by Jeff Maisey | Nov 16, 2016 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Little boys build forts in the woods. When they grow up, one of them at least builds fortresses. Although fortress isn’t quite the right term for what Patrick Doughtery builds. Birds nest, indigenous tribe dwelling, boma, nor “folly”—those...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 15, 2016 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Elegant and austere, Norwood Viviano’s gracefully attenuated and pendant and occasionally funnel-like “plumb bob” forms are, in fact, three-dimensional graphs of population growth and decline in 25 US cities from New York to Flint, Michigan,...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 30, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Jerome Langston Whether he is staring at the camera stoically, wearing mirrored sunglasses, or laughing with Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, or Ann Magnuson at Danceteria, Tseng embodies the essence of the 1980s; not only its extravagant social life but also its...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Maybe it was the opportunity to meet the artist, drive a golf cart on a beautiful late-summer day, and help install one of the outdoor sculptures for her show. Or maybe it was the opening party: settling with close friends into chi-chi white lounge...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio The Hermitage is an historic house museum. But it’s not just an historic house museum, nor even the same historic house museum that it once was. While it could be said that any museum is never quite the same as the day before, the staff and...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 14, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio “Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit” is a uniquely seductive concept for an exhibition, as visitors are made to feel as though we are walking through his studio space. Organized by the VA Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, MOCA’s installation of the...
