Artists Exhibitions Museums My Private Cosmology: Finding Inner and Outer Worlds in Paintings of Agnes Pelton April 02, 2020 Looking back less than two weeks, the preview for this show was a bit sparsely attended—just days before every major …
Artists Museums News Van Gogh Painting Stolen from Dutch Museum shut by the coronavirus March 31, 2020 Early Monday morning, thieves stole Van Gogh’s “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring“ from the Singer Laren Museum in Laren, …
Artists Exhibitions Museums Portraitist in the Moment March 24, 2020 I am so glad I was able to see this exhibition of large-scale paintings by Jordan Casteel (born in 1989) …
Artists Exhibitions Museums Uncategorized A Half-Century of Political Painting Packing Powerful Partisan Punch March 20, 2020 “At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist.” Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) In the 1980s —I can vouch—the mean age …
Museums News The Art Must be Quarantined March 14, 2020 “The Museum will undertake a thorough cleaning,” reads last week’s statement from Met CEO and President Daniel Weiss, in a …
Exhibitions Museums The Most Dangerous Power: ‘Energy’ at MoMA February 05, 2020 It turns out energy, not money, is what drives the world, and energy is much more frightening. The curiosity, naïveté …
Museums Woman! Rachel Feinstein Poses Deep Questions Through Sculpture December 26, 2019 She is masturbating while lying on her belly, bigger than body size, sensitive to every brush of the skin, enjoying …
Artists Conceptual Environmental Exhibitions Kinetic Museums News Political Hans Haacke: Art with Ulterior Motive November 11, 2019 Hans Haacke’s All Connected retrospective at the New Museum marks a return from the long banishment of the controversial New …
Curators Exhibitions Museums For Love of Camp September 03, 2019 Costume Institute’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion“, on view until September 8th, is a sweeping retrospective, covering aesthetic of this style from the …
Artists Exhibitions Museums News Leonardo da Vinci’s single-painting show at the Met – Spellbinding Tribute to the Renaissance Genius August 21, 2019 There is just one modestly-sized painting on view in the gallery number 955 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But …
Exhibitions Museums Bauhaus at Harvard August 19, 2019 In graduate school I took a course on Latin American cinema that primed me for this show, The Bauhaus and …
Curators Exhibitions Museums News Amid Turmoil, Whitney Biennial Takes Pulse of America’s Mindset August 12, 2019 Without a doubt, the most scandalous museum show in New York City right now is the 2019 Whitney Biennial. The …
Collectors Exhibitions Museums The Studio Museum in Harlem in Charleston, SC July 31, 2019 Black Refractions, found on the top floor of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, opens strong with a …
Artists Exhibitions Museums News Uncategorized The 2019 Whitney Biennial – Catalyst for a Political Stance July 29, 2019 This past week Eddie Arroyo, Christine Sun Kim, Augustina Woodgate, and the collective Forensic Architecture joined Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, …
Art Book Artists Museums Iconoclysms — The new art history book reviewed by the author’s old Prado pal July 25, 2019 The painting above, Saint Dominic of Silos Enshrined as a Bishop, was painted by a Spaniard named Bertolome Bermejo in …
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