Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Michael Lobel
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Dispatch from the Whitney Biennial: I have many thoughts, but one relates to general lack of engagement with even relatively recent art history. I won't say who this artist is, but their process & result are almost identical to that of Nancy Graves in the 1980s, minus Graves's painted surfaces
A well-known artist once said to me that the most successful people she knew had the highest tolerance for rejection. So, as with any professional endeavor, one helpful rule is: just apply, apply, apply (as long as you're in the UK, in this case)👇
Group chats...! (Isabel Bishop, Two Girls, 1935)
I highly recommend you read the alt-text here, which is like a master class in lively visual description👇
And here are two of the Nancy Graves '80s works that the current Biennial sculptures come close to repeating—as I mentioned, minus Graves's painted surfaces. The crazy thing is the Whitney has a similar work by Graves in its collection, so it's not like these are unknown whitney.org/collection/w...
"Those who cannot remember the past, yada yada yada"
David Hammons, Higher Goals, 1986, mixed media with basketball nets & bottle caps; installation view, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
Kind of wishing I could go to Santa Fe just to see this 🔥🔥🔥 show of vintage "catalogue boards" featuring groupings of photos by iconic beefcake photographer Bob Mizer. At Daniel Cooney Fine Art, opening tomorrow www.danielcooneyfineart.com/artists/bob-...
