Seriously Funny, Part One: Variably Funny

When I saw Andrew Masullo’s paintings at Mary Boone a few weeks back, they struck me then, as they did the first time I saw his work in person, at last year’s Whitney Biennial, as both smart and funny. They’re

apelles paints campaspe

At the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in a room nestled amidst two rooms filled with Rubens, the “Van Eyke room”, and the “Pieter Breugel the Elder room,” this large painting by the lesser-known Flemish painter, Jodocus de Winghe, could be