Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 21 x 30-1/2 inches. Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; via Matthew Marks Gallery
Friday, May 17th, 2019

Uncomfortable Questions: Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks

Mordant “late” works were on view earlier this spring

Saturday, April 16th, 2016

Drawing a Line: “A Constellation” at the Studio Museum in Harlem

A recent group show connects dots between form and narrative.

Edward Ashton Goodes, Fishbowl Fantasy, 1867. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25-1/8 inches. Collection of Peter A. Feld
Saturday, November 28th, 2015

An Art of Plenitude: American Still Life in Philadelphia

From Audubon to Warhol, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 10

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

The Veil and Vault: The Broad Museum in Los Angeles

A report on its architecture and its inaugural exhibition.

Saturday, August 29th, 2015

Northwest Notes: Dispatch from the Pacific

An absolutely, totally huge tour of art offerings throughout the Pacific Northwest, even going to Canada!

Monday, August 10th, 2015

Monochromatic Polyphony: Gray at Marc Straus

A show about gray as a color and a metaphor, limning its way between grim concreteness and silver linings.

Saturday, September 27th, 2014

Trompe-l’oeil and Postmodern Cheek: Paul Sietsema at Matthew Marks

Is trompe-l’oeil painting inherently anti-climactic?

Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2013. Ink on Plastic27-1/2 x 36 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift from a private collection. Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph: Jerry Thompson
Thursday, April 24th, 2014

Rubber Stamped Regrets: Jasper Johns at MoMA

Exhibition as exercise in shoring up reputation

Mike Yaniro, Caric 1, 2013, graphite and ink on paper, found frame, 21 x 18 inches. Courtesy of Room East.
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

Sign Painting and Image: Mike Yaniro at Room East

A young artist’s debut on the Lower East Side plays with language, drawing, and commercial processes

Robert Rauschenberg, Short Circuit (Combine Painting), 1955. Oil, fabric and paper on wood supports and cabinet with two hinged doors containing a painting by Susan Weil and a reproduction of a Jasper Johns Flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant, 40-3/4 x 37-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Too absorbed by the future to bother about the past: Robert Rauschenberg

If Johns is our Mallarmé, Rauschenberg is our Walt Whitman.