgive me; I’ve been exposed to too many stupid Twitter puns lately and I still haven’t had enough coffee this Monday morning. As part of my ongoing (if admittedly...
by Meg Onli | Mar 22, 2009 | Blog
One of my favorite blogs, C-Monster, has an interview with ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’ director Paul H-O. “During a series of exclusive interviews, Paul and Cindy fall in love and begin a romance. Unexpectedly, the relationship forces Paul to confront...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 22, 2009 | Blog
The Family trust led by the Connecticut collector George A. Weiss which owned a Francis Bacon painting sued Christie’s Inc on Friday, saying the company reneged on a minimum price guarantee of USD 40 million. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Manhattan,...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 20, 2009 | Blog, Review
Rachel Mason’s show at Andrew Rafacz Gallery inspired something in me I never thought I’d feel: the desire to pick up the grizzled Fidel Castro and put him in my pocket. Or at least, the little bust of him that Mason has made, along with dozens of other...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 20, 2009 | Blog, Review
Sometime over the weekend, as I was pouring coffee beans into a canister, I happened to read on the package that proceeds from the coffee had been used to fund a library. Pretty cool, I thought; but then in my cynical way, I began to speculate about just what kind of...
