‘Dear Picasso’
Revisiting and recasting the master's work, from Cubism through Guernica to the Mosqueteros of his old age, new generations of artists are discovering Picasso all over again. Read More
View ArticleTitle Fights: How Museums Name Their Shows
Generating a title for a museum show involves curators, directors, publicists, and more. It can be grueling, it can be fun, and it sometimes takes years to find the right one Read More
View ArticleTen Creative, Disorienting, Enlightening, and Sometimes Frightening...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Marisol, Lygia Clark, and Lee Bontecou are among the subjects of major books this season Read More
View ArticleMorning Links: Rijksmuseum Edition
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has been named European Museum of the Year. [The Art Newspaper]Tomorrow, two days before the 12th Havana Biennial opens, Tania Bruguera will perform a 100-hour-reading of Hannah...
View ArticleThe Writing on the Wall: Glenn Ligon on Borrowing Text to Expose American...
Below, in honor of Glenn Ligon’s show at Luhring Augustine’s Bushwick space, which opens today, is Hilarie M. Sheets’s profile of Ligon from ARTnews’s April 2011 issue. (A second show of Ligon’s work...
View Article‘Some People Think What I’ve Done Is Almost Sacrilege’: A Talk with Jeff Koons
Bill Powers: How do you see the “Gazing Ball” paintings as being on a continuum with the “Gazing Ball” sculptures?Jeff Koons: With the sculpture, you feel a constant polarity between the biological and...
View ArticleThe Composer: Mary Heilmann’s Rhymthic Abstractions Find Their Place in the Sun
Some little girls want to be movie stars, some long to be prima ballerinas. Not Mary Heilmann. As a child, she prayed for sainthood. “I used to dream that I was thrown to lions in the Coliseum,” said...
View Article9 Art Events To Attend In New York City This Week
A guide to the next seven days Read More
View ArticleStudy: Latino Art Underrepresented at College Art Association’s Annual...
At last Friday’s U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium, hosted by the Ford Foundation at its headquarters near the United Nations on Manhattan’s East Side, Rose G. Salseda, a Ph.D. candidate in art...
View ArticleThe Sky Is the Limit: Laura Owens Is in Top Form in Superb Whitney Museum...
The Los Angeles work, gorgeously surveyed in the show, is "rambunctious, ingenious, undogmatic, sassy, and forthright." Read More The post The Sky Is the Limit: Laura Owens Is in Top Form in Superb...
View ArticleThat Takes the Cake!: Whitney Toasts Warhol’s 90th Birthday, Starts...
The big show arrives in November. Read More The post That Takes the Cake!: Whitney Toasts Warhol’s 90th Birthday, Starts Retrospective Ticket Sales appeared first on ARTnews.
View ArticleMission Accomplished?: As Mainstream Art Museums Rush to Diversify, What is...
In July, El Museo del Barrio, a museum in upper Manhattan devoted to exhibiting and collecting Latinx and Latin American art, issued a statement in response to the family separation crisis at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Morning Links: Rijksmuseum Edition
Rijksmuseum. COURTESY MUSEUM/PHOTO BY JOHN LEWIS MARSHALL Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has been named European Museum of the Year. [The Art Newspaper] Tomorrow, two days before the 12th Havana Biennial...
View ArticlePuppies and Proselytizing: Jeff Koons in Bilbao
“You’re probably the only person, aside from me and Jeff, who has seen the show at all three venues,” Scott Rothkopf said when I told him that I caught Jeff Koons’s retrospective at the Whitney...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Writing on the Wall: Glenn Ligon on Borrowing Text to Expose American...
Glenn Ligon, Live, 2014, seven-channel video, installation view, at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, 2015. JOSHUA WHITE/©GLENN LIGON/COURTESY THE ARTIST, LUHRING AUGUSTINE, NEW YORK, AND REGEN PROJECTS,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Some People Think What I’ve Done Is Almost Sacrilege’: A Talk with Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons photographed in his New York City studio on January 13, 2016. ©KATHERINE MCMAHON Bill Powers: How do you see the “Gazing Ball” paintings as being on a continuum with the “Gazing Ball”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Composer: Mary Heilmann’s Rhythmic Abstractions Find Their Place in the Sun
Mary Heilmann photographed in New York City on November 22, 2015. RYAN MCGINLEY Some little girls want to be movie stars, some long to be prima ballerinas. Not Mary Heilmann. As a child, she prayed for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
9 Art Events To Attend In New York City This Week
Haim Steinbach, The Blue Mushroom, 2016. COURTESY TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY TUESDAY, APRIL 19 Talk: “On Ellsworth Kelly” at the Whitney Museum Ellsworth Kelly, who died in December, won’t easily be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Study: Latino Art Underrepresented at College Art Association’s Annual...
Rose G. Salseda presented the findings about underrepresentation of Latino art at CAA’s annual conference. STEPHANIE BERGER At last Friday’s U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium, hosted by the Ford...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Sky Is the Limit: Laura Owens Is in Top Form in Superb Whitney Museum...
Laura Owens, Untitled, 2015, acrylic, oil, and vinyl paint on linen, with powder-coated aluminum strainer, five panels, 108 x 84 inches, each, installation view. RON AMSTUTZ/COURTESY CAPITAIN PETZEL,...
View Article
