Barry Schwabsky

Playful & Philosophical: The Paintings of Moira Dryer

Moira Dryer’s talent as a painter was to draw poignancy out of an almost generic pictorial vocabulary—stripes, blotches, drizzles of drippy color—and to put her formal reticence at the service of an intense playfulness, playing on the edge of sculpture.

On Jonas Mekas: An Exchange

When Frank O’Hara Met Mario Schifano

Frank O’Hara, the “poet among painters,” as Marjorie Perloff dubbed him in the title of her 1977 study, is an emblematic figure of the Sixties New York scene. Mario Schifano’s name may be less familiar.