ART FAIRSHAMPTONS CRITIC’S VIEW: Market Art + Design Brings Back Buzz with Bigger and Better Fair by James Croak Bridgehampton, NY: This weekend the Brooklyn-based survivor of the East End major art fair sorting, Market Art + Design, opened its...
Book Reviews BOOK REVIEW: “Back to Blood” by Tom Wolfe by James Croak On the occasion of Tom Wolfe's death, Hamptons Art Hub revives a book review written by James Croak for "Back To Blood," Wolfe's final...
ART FAIRSNEW YORK CITY CRITIC’S VIEW: Politics Left Behind, Armory Show 2018 Keeps Pace with Changing Face of Art World by James Croak The annual Armory Show opened this week with a five-acre exhibition sprawling across Piers 92 & 94 on the West side of Manhattan....
EssaysHAMPTONS Essay: In Search of the Ancient Origins of Today’s Photorealism by James Croak The current strong survey exhibition, “From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today,” currently at the Parrish Art Museum...
Art ReviewsHAMPTONS ART REVIEW: The Quiet Poetry of Mary Heilmann’s Paintings at Dan Flavin by James Croak The artist Mary Heilmann is having a moment. Her current show at of the DIA Art Foundation's Dan Flavin Art Institute in...
ReviewsPerformance ArtHAMPTONS Critic’s View: Performance Art at Watermill Center Gala Prods Consciousness through Action, Not Theory by James Croak Diogenes was probably the first performance artist, appearing in the 4th century BCE and living into the next. Unattached, mobile,...
ART FAIRSHAMPTONS CRITIC’S VIEW: Upstairs Art Fair Is a Rewarding Reimagining of the Form for The Hamptons by James Croak We’ve see a lean summer thus far, wherein two regular Hamptons summer cultural events withdrew due to poor market conditions. Both...
ReviewsHAMPTONS ART REVIEW: Stephen Hannock Paintings Breathe New Life into Romanticism by James Croak The glorification of nature as an emotive and cerebral referent was a powerful movement that captured the attention of the European...
Art ReviewsHamptons & East End ART REVIEW: John Graham Revealed as a Modernist Polymath Ahead of His Time by James Croak He spoke as many as 12 languages, had five wives, influenced Jackson Pollock and lived in Southampton. What’s not to like? John D....
ReviewsHAMPTONS ART REVIEW: In “Black & White” Show at Tripoli, Art Activated with Idea by James Croak For amusement sometime, take a thick, print (not online) art magazine stuffed with gallery ads and rotate it upside down. Turn the...
Art ReviewsMUSEUMSNEW YORK CITY ART REVIEW: In a Whitney Biennial Favoring Ideas, a Few Works Stand Out by James Croak The 78th Whitney Biennial survey of the art scene opens this week at the museum’s spacious new location in downtown Manhattan. The...
ART FAIRSArt ReviewsNEW YORK CITY CRITIC’S VIEW: At Armory 2017, Abstraction Resurges by James Croak “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter…like a good...
Art ReviewsHAMPTONS ART REVIEW: Parrish Exhibit Reveals the Power of Artists Choosing Artists by James Croak It takes about three seconds to know if one should spend five minutes. This conclusion applies to anyone listening to the wide variety...
Art ReviewsHAMPTONS ART REVIEW: In With the Tide—A Buoyant Exhibit Rewards at Southampton Arts Center by James Croak The Southampton Arts Center continues to punch above its weight with a large summer show of substantial works by mostly well-known...
ART FAIRSArt ReviewsHAMPTONS CRITIC’S VIEW: Art Southampton – Art of the Nude and Plenty of Programs by James Croak The East End’s largest and most elaborate art fair has descended for the second year onto the grounds of Nova’s Ark Project on...
Art ReviewsHAMPTONS COMMENTARY: For Peter Beard, a Career Devoted to Beauty and Beasts by James Croak Artists receive critiques when they are young and malleable and then later after they have passed, as historians sort their...
Art ReviewsNORTH FORK ART REVIEW: Three Photographers Explore Mystery and Variety of Flowers by James Croak The concentrated beauty of Long Island is varied and extreme: blistering nor’easters, acres of snow pack, the green world of ...
MUSEUMS Critic’s View: The Broad Museum Reflects Transformation of West Coast Art World by James Croak There’s an old joke that America is on a tilt and everything that’s a little loose rolls into California. That aphorism might...