October 2026 • What we’re reading

Eleanor Ray, View from salt marsh, 2024, oil on panel, 6 1/2 x 9 inches (courtesy of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery)

Eleanor Ray: The power of the small

Two Coats of Paint

Painting by Joanna Pousette-Dart (courtesy of Lisson Gallery, New York)

Joanna Pousette-Dart: Centering

Brooklyn Rail

Kim Uchiyama, Threshold, 2024, oil on linen (courtesy of the artist and Helm Contemporary, New York)

Kim Uchiyama at Helm Contemporary

The New Criterion

Elizabeth Yamin, The Red Studio at 4 am, 2020-2022, oil on canvas. 40 x 50 inches (courtesy of the artist)

Bosiljka Raditsa and Elizabeth Yamin

Brooklyn Rail

(detail) Franklin Einspruch, Private Life, oil on canvas, 2022 (courtesy of the artist)

Franklin Einspruch: Tangibilia

Tussle

André Masson, Meditation on an Oak Leaf, 1942, oil on canvas, (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Maison de Masson

The New Criterion

Barbara Grossman, Islamic Tiles, 2016, 20×30 inches, oil on linen (courtesy of the artist)

Interview with Barbara Grossman

Painting Perceptions

Dana Saulnier, Three, oil on linen, 76 x 90 x 3 inches, 2023 (courtesy of the artist and First Street Gallery)

Dana Saulnier: Nearly Distant

Looking Glass

Interviews

Art at Kings Oaks

Far from the white cubes and art fairs, Alex Cohen and Clara Weishahn have hand crafted an international exhibition where art rejoins the rhythms of daily life and is a catalyst for community.

Clara Weishahn and Alex Cohen seated within the installation, Tribute to the Artist and Their Family, created by Tali Burry-Schnepp, Henry Murphy, and Ana Neifeld for the 2024 Art at Kings Oaks exhibition. Toad vessel by Karlene Jean Kantner displayed with flowers on the table.

Reviews

Larry Groff at Prince Street Gallery

In Larry Groff's recent paintings, visions of contemporary reality give way to surprising optimism.

Larry Groff, Unbroken Circle, 2023, oil on linen, 24 × 30 inches (courtesy of the artist and Prince Street Gallery)

Artist Writings

On Raoul Dufy

In thinking about the work of his favourite painters Sargy Mann realised that Raoul Dufy was the most extreme example of the separation of line and colour.

Raoul Dufy, Le champ d’avoine, c. 1933, oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm, 25 ⅝ x31 ⅞ inches

Highlights from the archive

NonSite

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Cut Watermelon (Nature morte avec pastèque entamée), ca. 1900, watercolor and pencil on paper, 12 2/5 x 18 3/4 inches (Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland)

Cezanne’s Sensations

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Sargy Mann, Bonnard Studies, Sketchbook, (Sargy Mann estate)

Shared Experience

Brooklyn Rail

Paul Cézanne, Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair, 1877, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 × 22 inches (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd. Photo: © 2017 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

John Elderfield on Cézanne's Portraits

Artlyst

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Overcast Weather, 1899-1903

Claude Monet: Strictly A Revolution In Seeing

Painters on Paintings

Henri Matisse, Laurette in Green Robe (Black Background), 1916, oil on canvas, 28.75 x 21.5 inches (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

John Goodrich on Henri Matisse

New York Review of Books

Laura Owens, Untitled, 66 x 66 inches, 2004 (courtesy of Laura Owens, Collection of Nina Moore)

Laura Owens: Art in Free Fall

London Review of Books

Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress, 1888–90, oil on canvas , 45 7/8 x 35 1/4 inches (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Cézanne Portraits: Relentless Intimacy

Painting Perceptions

Antoine Watteau, Young Woman Wearing a Chemise, ca. 1718, black, red and white chalk, 6 3/4 x 8 inches (Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum)

Watteau's Eloquent Formalism

Hamptons Art Hub

Romare Bearden, River Mist, 1962, mixed media, 54 x 40 inches (The Romare Bearden Foundation, Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, NY © Romare Bearden. Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY)

Romare Bearden: Abstraction

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Figure 6: Pierre Bonnard, The Red Blouse, 1925 (Musée national d'art moderne, Paris)

‘Let it be felt that the painter was there...’

Apollo Magazine

Paul Cézanne, Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair, c. 1877, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 22 inches (Museum of Fine Arts Boston)

Cézanne’s Radical Portraiture

ARTnews

Andre Derain, The Church at Vers, 1912 (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2017, photo: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales)

Leland Bell on André Derain

Christchurch Art Gallery

Bridget Riley, Aria, 2012 (© Bridget Riley 2017)

Bridget Riley: Our Instinct Enhanced

Brooklyn Rail

(detail) Leon Battista Alberti, Della Pittura, illustration published 1804 (Wikimedia Commons)

Against Space

ARTnews

(detai) Alberto Giacometti, Diego Seated, 1948, oil on canvas (©2017 Alberto Giacometti Foundation, ACS, and DACS/Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich)

Giacometti, Frontality and Cubism

AbCrit

Paul Cézanne, Table, Napkin and Fruit, 1895-90 (The Barnes Foundation)

Alan Gouk on Key Modernist Paintings

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Susan Lichtman, Equinox Meal, 2016, oil on linen, 40 x 66 inches (courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects)

Painting's Place: Susan Lichtman at Steven Harvey

New York Review of Books

Camille Pissarro: Hoar Frost (Gelée blanche à Ennery), 1873 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Camille Pissarro: The Perennial Student

London Review of Books

Gillian Ayres, Lure, 1963 (Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist)

Gillian Ayres @ National Museum of Wales

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William Bailey, Pianello, 2001, tempera on paper, 18 x 22 inches (courtesy of the artist and Betty Cuningham Gallery)

Object Permanence: William Bailey at the Century Club

New York Review of Books

Attributed to the Berlin Painter, c. 500–490 BC, detail from Red-figure hydria showing Apollo seated on a winged tripod (Vatican Museums)

The Vitality of the 'Berlin Painter'

Art in America

Florine Stettheimer, Sunday Afternoon in the Country, 1917, oil on canvas, 50 1/2 by 36 1/2 inches (Cleveland Museum of Art)

Florine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive

The Guardian

(detail) LS Lowry, Old Church and Steps, 1960

Making Work for LS Lowry

Hyperallergic

(detail) Roger Bissière, Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1955, oil on canvas, 30-1/4 x 44-7/8 inches (© Bissiere/ADAGP)

Roger Bissière, The Last “Primitive”

The Art Newspaper

(detail) Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Collection © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2017)

Death, Destruction and Deity: Painting Guernica

artcritical

R.B. Kitaj, Los Angeles No.16 (Bed), 2001(courtesy of Marlborough Contemporary)

R.B. Kitaj: Renewal and Resistance

Brooklyn Rail

(detail) Christopher Le Brun, Hereby, 2016 (courtesy the artist)

Christopher Le Brun: Interview

Tamar Zinn

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Rust, Blacks on Plum), 1962, oil on canvas, 60 x 57 inches (Private Collection, Santa Monica © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Photo courtesy of The Mark Rothko Foundation)

Transcending Despair: Rothko, Herrera, Martin

London Review of Books

James Ensor: Skeletons Fighting for the Body of a Hanged Man, 1891

James Ensor @ The Royal Academy

ARTnews

(detail) Francis Picabia, Je revois en souvenir ma chère Udnie (I See Again in Memory My Dear Udnie), 1914, oil on canvas (photo: Museum of Modern Art John Wronn; Art: ©2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY and ADAGP, Paris/Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Philip Pearlstein on Francis Picabia

The Art Newspaper

Werner Mannaers, The Palermo Series (Chapter 2), 2015, mixed media and collage on canvas, 180 x 160 cm (courtesy of the artist)

Barbara Rose on Painting After Postmodernism

Powers of Observation

Euan Uglow, Curled nude on a stool, 1982-3, oil on canvas 30 x 39 inches

Notes on Euan Uglow

Art F City

Julie Mehretu, Conjured Parts (eye), Ferguson, 2016, ink and acrylic on canvas, 84 x 96 inches (courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery)

Julie Mehretu: Can Social Abstraction Succeed?

Hyperallergic

(detail) Florine Stettheimer, Nude Self-Portrait, c. 1915, oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 68 1/4 inches (courtesy of Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University)

Florine Stettheimer: Feminist Provocateur

London Review of Books

J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway, 1844 (National Gallery, London)

The Chase: Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed

Hyperallergic

(detail) Frank Stella, Gobba, zoppa e collotorto, 1985, oil, urethane enamel, fluorescent alkyd, acrylic, and printing ink on etched magnesium and aluminum, 137 × 120 1/8 × 34 3/8 inches (The Art Institute of Chicago, © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society)

Rhetorical Abstraction in the Age of the Incidental Viewer

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Pat Passlof, Untitled, circa 1950s, oil on paper, 14 x 17 inches (courtesy of Elizabeth Harris Gallery)

Pat Passlof: Paintings from the 50s

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John Walker, Drift, 2014, 84 x 66 inches (courtesy of Alexandre Gallery)

John Walker at Alexandre Gallery

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Chaim Soutine, Brace of Pheasants, ca. 1926 (Private collection)

Soutine: Art More Like Life

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Alan Gouk, Knotgrass Elegy, 2003-11, oil on canvas, 91 x 241 cm (courtesy of the artist and Poussin Gallery)

Abstract Critical: Round-up

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Brenda Goodman, Look Out, 2014, oil on paper on wood, 10 x 10 inches (courtesy of the artist and John Davis Gallery)

Brenda Goodman: Interview

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Ying Li, Ascona Clouds, 2013, oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches (courtesy of the artist)

Ying Li: Foreign Terrain

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Milton Resnick at his Eldridge St. Studio, c. 1980 (photo: Arthur Mones)

Milton Resnick: Painting to Live

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Georges Braque, Baluster and Skull (recto), 1938, c. 1932-33 (Private Collection)

Braque at the Phillips Collection

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Camille Pissarro, L'Hermitage in Summer, Pontoise, 1877 (Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York)

Justice to Pissarro

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Jon Imber, Upside Down Guy (Falling Painter), 1979, oil on canvas, 63 x 56 inches (courtesy of the artist)

Jon Imber's Painterly Freedom

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Nicolas de Staël, Agrigente, 1953, oil on canvas, 35 by 51 1/8 inches (courtesy of Mitchell-Innes and Nash)

Nicolas de Staël: Needs to be Seen

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Al Held, The Yellow X, 1965, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 144 inches: Installation View, Al Held: Alphabet Paintings at Cheim & Read, New York (image courtesy of Cheim & Read)

Al Held's Visual Thresholds

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Nick Miller, Steel Yard and Mountain I, 2011, oil on linen, 56 x 61 cms (courtesy of the artist and Rubicon Gallery)

Nick Miller's Truckscapes

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(detail) Jan Müller, Walpurgisnacht-Faust I, 1956 (courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art)

Jan Müller’s Abstract Tale

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Clyfford Still, PP 241, 1936, pastel on paper, © Clyfford Still Museum

The Drawings of Clyfford Still

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(detail) Gabriel Laderman, The House of Death and Life, 1984-85 (source: midwest paint group)

Gabriel Laderman on Art