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Arts Long Island: Studio in Stony Brook, Heart in the Desert

For more than three decades, Mel Pekarsky has devoted himself to painting the desert. This is especially interesting given that he lives in Port Jefferson Station and has his studio in Stony Brook, where for 35 years he was a professor of art at Stony ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stony Brook University

Art Review | Connecticut: The Nature of Time, Ever Passing

By my count, it has been more than six years since the curators at the Yale University Art Gallery organized a show of contemporary art in all media. That is difficult to understand, given that the museum collects in this area and primarily serves ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roni Horn,  Yale University

Art Review | Long Island: After Independence, the Search for Self

“Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia and Ravi Akhoury and Shelley and Donald Rubin,” a small but engaging show at the Hofstra University Museum, illustrates how Indian artists embraced modernity after the end ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hofstra University

Art Review | Connecticut: Real Rembrandts, and the Also-Rans

For years, the Wadsworth Atheneum was one of the premier museums in the nation. But as Hartford has gone into economic decline, so have the fortunes of the museum, with successive directors needing to severely cut staff and exhibition budgets to stay ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rembrandt,  National Gallery of Art,  Wadsworth Atheneum,  Metropolitan Museum of Art

With a Tranquil Air, a Respite From Fast-Paced Lives

One virtue of the scaled-back plan for the new Parrish Art Museum by the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is that it is only slightly smaller than the previous version. Although the new design is less ambitious architecturally, it encompasses ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Parrish Art Museum,  Larry Rivers,  James Abbott McNeill Whistler,  William Merritt Chase,  Childe Hassam

Sampling Whitman and Art From the Civil War

The current exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art “Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era” is a didactic sort of show, centering on representations of historical events in American art and about the literature of ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Walt Whitman,  Winslow Homer,  Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art Review | Long Island: Minimal Abstraction: It’s Alive and Well

The exhibition by Avital Oz at Art Sites in Riverhead, a powerful, rambling display of almost 50 pieces in metal, stone, wood, rubber and other materials, not only contains many fine works, it also gives us an overview of the artist’s career, spanning ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sol LeWitt

Art Review | Westchester: Sampling Whitman and Art From the Civil War

The current exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art “Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era” is a didactic sort of show, centering on representations of historical events in American art and about the literature of ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Walt Whitman,  Winslow Homer,  Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arts | Long Island: Behind the Sentiment

The public’s admiration for Norman Rockwell demonstrates the enduring power and allure of realism in art. The advent of photography should have rendered realism redundant. But there is something about the aesthetic wizardry of it the raw talent ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Norman Rockwell,  Nassau County Museum of Art,  Boy Scouts of America,  Ruby Bridges

Arts | Connecticut: Taking Conceptual Art on the Road

The caravan parked in the middle of a wide lawn adjacent to the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University looks a bit like a conventional trailer, but it has some unexpected features: half of one of the walls is folded down, creating a deck, ...

From BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

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