Paul Pagk

Apr 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Rachel Wetzler |Jan Tumlir |Clifford Owens |Paul Pagk

A reflection on the art of Mark RothkoWALKING THROUGH “MARK ROTHKO” at Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton this past October, I felt in body, mind, and surely soul the magical embrace of his paintings, their physical presence, their frontal pictoriality letting me into their depths, and a powerful affirmation of the horizon between heaven and earth. Rothko’s color defines shapes, his shapes define boundaries, and these boundaries are rarely hard.

Apr 1, 2024 | artforum.com | J. HOBERMAN |Lola Kramer |Molly Warnock |Paul Pagk

Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks and the cult of NancyUNIVERSALIZING HISTORIANS have given the newspaper comic strip a distinguished pedigree as the twentieth-century descendant of sacred Egyptian hieroglyphics. True or not, no classic strip was better suited to embellish the inner sanctum of Pharaoh Tut’s tomb than Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running tot saga Nancy. For one thing, Bushmiller’s reductive, repeatedly iterated forms established their own pictography.