Studio Visit with Portland Painter Jean Nagai by Paul Maziar - Portland OR

I was first introduced to Jean Nagai’s art by a friend of mine, the poet Sam Lohmann. Sam knew of Jean through some Pacific Northwest connections by way of Olympia Washington.   read more...

"Unpacking" Inaugurates the Marciano Foundation with a Style and Verve by Shana Nys Dambrot - Los Angeles

The Marciano Art Foundation, an impressive, lovingly and cunningly assembled collection of contemporary art by everyone you’ve ever heard of.   read more...

Meta-modernist Phonograph: Cut Creating Blues of Airea D. Matthews by Kofi Forson - New York

Airea D. Matthews’s first collection of poems, Simulacra, received the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (Yale University Press, 2017). She is a recipient of a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award.   read more...

The Beat Goes On in the Art of Leonard Rosenfeld by Paul Laster - New York

In these revisionary times—when the Zero, Gutai, and Arte Povera movements are getting a second life—one of New York’s own, under-known artists deserves another look.   read more...

Materials, Surfaces, Textures at Galeria Pelaires by Blaire Dessent - Paris

Lines are blurred in “Dissolution of Distance,” an exhibition at Galeria Pelaires, which brings together a selection of recent work by Gregor Hildebrandt, Rachel Howard, and Idris Khan   read more...

Pérez Art Museum Miami's Director Franklin Sirmans Leads The Way by Petra Mason - Miami

Franklin Sirmans is a rare breed. In the art world, or any world, one seldom meets a genuinely intelligent and humble human being.   read more...

Constance Mallinson: Unmade at Jason Vass Gallery by Lawrence Gipe - Los Angeles

Constance Mallinson’s latest work is a rare triumvirate of critique, formal rigor and wicked technical chops.   read more...

Artist Pat Riot is Ready to Rumble by Deborah Krieger - Philadelphia

Artist Pat Riot already gives you a good picture of the ethos of the artist before you even see his work: playful, ironic, and always ready to rumble.   read more...

Opening in NYC and Berlin: Armando Frezze Durand's Apocryphal Messengers - New York

It’s about everything we consume today, or everything that consumes us.   read more...

Ayn Choi Paintings at 635 W 42nd Street Annex by Jeffrey Grunthaner - New York

The paintings have a Lee Krasner-like sinuosity about them, while radiating a much quieter energy that is uniquely Choi's own.   read more...

Damien Hirst's Return to the Art World is Perfectly Situated for Our Post-Truth Era by Giovanni Aloi - London

First off, let's be clear: I am neither writing this review to assess whether Damien Hirst's latest offering is any good, nor do I have any desire to evaluate his artistic genius and skills.   read more...

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