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Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Edward Hopper, Night Window, 1928. Oil on canvas, 29 x 34 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of John Hay Whitney
Irish-honed literary skills placed at service of cosmopolitan visual culture ...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
A detail of a painting by Carol Rhodes reproduced in the book under review. (Construction Site, 2003)
New monograph published by Skira Editore ...
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
A look at eight years of writing by Bob Nickas. ...

Martha Wilson (with sound by Ron Littke), Martha Wilson as Barbara Bush, March 11, 1991. Color video with sound 7 mins., 23 secs. Courtesy of Martha Wilson
Friday, November 25th, 2011

Making Up: Martha Wilson Sourcebook from Independent Curators International

First in a projected series, a new kind of monograph.

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

China Modernism/Harvard Semiotics

Gao Minglu’s Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

Cover of the book under review
Sunday, August 28th, 2011

“The Psycho-Historical Backdrop”: New Cuban Art of the 1980s and ’90s

Rachel Weiss’s To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art, from Minnesota

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Thriving on Drama and Discordance: The Life of Alice Neel

A review of Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban

Edouard Manet, The Railway (The Gare Saint-Lazare), 1873. Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W Havemeyer.
Sunday, July 31st, 2011

“Enchantment and Malaise”: Michel Foucault on Manet

Publication of a 1971 lecture in Tunis, reissued in time for the recent exhibition in Paris

Lucian Freud, Man with a Blue Scarf, 2004. Oil on canvas, 66 x 50.8 cm. Private Collection. Lucian Freud archive, photography by John Riddy. Works by Lucian Freud © 2010 Lucian Freud.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Anatomy of a Sitting: Lucian Freud Paints A Portrait

Review of Martin Gayford’s recent book, Man with a Blue Scarf

Al Held, Roberta's Trip, 1985. Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 144 inches. Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery, and reproduced in the volume under review
Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Are You Experienced? Ken Johnson on Psychedelic Consciousness

After you read this book, lots of familiar art will look different

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Teller of Tales: The Loquacity of Philip Guston

Reviews his collected writings, edited by Clark Coolidge, and a study of the late works by poet David Kaufmann.

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Frida Kahlo: Her Photos

It should come as no surprise that Frida Kahlo, whose own dramatic life was the primary subject of her art, kept a major collection of photographs important to her.  With the intense interest in Kahlo created by Hayden Herrera’s seminal biography, you might in fact wonder, why have we never seen these photos?  Okay, funny … Continued

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

The Price of Beauty: Two novels set in the art market

By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham; An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin