January preVIEW

Each month, Librarian & Archivist Holly Frisbee highlights articles, reviews, and interviews from the current issues of our periodical collection. Take a moment to check them out and let us know what you think!

Bo Bartlett

• Anderson, Kristen. “Zero Hour: The Art of Jean-Pierre Roy.” Hi-Fructose. Jan 2011. 31-41. An interview with academy faculty Jean-Pierre Roy. Lots of pictures.
  
  
• Gormley, Michael. “Bo Bartlett and the American Dream.” American Artist. Mar/April 2011. 33-39. A look at Bo Bartlett’s most recent work.
  
  
• Gregg, Gail. “Nothing like the Real Thing.” ArtNews. Dec 2011. 68-71. After decades out of fashion, the practice of drawing from life models is growing in popularity.
  
  

  

  Jim Nutt

  
  
• Hull, Richard. “Gladys Nilsson/ Jim Nutt.” Bomb. Winter 2010. 50-59. Painter Richard Hull interviews the legendary couple at their home. They talk shop about the Hairy Who and Chicago Imagism, Bruegel, and El Greco.
  
  
• Jenney, Neil, Kelley, Mike, et. al. “Six Views of Paul Thek.” Artforum. Artforum invited six distinguished artists and writers to ruminate on Thek’s life and work. Paul Thek’s first retrospective, Diver, is currently on view at the Whitney.
  
  

  

  Judy Fox

  
  
• Landi, Ann. “A Case of Caravaggiomania.” ARTNews. Jan 2011. 101-105. The bad boy of Baroque is back in style with scholars, museumgoers, filmmakers, and even video artists.
  
  
• Morgan, Eleanor. “John Baldessari.” Believer. Dec 2010. 45-52. Things John Baldessari avoids at all costs: Repeating himself; Making art that’s a parody of his previous work; Throwing things in the trash.
  
  
• Shull, Jodie A. “The World of Judy Fox: Power in Paradox.” Sculpture Review. Fall 2010. 12-15. A profile of Academy faculty member Judy Fox.

PreView: October Issues

Each month, the Academy library highlights articles, features, and reviews from the most current issues of our extensive periodical collection.
Check these out and then let us know what you think!

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• Gormley, Michael. "Painting Life: Galina Perova and the Portrait Society of America.” American Artist. (2010). 48-55.  A review of Galina Perova’s work, and a new look at portraiture from life.

• Mennin, Mark. “Messerschmidt: An Accidental Visionary.” Huffington Post. 09/21/10. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-mennin/messerschmidt-at-the-neue_b_720941.html    Academy faculty member Mark Mennin reviews the Messerschmidt show at the Neue Gallerie.

• Muchnic, Suzanne. “A False Sense of Security.” ARTnews. (2010). 109:9. 90-93.  Even as artists embrace environmental practices, they ignore or remain uninformed about the toxic materials in their own studios.

 



• Ross, Alex. “Searching for Silence: John Cage’s Art of Noise.” The New Yorker. (2010). 56-61. John Cage's ideas, art, and music.



• Wilkin, Karen."Robert Taplin, Recent Narratives.” Sculpture. (2010). 29:8. 37-41.  A review of Academy faculty member Robert Taplin’s tableaux works.

Robert Taplin, Detail from Across the Dark Waters
(The River Acheron), 2007, wood, resin, plaster
and lights, 84 x 94 x 50 in.



• Storr, Robert. “Reading Richter.” Art in America. (2010). 69-76. Three new books prompt critical praise and protest from the organizer of Gerhard Richter’s 2002 MOMA retrospective.

• Princenthal, Nancy. “Sculpture in a Contracted Field.” Art in America. (2010). 165-169.  An exhibition of recent large-scale outdoor pieces by six young artists in New York’s City Hall park sparks an inquiry into the role of the figure in contemporary art and the function of public sculpture today.

• Shields, David. “Fred Tomaselli.” Interview. Bomb Magazine. (2010). 66-73.
  The influence of California counter-culture on Tomaselli's visionary paintings. 

Field Guides, 2003, photo collage, gouache, acrylic,
and resin on wood, 60×84 inches. Image courtesy of
Bomb Magazine and James Cohan Gallery, NY.