The Exceptional Frick Collection Has A Captivating, Temporary New Home
May 6, 2021
With travel restrictions easing and vaccine seeping into my genes, like a ginormous swallow coming back to San Juan Capistrano I recently returned to Manhattan.
For many decades, New York has been the center of the international art world, regardless of whether one is drawn to old, very old, modern, or very modern things. So, after more than a year away from a city that experienced quite a tumult during my absence, reconnecting with the Frick Collection and getting a sense of how both it and the city are doing was a welcome opportunity to appreciate the present and be hopeful for the future.
Carroll Dunham | Albert Oehlen
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“For decades, Albert Oehlen and Carroll Dunham have subjected painting to a constant stress test, breaking it down into its components: colour, materiality, and brushwork, line, structure, layering, technique, title, pathos, iconography, and the disappointment and expectation of the recipient.” – Olga Nevzorova
Galerie Max Hetzler, London is pleased to announce Carroll Dunham | Albert Oehlen, a joint exhibition of paintings which explores the stylistic diversity of two of the most innovative pain
William T. Wiley, âFunk Artistâ Who Spurned Convention, Dies at 83
Rooted in the Bay Area, he disdained commerce (and the New York scene, mostly), produced an eclectic kind of figurative art and imparted his âWiz-dumbâ to disciples.
William T. Wiley loaded up his art as if it were his scrapbook, depicting figures, landscapes, perhaps images of nuclear reactors and the despoliation of the natural environment.Credit.William T. Wiley/Hosfelt Gallery
By Deborah Solomon
Published May 5, 2021Updated May 18, 2021
William T. Wiley, the influential artist and educator who helped found the funk art movement and establish the San Francisco Bay Area art scene as an unfiltered alternative to what he saw as the flagrant commercialism of New York, died on April 25 in a hospital in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 83.