The more art I see—and I think in 41 years in the art environment in New York I have seen quite a bit of art—enigma is that aspect of an artist’s work that holds me the longest and the thing that separates one artist from the rest. But enigma does not necessarily make you very […]

Sir Anthony Caro, “Early One Morning.” 1962 © Anthony Caro Estate/Barford Sculptures Ltd. Image courtesy Tate Galleries, under fair use guidelines. If you’re old enough to remember the TV show that inspired the name of this post (both the British original and its American incarnation that aired on NBC a year after the BBC canned […]

The storms are getting worse–more frequent and more intense. And the science that says so blames climate change and points a finger at us. And rightly so. We know that the long term fix is the urgent fix, that we need to build smarter and in smarter places, and that we need to consume less. […]

The print—naked without the frame and the context of a formal space surrounding it—quickly succeeds or fails. Instead of looking at a great Robert Adams photograph, I’m simply looking at a print on a table, in the exact same way that I look at my own work, scrutinizing for flaws and moments of salvation. Photo […]

Def Louise Nevelson ‘Untitled.’ 1981. © Louise Nevelson Foundation, courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York. Remnants: Louise Nevelson & Aaron Siskind 19 September – 2 November ’13 Bruce Silverstein 535 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 212.627.3930 Thirty-two works by Nevelson and Siskind, most of them from early in the artists’ careers, are now […]

Different from his anyway knock-out show at Pace’s uptown gallery in 2010, Robert Ryman: Recent Paintings at Pace on 25th Street is all the more knock-out because daylight is let in. And this being Ryman, light–its kind and quality–is the whole shebang. Here, natural light makes the six small oil on cotton canvas paintings (2010-’11) […]

Aaron Siskind’s photographs from the post-Photo League years feel at first crowded with big, familiar names: Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman. But Siskind, who understood that paint is paint and the camera is different, made pictures that remain wholly his own. Never mind the pervasive sense of Abstract Expressionist gesture in […]

“Once a book is written, I feel that I have said what I had to say… So I decide that it might be best for me to do something else. Lately, this “something else” has been the making of collages…which now seems to have become a fixed daily activity, and one that I have no […]

Tilted Arc concerns the making of art. We engage artists directly, preferring to incorporate their own voice on practice, intention, materiality, installation and inspiration. We do not accept submissions. We publish work that we have seen in the real and followed for years. To keep us informed about your work, or for other questions, concerns […]