Provisional Painting

Exhibition Schedule
Following are current and upcoming solo shows by some of the artists discussed:

“Raoul De Keyser: 44 Watercolors,” Museu Serralves, Porto, Mar. 28-May 17; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin,May 18-June 24.

“Raoul De Keyser: Replay, Paintings 1964-2007,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Aug. 20-Oct. 18.

“Raoul De Keyser,” David Zwirner, New York, September 2009.

“Jacqueline Humphries,” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York,Apr. 16-May 16.

“Albert Oehlen,” Luhring Augustine, New York,Apr. 25-May 30.

Richard Aldrich will show at Bartolami gallery’sArt Statements booth at Art Basel, June 10-14.

“Christopher Wool: Porto—Köln,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Apr. 21-July 12 (opened at Museu Serralves, Porto, Nov. 22, 2008-Mar. 15, 2009).

Martin Barré will have a show at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier in December 2009.

“Kimber Smith,” James Graham & Sons, New York, fall 2009.

1 Roberta Smith, “Art in Review,” New York Times, Nov. 17, 2006, p. E37.

2 Barry Schwabsky, “Raoul de Keyser,” Artforum, Summer 2004, p. 240.

3 Jean-Charles Vergne, “Small things aspirate the world and they become the world,” in Raoul de Keyser, Clermont-Ferrand, FRAC Auvergne, 2008, p. 15.

4 “Albert Oehlen talks to Eric Banks,” Artforum, April 2003, pp. 182-83.

5 Adrian Searle, “Never Trust a Painter,” The Guardian, Sept. 25, 2001.

6 Quoted in Anne Umland, Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2008, p. 2.

7 Ibid., p. 91.

8 Catherine Millet, “Interview with Martin Barré,” in Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon and Stephen Melville, As Painting: Division and Displacement, Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2001, p. 190.

9 Ibid., p. 193. 10 Hal Foster, in Artforum, April 1979, p. 71.

Raphael Rubinstein is a New York-based writer who teaches critical studies at the University of Houston.