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Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Selections from the Wornick Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 10, 2007 - January 6, 2008
So just after I get my craft rant off my chest (two posts down), I get a press notice for this upcoming exhibition at the Boston MFA:
Shy Boy, She Devil, […]

Private dealer Richard Polsky has just written one of the more clear-headed discourses on the state of the current contemporary art market that I have read in a long while.

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/polsky/polsky04-02-07.asp
I, like Polsky, scratch my head at the crazy auction prices for artists like Marlene Dumas and Peter Doig. These are painters I look at and […]

The Abstract Expressionist painters were a moody lot. Jackson Pollock had a penchant for belting back prodigious amounts of liquor and then brawling. Willem de Kooning, no slouch himself in the juice department, womanized and shared gutters with Bowery bums. Arshile Gorky was a stormy, temperamental loner. And Mark Rothko? He had a rep for […]

Craft in America
A three-part PBS documentary (in HD) airing May 30,2007
Includes companion book and traveling national exhibition
How many times have I heard a glass, wood, ceramic, metal or fiber artist lamenting that their work is too often only relegated to the ghetto of craft?
Too many.
Take a look at the prices at high-end studio […]