The Easel | Art journalism

5th June 2015

Lingua Photographica

Gene McHugh | Aperture | 1st March 2015

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Chuck Close in Conversation with Robert Storr

Interview | Guild Hall | 20th August 2013

[Supplementary to The Easel of 1/31/15]

The Cretan Paradox

Morgan Meis | The Smart Set | 17th February 2015

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Van Gogh: The Courage and the Cunning

Michael Kimmelman | New York Review of Books | 5th February 2015

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Rethinking Duchamp

Barbara Rose | The Brooklyn Rail | 18th December 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614)

Keith Christiansen | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 15th May 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

The 100 Coolest Americans Gather at the National Portrait Gallery

William O’Connor | Daily Beast | 7th February 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Rand Paul Says Only the Rich Enjoy the Arts. A New Study Just Proved Him Wrong

Nora Caplan-Bricker | The New Republic | 6th February 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

New Order II: British Art Today, Saatchi Gallery – exhibition review

Brian Sewell | London Evening Standard | 6th February 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

How I learned to see

Simon Grant | Tate | 5th February 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the Selfie

Jerry Saltz | Vulture | 4th February 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Chinese Art Market

Chris Moore | arttactic | 1st February 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Ponte City: A Portrait of Johannesburg

Alexander Strecker | Lensculture | 30th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Why Anthony Caro Broke The Rules

William Feaver | artnet news | 27th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Final Ascent: Joseph Beuys and the Languages of Art

Thomas Micchelli | Hyperallergic | 25th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

In Paris, Punk’s Curatorial Redemption

Joseph Nechvatal | Hyperallergic | 24th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

David Hockney: the poets that make me paint

Blake Morrison | The Guardian | 24th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Italy displays rich trove of stolen art recovered by police

Naomi O’Leary | Reuters | 23rd January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

A Critics’ Roundtable on Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim

Editors | Artcritical | 22nd January 2014

TAGS: Berger John, photography, art criticism, book review

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: The unknown history

Alastair Sooke | BBC | 21st January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

On John Berger’s “Understanding a Photograph”

Staff | Bookforum | 17th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

John Baldessari’s Unforgivingly Humorous Art

Alex Greenberger | artspace | 13th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Re-thinking German Art

Jackie Wullschlager | ft.com | 17th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Lost in the Gallery-Industrial Complex – Holland Cotter Looks at Money in Art

Holland Cotter | New York Times | 17th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Post-revolutionary Iranian art at the SOAS

Gareth Harris | ft.com | 17th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Michael Wolf photographs the architecture of density

Nina Azzarello | Designboom | 16th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World’s Most Essential Zelig

Carl Swanson | Vulture | 12th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Brassaï’s Cloak of Night

Luc Sante | New York Review of Books | 8th January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

Art’s Dirty, Big Secret

Christian Viveros - Faune | The Village Voice | 1st January 2014

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

At the Guggenheim

John-Paul Stonard | London Review of Books | 18th December 2013

[Included in beta versions of The Easel]

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