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Jack Rutberg keeps hitting them out of the ballpark, which is not a particularly good way of keeping me out of his gallery. This time the home run is a show featuring some early works from the artist George Condo … Continue reading →

Anyone remember the late Gallery C? What really stays with you about that gallery was its behemothic space. And now in Inglewood a humongous space for art again comes to our neighborhood.  How big? Thirty-two thousand four hundred square feet, … Continue reading →

I was not planning to review another Jack Rutberg show so soon, but he continues to organize exhibitions well worth writing about. The first word that came to mind when I recently entered his Gallery was “smorgasbord,” since the works … Continue reading →

Amedeo Modigliani is one of the ten most “faked” artists ever, with at least a thousand forgeries of his work floating about at any given time–that is, according to Meryle Secrest’s excellent new biography entitled Modigliani – A Life. Not … Continue reading →

There are movies that we never forget, couldn’t even if we tried to, they were that good. And the same can be said of past galleries that were once filled with great art; they too remain embedded in our minds. … Continue reading →

In the late 1950’s, the artist Adolph Gottlieb told Selden Rodman, “We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non representational paintings.” Well so much for the hubris of those days, but then it really did seem as though … Continue reading →