“Critic’s Notebook” selects The Warmth of Winter for best to see
James Panero picks The Warmth of Winter for The New Criterion’s weekly Critic’s Pick which “previews the best to read, see and hear.”
“The Warmth of Winter” at the National Arts Club (through January 6): The National Arts Club on New York’s Gramercy Park has been hosting groundbreaking art exhibitions for over a century. Members of the Ashcan School mounted a historic exhibition in its Grand Gallery a decade before the Armory Show of 1913. Now through January 6, a group exhibition called “The Warmth of Winter” organized by the artist Dee Shapiro pays homage to that legacy by bringing together a thoughtful cross-section of artists from what we might very broadly call today’s “Brooklyn School.” With work by Gary Petersen, Brece Honeycutt, Amy Lincoln, Patricia Fabricant, Oriane Stender, and over sixty others, the exhibition benefits the club’s Will Barnet Student Show Prizes—cash awards for artists of high-school age, named after the centenarian painter and longtime artist-in-residence at the club who died in 2012.”
summer sketch #1, ecodyed textiles, thread, 6″ x 6″, 2015