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by Abhilasha Singh
Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Thomas Eakins, Sherrie Levine, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Cindy Sherman, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum May 20th, 2011 - September 11th, 2011
Posted 6/26/11

Shared Intelligence will be the first major museum exhibition to survey the fraught but highly productive relationship of painting to photography in 20th-Century American Art. It brings together approximately 75 photographs and paintings by such artists as Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Thomas Eakins, Sherrie Levine, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cindy Sherman, Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn, Edward Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz for whom the two mediums were essential to their practices.In opposition to Modernis... [more]

They Knew What They Wanted From What Was Available

by Chris Fitzpatrick
Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lutz Bacher, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Bechtle, E.J. Bellocq, Alighiero e Boetti, Miriam Bohm, Los Carpinteros, Vija Celmins, Gregory Crewdson, Jim Dine, Lee Friedlander, Maureen Gallace, Katy Grannan, Charlie Harper, Peter Hujar, Jordan Kantor, Matt Keegan, Henri Matisse, Barry McGee, Tom McKinley, Richard McLean, Richard Misrach, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, Mitzi Pederson, Trevor Plagen, Robert Rauschenberg, Linda Ridgway, Will Rogan, Ed Ruscha, Iran do Espirito Santo, Sara VanDerBeek, Garth Weiser, Henry Wesset, Rachel Whiteread, William Wiley, Garry Winogrand, Steve Wolfe at Fraenkel Gallery July 1st, 2010 - August 21st, 2010
Posted 7/12/10

“They Knew What They Wanted” invokes something in-between a hit-man’s overture and a ‘50s girl-group’s jukebox breakup. But instead the phrase serves as the title of an exhibition that spans four commercial galleries in San Francisco: Altman Siegel, John Berggruen, Fraenkel, and Ratio 3. Each gallery asked a different artist from their roster to select the works from the backrooms, storage shelves, and flat files of all four spaces, yet the results are posited as a single exhibition... [more]

Debating Photorealism with David Nicholson

by Ana Finel Honigman
Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Ron Kleeman, Richard McLean, Malcolm Morley, John Salt, Ben Schonzeit at Deutsche Guggenheim March 7th, 2009 - May 10th, 2009
Posted 4/28/09

David Nicholson and I discuss "Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s" over dinner at Berlin's Cafe Fleury. Ana Finel Honigman: We’ve been talking almost every day about the Photorealist show since I saw it last week. Yet it always feels to me like we’re talking about two totally different shows. Instead of just reviewing it for ArtSlant, I thought it would be more interesting to tape our conversation and see what we’re actually saying to each other. David Nicholson: What ar... [more]