Martin MugarDennis Hollingsworth“Nice piece, by the way. Text, peeking. Ground margins. Geometry tweaking.” (comment from NY artist Dennis Hollingsworth)Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin MugarCharles Giuliano’s 150 years celebration and survey of the Boston Museum of Fine ArtsCharles Giuliano This document of the 150 year history of the Museum of Fine Arts is mostly cobbled together from interviews by Charles…Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin MugarDivagations on Jed Perl’s second volume of “Calder”As I began to think about finishing my reading and reviewing Jed Perl’s monumental second volume of the life of Calder, the art world was…Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin MugarGiuliano’s sister Pip’s travels abroad bring back memories of France in the 70’s and my…I had hitchhiked my way up from the Midi to Alsace via Paris where I spent some time with Alix and then moved on to find more work as a…Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin MugarIs there a Connection between Materiality and Painting from the French Deconstructionists to Ha…Almost a year after I wrote my essay in 2013 on Zombie Abstraction I got an email from Mark Stone at https://henrimag.com/ that I had…Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin Mugar“Authority and Freedom” by Jed PerlIn his latest book “Authority and Freedom”, Perl establishes a paradigm that spells out a healthy antidote to the purpose for which art is…Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin MugarGuston at the MFA BostonSince I saw the Guston show last Fall at the MFA Boston, I have been hoping to write a review of his work. Should be something easy to…Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin Mugar“Everything in life is drawing” Richard TuttleI showed with Tuttle once thanks to Addison Parks who had a Tuttle in his private collection. It may have been a gift from Tuttle who at…Oct 14, 2023Oct 14, 2023
Martin MugarWinters,Held,Kiefer and Rothenberg at the MetSummer at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMay 21, 2020May 21, 2020
Martin MugarAs Good as it gets on the internetI put my blogposts on Medium, a site that promotes writing on the web. My writing rarely gets any feedback as adjudged from the absence of…May 14, 2020May 14, 2020