UPDATE: Shortly after Carl Belz and I put together this post of our top ten favorites, Carl died. Scroll down to the bottom of this post to see my tribute to him. *** Followers of this blog ...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/so-long-for-now.html
By Charles Kessler Installation view, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art. In the foreground is John Mason's Untitled, Vertical Sculpture, 1961, glazed stoneware, 30 x 15 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches; a...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-ceramic-presence-in-modern-art-at_23.html
By Charles Kessler As I stated before , The Picasso Sculpture exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (through February 7th) is like a huge (159 works!) group exhibition of a dozen great s...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/more-on-picassos-sculptures.html
By Charles Kessler I'm really impressed by Christian Ruiz Berman's striking show at Outlet , 253 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11237 (through December 6th). Like heraldry or icons, Berman's work...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-selection-of-bushwick-exhibitions.html
By Carl Belz John Goodyear, Up and Down Movement, 1966, 24 x 24 x 4 inches (Berry Campbell Gallery, New York). Wellesley, MA in 2012. It is reprinted here in conjunction with the exhibitio...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/rewind-and-reflect-john-goodyear.html
By Charles Kessler There is little I can add to Roberta Smith's enthusiastic review of Frank Stella: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through Feb. 7th), and there are...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/frank-stella-retrospective-at-whitney.html
By Charles Kessler I've known John for at least forty years, but I don't love his art just because we're friends. As with Charles Garabedian, I loved John's art, so I made it a point to get to ...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/john-lees-at-betty-cuningham-gallery.html
By Charles Kessler Here are highlights from the 19 Bushwick galleries I went to last week. I tried to get at least one good photo of each; a closeup detail, if I thought it might be useful; an...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-selection-of-bushwick-exhibitions.html
By Charles Kessler Kongo: Power and Majesty at the Metropolitan Museum (through January 3rd) is a major exhibition with 146 works borrowed from sixty different sources in the United States and...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/kongo-power-and-majesty.html
By Charles Kessler I’ve been going to a lot of dance performances lately – about 20 of them in the last few months, and I've noticed that the performing arts, modern dance in particular, ca...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/modern-dance-reality-authenticity.html
By Charles Kessler Yesterday I attended Robert Ashley's 1980s opera "Perfect Lives" – a day-long event that took place in seven different venues spread out all over Jersey City. It was prese...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/robert-ashleys-opera-perfect-lives.html
By Charles Kessler Opening Reception of Picasso Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY. I was lucky enough to be invited to the opening reception of Picasso Sculpture at the Museum of Mode...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/picasso-sculpture-at-moma.html
Charles Garabedian in his studio, August 24, 2012. At 91, Charles Garabedian remains one of the most vital living artists. I've known him since the 1970s and, as I wrote in a post about his ...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/charles-garabedian-update.html
By Charles Kessler Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Self-Portrait as a Photographer, 1924, oil on canvas, 20 ½ x 30 ¼ inches (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). In the 1920s Kuniyoshi supported him...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/yasoi-kuniyoshi-at-smithsonian-museum.html
By Charles Kessler Seventh floor terrace of the New Whitney Museum (New York Review of Books , image by Nic Lehoux). I hate the museum that Renzo Piano designed for Harvard , a ponderous b...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-new-whitney-museum.html
By Charles Kessler As I wrote in the previous post , I quit painting about eight years ago and was about to throw away all the art I had in storage when I was offered a retrospective. I've been...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/retrospective-reflections.html
By Charles Kessler For 12 years I divided my time between continuing my work as an artist and leading a campaign, as a volunteer citizen activist, to save and develop a ten-block area of histo...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-i-quit-painting.html
By Charles Kessler Readers of this blog know I hardly ever write about dance, even though I love it and go to at least one or two dance concerts every month; and I've never written about opera....
By Charles Kessler The Enid A. Haupt Garden behind the Smithsonian Castle. My friend Tom Wolf curated a major Yasuo Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art (thro...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/four-days-in-washington-d-c.html
By Charles Kessler Sculpture in the Age of Donatello is at the Museum of Biblical Art (1865 Broadway at 61st Street, through June 14th). All the work in this exhibition was made in the first...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/sculpture-in-age-of-donatello.html
By Charles Kessler There have been a lot of good shows in Bushwick lately. Here are one or two images each from some of my favorites, and links to more images and information. FRED VALENTINE :...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/bushwick-galleries-photo-essay.html
By Charles Kessler I love the Met for the small shows they do. These shows are hardly ever reviewed or even publicized, so you have to find out about them either on the Met's website , spot ...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/small-shows-currently-at-met.html
By Charles Kessler Except for older art, and new art by older artists, I wasn't impressed with anything I saw in Chelsea last week. This is not a reflection on contemporary art in general, or C...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/oldies-but-goodies-in-chelsea.html
By Charles Kessler Detail: Paul Cézanne, Portrait of the Artist, n.d., graphite on paper, 13 ½ x 11 ¼ inches (Metropolitan Museum Of Art). Cézanne often painted the same subject over a...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/cezannes-portraits-of-madame-cezanne-at.html
by Carl Belz (Author's note: Facebook friends Debra Ramsay and Alex Paik have teamed up for an exhibition titled "Generative Processes," for which they invited me to contribute the follo...
http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/debra-ramsay-and-alex-paik-letting-ego.html