Martin Mugar·Jan 12, 2020The nihilist condition and provisional painting a la RubinsteinFlannery O’Conner stated that you could not understand the modern world without understanding nihilism’s central role in moving and…
InARTBLOCbyARTBLOC·Aug 8, 2019Painting’s Death, Celebration & Critique of Its Return (Part II)As disconnected it may seem, painting’s comeback was marked by neo-expressionism, a style in art where direct expression and communication…
Melissa Hanson·Aug 1, 2018Willem Dafoe is Vincent Van Gogh in closing film ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ of the New York Film Festival…Nominated for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year, At Eternity’s Gate (named for a painting of Van Gogh) will close the…
Martin Mugar·Nov 12, 2017The Show goes on. Schnabel (fils) Walter Robinson and the end of Zombie FormalismIt had all become a wonderfully seamless merger of theory and the art it purported to define. Modernism divided by modernism, became…
InThe AwlbyThe Awl·Mar 29, 2011Julian Schnabel’s Painting Encapsulates the Entire History of Painting, and Some Other Stuff Julian…by “David Shapiro”