CAIN SCHULTE GALLERY - SF|BERLIN - upcoming Openings Oct 22, 2009
Influenced by Alice Neel and Joan Mitchell, here Connally alludes to the natural world without directly depicting it. In addition, for this selection, Connally is expanding on a strategy already in embryo in the past year, whereby a particular image is developed in two different media. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Virginia Miller on How To Collect A... Aug 11, 2009
Work she's curated that s appreciated: An Alice Neel watercolor from a 1978 gallery show has gone up 5,000 percent; a Richard Pousette-Dart painting that has increased 2,000 percent; and Chinese art whose price has tripled in four months. Given the present explosive state of the Chinese contemporary market, she says, work by almost any artist appearing in the 2007 Chinese Contemporary Art Document is likely to appreciate. (Suite101.com)
Jill Lepore: The fuss about parenthood. Jun 22, 2009
Parents Magazine and the fuss about parenthood: Books: The New Yorker. Parents Magazine, Clara Savage Littledale, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (Norton; 23. (New Yorker)
Louis Menand: Should creative writing be taught? Jun 5, 2009
Peter Schjeldahl on the paintings of Alice Neel. A selection of photographs by Richard Avedon. (New Yorker)
Joan Acocella: Natalia Osipova breaks out. Jun 1, 2009
Russian Soul: Critic's Notebook: The New Yorker (New Yorker)
READ THE ARTICLE (SUBCRIPTION REQUIRED) May 21, 2009
ABSTRACT: THE ART WORLD review of Alice Neel gallery shows. The great American portrait painter, Alice Neel (1900-1984), who is the subject of two current New York gallery shows, led the kind of disheveled life that was thought of, in praise or in blame, as bohemian, before it got stamped dysfunctional ... Peter Schjeldahl on the paintings of Alice Neel. (New Yorker)
FDR's public art program lives on Apr 20, 2009
This frenetic era plunged painters and sculptors into a white-hot cauldron of creativity, nurturing artists such as Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Malvina Hoffman and Alice Neel. Overall, the government pumped nearly $5 million into making public art, or the equivalent of roughly $70 million in today's dollars. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Plays author to visit LWLT show Mar 12, 2009
She is the author of two books, Uncommon Women , interviews with nine American legends in the arts: Gwendolyn Brooks, Sarah Caldwell, Julie Harris, Mary McCarthy, Alice Neel, Roberta Peters, Maria Tallchief, Mary Lou Williams and Eugenia Zukerman, photographed by George Kufrin; and the biography, Leo Burnett, Star Reacher. She was also a contributor to the book How Peace Came to the World published by MIT Press. (Lake Wales News, FL)
