Craftsmanship is supposed to be one of those old-fashioned virtues that went out of style with Jackson Pollock–at least, if you couldn’t see rhyme or reason in one of his poured paintings, and there were many people who couldn’t, including Harold Rosenberg. Technique and Ambition by Piri Halasz Craftsmanship is supposed to be one of […]

Arte Povera American Style: Funk, Play, Poetry and Labor @ Cleveland Institute of Art / Curated by Julie Langsam and Bruce Checefsky – by Saul Ostrow Arte Povera–that is the movement identified and organized in 1972 by Germano Celant a young art critic was intended was the perhaps the last consciously constructed art movement of […]

Berty Skuber’s travels through the world of labels began more or less by accident and without premeditation in 1995, when her eye was caught by an image that peeked out surreptitiously from the lining of a friend’s or acquaintance’s jacket. Under Penalty of Law by Henry Martin Berty Skuber’s travels through the world of labels […]

All the clich’s are true. How Not To Write An Art Review – With apologies to Anselm and Inka by James Kalm All the clich�s are true. The Market has no heart. Fortune cookies really are profound. The difference between good art, and great art, sometimes amounts to nothing more, than an effective sales pitch. […]

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