Press

FIVE DECADES OF CRITICAL ATTENTION & EXHIBITION REVIEWS
1980 — 2024

2024
Simply Saratoga
Feature profile
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2022
518 Profiles
Profile — pp. 6–11
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Lake George Mirror
Section B, pp. 13 & 17
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2021
Berkshire Magazine
pp. 18–23
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Saratoga Living Magazine
pp. 42–43
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2020
Sculpture Magazine
Eclectic Autonomy
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WMHT PBS — AHA! A House for Arts
John Van Alstine on Welding
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WMHT PBS — AHA! A House for Arts
John Van Alstine on Sisyphus
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WMHT PBS — AHA! A House for Arts
John Van Alstine on Mythology as Inspiration
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Adirondack Experience
Creativity in Quarantine
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2018
Adirondack Explorer Magazine
Trailblazer — pp. 46–47
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2015
Art and Antiques
Sculpture Portfolio — p. 44
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2014
Adirondack Life Magazine
pp. 48–49
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2013
Sculpture Magazine
Opalka Gallery Solo Exhibition Review
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2012
Albany Times Union
Critic's Top Picks for 2012
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Albany Times Union
Creative Balance — Opalka Gallery Solo Exhibition Review
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Albany Times Union
Sculpture, Dancers Make Incentive Show
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The Daily Gazette
Sculptor Uses Found Objects to Choreograph Work
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Views on Art — Grounds for Sculpture Blog
John Van Alstine — A Studio Visit
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Sarasota Visual Art
Land, Sea and 3-D
2009
Albany Times Union
Van Alstine Brings Sisyphus Down a Notch
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2008
Sculpture Magazine
Review — Lake Placid Center, vol. 27 no. 5, p. 74
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Albany Times Union
Ring of Triumph — Preview, sec. cover & pp. 18–19+
Albany Times Union
Must-See Exhibits — sec. H, p. 1
Schenectady Gazette
Arts sec. pp. 1 & 3
USA Today
Sculpture Inspired by Flight Takes Wing — Money sec., p. 6B
Washington Post
Baltimore Sun
Adirondack Life
Olympic Medal
Mountain Homestyle Magazine, Aspen
Where Industry and Nature Meet — pp. 95–98
2006
Sculpture Magazine
Norha Haime Solo Show, NYC — p. 77
Baltimore Sun
2003
Kettering Times
911 Memorial
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Exhibit Sets Up Dialogue Between Two Artists — James Gallery, Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review
West End Exhibit Reveals Compatibility of Artists' Works — James Gallery, Pittsburgh
2001
Providence Journal
Exhibition review
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Art in America
Contemporary American Sculpture in Monte-Carlo
2000
Sculpture Magazine
Interview — pp. 26–33
Baltimore City Paper
Keeping his Balance
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1998
Adirondack Life Magazine
Through the Mill — Collector edition, pp. 74–82
Cover Magazine
VanAlstine at Norha Haime, NYC — Review
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Baltimore Sun
Deep Talent Pool
1996
Baltimore Sun
Horn of Plenty: Sculpture, John Van Alstine
Sculpture Magazine
John Van Alstine: Vessels and Voyages — DeCordova Museum, Boston, p. 61
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ArtNews Magazine
p. 132
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Cleveland State University
Sculpture Between a Rock and a Hard Spot — solo exhibition catalog essay
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DeCordova Museum
John Van Alstine: Vessels and Voyages — solo exhibition catalog essay
Boston Globe
John Van Alstine: Vessels and Voyages at the DeCordova Museum — Sculpture Terrace Gets Off to a Teetering Start, section E1
Baltimore City Paper
Disparate Works Share Space at C. Grimaldis
Baltimore Sun
Awareness of Fine Line…
1994
Art and Antiques
Staking Out Claims — solo exhibition review
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Manchester Union
Solo Exhibit — University of New Hampshire, review
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1991
New York Times
Urban-Suburban… Unlikely Shapes — sole exhibit review
De Gilderlander (Dutch)
Exposites — Van Alstine als Don Quichot op de weg van een
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Baltimore Sun
Dual Exhibit
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Cover Magazine
Feature
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1989
New York Times
Ephemeral Pairing of Granite and Steel
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Baltimore Sun
Van Alstine Sculpture
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1987
The Phillips Collection
Sculpture at the Museum
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Washington Times
Playful Sculpture…
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1982
National Museum of American Art — Smithsonian Institution
Exhibition
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1981 — 1980
Art in America
Feature
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Art Forum
Marlborough Gallery — Color, 5 New Views
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Washington Post
Van Alstine's Photography
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Arts Magazine
NYC Exhibition Review
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens
Directions — Brute Sculpture: John Van Alstine 1979 [Hardcover]
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