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Friday, September 11th, 2015
Gabriel A. Maher, DE___SIGN (video), 2014. Courtesy of the artist
an exhibition at the intersections of craft, gender and modernism ...
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
The proceedings of a recent symposium on af Klint’s work have been compiled into a new book. ...
Wednesday, August 12th, 2015
Andrew Forge, Willow, 1999. Oil on canvas, 42 x 44 inches. Courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery
Parallel qualities in painter and composer sustain a connection between the two ...

Saturday, June 5th, 2021

The People’s MoMA

A provocative, personal essay from Dr. David Carrier tries to envision “the” museum without plutocratic support

Raphael, The School of Athens.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

“Sizzling at the Points of Transition”: Lilly Wei on Stephen Antonakos

Proscenium is on view at the Neuberger through June 24

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

“Pure Sculptural Energy”: Seeing Rodin, Reading Steinberg

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

cover of the book under review, with portrait of the artist by Chuck Close
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

The Beholder’s Share

Drawing on family experience, the author dives into the neuroscience of figuration and abstraction

Installation view, fourth floor, Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest, New Museum, 2016.
Sunday, January 15th, 2017

“Administrating Eternity”: Contemplating Pipilotti Rist in the Wake of Trump

New Museum show closes in week of Inauguration and Women’s March

Tuesday, November 15th, 2016

The Obligation to Explain

One of the striking aspects of the controversy around Kelley Walker’s exhibition at the Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) is how many important issues it raises, including, obviously, the perilous state of race relations in the country; the dilemmas that arise when one person’s freedom of speech is perceived by someone else as hate … Continued

Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

Commentary: Towards a more fluid definition of Blackness

“The art world needs to renew its ideas of racial inclusion”

Installation shot of the exhibition, Representing Rainbows, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis at Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, September 2016, showing a work by Shinique Smith. Photo: Michael Scoggins
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

Towards a more fluid definition of Blackness

“The art world needs to renew its ideas of racial inclusion”

Friday, March 18th, 2016

The Case For Understatement

With “Unfinished” and “Nasreen Mohamedi”, Met Breuer opens its brutalist walkway to the public today.

Monday, February 29th, 2016

Walks on the Wild Side: Female Empowerment and a Right Royal Faux Pas

Marie Antoinette and Vigée Le Brun say “take a hike” to their critics