Sunday, January 30th, 2022

When Women were easier to obtain than food: Picasso’s Blue Period

His early work, about to open at the Phillips Collection

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

Pablo Picasso, Bull, 1958. Blockboard (wood base panel), palm frond and various other tree branches, eyebolt, nails, and screws, with drips of alkyd and pencil markings, 56-3/4 x 46-1/8 x 4-1/8 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

Picasso in 3-D: A Roundtable of Sculptors, with Alain Kirili, Michelle Segre and Rebecca Smith

MoMA’s exhibition is on view through February 7

Friday, October 9th, 2015

Creation Anxieties: Dana Schutz at Petzel

Paintings of boldness and fearlessness, on view through October 24

Thursday, September 17th, 2015

Emojis and Emotion: New Painting by Margaux Ogden

Ogden’s work leverages anxiety and excitement, brush on canvas, as pain’ing.

Photogram by alpert+kahn from their series, Dda. Courtesy of the Artists
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

Dda: A collaboration between Michael Heller and alpert+kahn

Poetry for Art returns to artcritical

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

What are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Many of Them?

artcritical is deeply saddened by the passing of its friend and collaborator, Bill Berkson

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros at Gagosian Gallery

The problem with late Picasso has to do with his stubborn insistence on diaristic expressionism increasingly isolated from changing times.

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Time, Truth and History – El Greco to Picasso

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street New York City 212 423 3500 November 17, 2006 to March 28, 2007 What to think of yet another in the procession of general surveys the Guggenheim has served up?  In 2000, the late, great Robert Rosenblum presented the 1900 show as an expansive index that … Continued

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

Picasso: The Berggruen Album

May 3-June 26, 2004 Mitchell-Innes & Nash 1018 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10021 It’s safe to say that no artist has been so over-exposed as Picasso. It isn’t simply the seemingly countless exhibitions and critical studies; his styles (all of them!) have so thoroughly infiltrated popular culture that no one thinks twice about the … Continued