Ellen Handler Spitz


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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

“Pure Sculptural Energy”: Seeing Rodin, Reading Steinberg

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As the Met’s centennial Rodin exhibition opens, Leo Steinberg’s great essay from the 1960s is recalled

René Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938. Oil on canvas, 57-7/8 x 38-7/8 inches. Art Institute of Chicago. © 2013 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013

“Freeze!”: René Magritte and the Visual Oxymoron

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Decades since Surrealism erupted on the horizon, his defamiliarized commonplace forms can still induce vertigo

Installation shot of The Event of a Thread by Ann Hamilton at the Park Avenue Armory, December 2012. Photo: James Ewing
Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Gentling The Savage Enormity Of Gargantuan Space: Ann Hamilton at the Armory

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The Event of a Thread is on view through January 6

Gerrit Rietveld, Child’s wheelbarrow,1923 (manufactured 1958). Painted wood, 12-1/2 x 11-3/8 x 33-1/2 inches. Manufactured by Gerard van de Groenekan. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Beeldrecht, Amsterdam
Monday, September 24th, 2012

MoMA and Child: The Century of the Child at the Museum of Modern Art

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Growing by Design 1900-2000 on view through November 5.

Excerpt from "Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama" by Alison Bechdel. Copyright © 2012 by Alison Bechdel. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

“I can’t help you. You’re on your own”: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoir

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Are Your My Mother? is the much-awaited sequel to Fun Home

Pablo Picasso, Meditation (Contemplation), 1904. Watercolor and ink on paper, 14-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Louise Reinhardt Smith Bequest. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Liminal Leo: Mourning Leo Steinberg

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A touching personal essay to augment our tributes from last March