Paint to End Painting
Brice Marden’s notebooks. An installation view from Karma. All images courtesy Karma Gallery On a page of his 1964–67 journal, underneath a small cutout of Manet’s 1862 painting of Victorine Meurent,...
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Ken Price, who died in 2012, is remembered as a sculptor, but he was also a talented illustrator—his ideal day, he once said, would be spent drawing while listening to jazz. More than forty of his...
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Suellen Rocca’s “Bare Shouldered Beauty: Works from 1965 to 1969” is showing at Matthew Marks Gallery through October 22. In the late sixties, Rocca was part of the Hairy Who, a group of six imagist...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Mandolins, Meaning, Mr. Cui
René Magritte, photographed by Duane Michals. The Surrealist painter René Magritte apparently dressed like a banker (dark suit, tie) but under these “innocent allures,” a friend recalled, he “was a...
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Ray Johnson, Untitled (Jasper Johns, James Dean with Coca-Cola), 1993, collage on board, 8 1/2″ x 18″. Image via Matthew Marks Gallery “For more than thirty years Garland Bunting has been engaged in...
View ArticleSo I Traveled a Great Deal…
“So I traveled a great deal. I met George, Ebbe, Joy, Philip, Jack, Robert, Dora, Harold, Jerome, Ed, Mike, Tom, Bill, Harvey, Sheila, Irene, John, Michael, Mertis, Gai-fu, Jay, Jim, Anne, Kirby,...
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