Exhibitions Museums Performance Thinking About Time, Fashion, and the Met’s ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’ May 07, 2020 This should have been a banner week for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute would have kicked off …
Artists Museums News Part I: Counting Down ‘All the Minutes’ While Stuck at Home in Quarantine April 30, 2020 It’s been about six weeks now since most New Yorkers started quarantining themselves amid the global coronavirus pandemic, and about …
Artists Exhibitions Museums Political Missed the Vida Americana Exhibit at the Whitney? See It Online! April 22, 2020 Amid the closures necessitated by health and safety concerns because of the coronavirus, some art museums here in New York …
Artists Exhibitions Museums News New Hilma af Klint Documentary Beckons Us to Look ‘Beyond the Visible’ April 15, 2020 In all of my 10-plus years of going to art museums and galleries in New York City, I had never …
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 …
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