Get Visual: Unraveling at Opalka Gallery
The artist Yura Adams has curated an important show at Russell Sage College's Opalka Gallery in Albany that features three other artists and herself. While it’s generally a…
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Get Visual: Closing museums now is the wrong move
Frustration. Disappointment. Perplexity. These are a few of the emotions I experienced after reading a Washington Post report that the Smithsonian and National Gallery of Art…
Get Visual: D. Jack Solomon at LGAP
A favorite artist and a favorite venue have teamed up to produce something special this fall. Sixteen paintings by D. Jack Solomon currently fill the Lake George Arts…
Get Visual: Regionals, Regionals…
Thanks in part to the coronavirus pandemic, we now have a perfect storm of regional exhibitions that are all on view simultaneously. With three annual juried shows having…
Get Visual: MASS MoCA, At Last
A recent survey reported that just 13% of Americans are happy - the other 87%, may simply need a visit to MASS MoCA.
A view of James Turrell's Into the Light at MASS MoCA
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Get Visual: Recycled and Refashioned: The Art of Ruby Silvious at AIHA
It's no secret that the greater Capital Region has long been home to a rich community of visual artists. The reasons for this are many, including location, job opportunities,…
Get Visual: Galleries are re-opening! (Part III)
When I heard galleries were starting to emerge from the pandemic darkness and open their doors again to visitors, I beat a path to Hudson, which has the busiest gallery scene…
Get Visual: Galleries are re-opening! (Part II)
As New York State’s Phase 4 of reopening kicks into gear, many major museums are getting there, too.
After months of utter drought, the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown…
Get Visual: Galleries are re-opening! (Part I)
Whether by appointment only, masked and sanitized, or take a number and wait, greater Capital Region galleries are starting to re-open with fresh shows, and it feels good to…
Get Visual: Spookily prescient
Don't you just love a good coincidence? I know I do.
Though my daily routine is only lightly influenced by the current stay-at-home normality (as I stopped working a bit…
Get Visual: What will the exhibition spaces do?
When The New York Times published its seasonal special section on museums on Friday, March 13, it was already too late. That day, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic,…
Dear David / Hi Jan: Brickman & Galligan Discuss Film
The following account represents an actual email correspondence between two art-buddies, and is bookended by excerpts from the original script of the film 1917, which is the…
Best of 2019: David Brickman’s Best Films of the Year
Well, I'm a little late to the party, but I have a couple of good excuses - and, anyway, at least I get to publish my list before the Oscars are announced this evening. Proud…
Get Visual: Michelle Bowen’s Solo Exhibition at ACCR
A unique concept drives the current solo exhibition titled Huelitic Code: Language Through a Prism, which features prints and paintings by Michelle Bowen at the Arts Center…
Get Visual: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Is Mother Nature an artist? That question came to mind as I perused the mind-blowing collection of minerals at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History in New…
Get Visual: Group Shows Galore
It's the time of the year when galleries, both commercial and public, put on those crowd-pleasing shows with lots of artists and, often, smaller/more affordable work for…
Get Visual: Embody at Mandeville Gallery
There's always a mystery to strong group shows - does the curator start with a theme and then find artists that fit it, or does she start with some art she likes, and then…
Get Visual: Ken Ragsdale at LGAP and Upstate Invitational at Laffer Gallery
Two shows worth a look are going to end soon - maybe you can find a way to squeeze them in around the holiday crush.
Ken Ragsdale: Memory as Process Revisited, at the Lake…
Get Visual: 2019 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region at The Hyde Collection
The Annual Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region has rotated to The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls this year and, as ever, it is a must-see show for…
Get Visual: Pulse at Carrie Haddad Gallery
An outstanding show of abstract art is currently on view at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, but you'll need to get there soon, as it closes on Sept. 15. Pulse: Color &…
Get Visual: Renoir: The Body, The Senses and Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow at…
Each summer's must-see show is usually at The Clark (aka the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) in Williamstown, Mass., and this year is no exception. But Renoir: The…
Get Visual: Basquiat x Warhol at The School
Summer in the greater Capital Region means blockbuster art exhibitions, and 2019 is no exception. However, despite Renoir being at the Clark, Sloan at the Hyde, and Ritts at…
Get Visual: Fence Select 19 at ACCR
Each year in the Capital Region two big shows provide an opportunity for local artists to expose their latest work and for art fans to see a broad range of what the regional…