March 31, 2008
Minor Milestone
This evening I published on Artforum.com a "Critics' Pick" review of Daan van Golden's exhibition at Greene Naftali Gallery. It is my one-hundredth review for the Artforum website, a minor milestone I couldn't have imagined reaching when Elizabeth Schambelan, now my longtime colleague, invited me to begin contributing to the site in late 2003. Here's to one hundred more. The review begins:
Art historian Svetlana Alpers’s observation about golden-age painters, that “it is hard to trace stylistic development, as we are trained to call it, in the work of Dutch artists,” applies to reclusive septuagenarian artist Daan van Golden. This exhibition, his first US solo presentation despite his being greatly esteemed in Europe, surveys canvases made in the last fifteen years but is representative of an extremely focused practice that has lasted over four decades.
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