“What I produce bears the traces of my life and of what I see everywhere,” the Iranian abstract artist (and force of nature) Behjat Sadr once said. This entrancing survey...
Read More »To reach “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until Dec. 3, visitors...
Read More »Whatever you think of this American artist, who died in 2015, at the age of sixty-nine, his ambition can’t be denied. Walking through “Cross Currents,” a show documenting twenty...
Read More »When this Greek-born artist—whose vision and inventive rigor are only now getting their due—first arrived in New York City, in the mid-nineteen-fifties, the lights and skyscrapers...
Read More »Clay proves to be terrifically funny stuff in “Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture,” an invigorating exhibition...
Read More »For nearly a year, the Marian Goodman gallery has been keeping a secret: an unannounced show by Gabriel Orozco, which...
Read More »O’Keeffe devoted most of her ninety-eight years to grand, sometimes grandiose oil paintings, despite the ample evidence, on view in this new show of her works on paper, that...
Read More »“Horses: The Death of a Rider” (at the Vito Schnabel gallery, through July 29) is a jewel of a show,...
Read More »Breaking the path to an American art we’ve long needed to see, Smith is both a force for reckoning and a force to be reckoned with. A citizen of...
Read More »In 1957, while construction was still under way, Frank Lloyd Wright led a reporter through the Guggenheim. As they ascended the spiral, Wright said of the oculus overhead, “You will...
Read More »In 1957, while construction was still under way, Frank Lloyd Wright led a reporter through the Guggenheim. As they ascended...
Read More »Though this delicate and memorable exhibition isn’t a retrospective, it does convey Nengudi’s now fifty-year-old philosophical belief in flow. From the beginning of her career, this Black American...
Read More »This indefatigable member of the Pictures Generation—who was once cheekily christened the Franklin Mint of Modernism by the great critic David Rimanelli—presents “Wood,” a small exhibition...
Read More »Utopian visions mingle with dystopian nightmares in this ambitious exhibition about the video revolution—a global story of formal radicalism and political struggle. Thanks to the curators Stuart Comer...
Read More »The ecstatic new paintings by the self-schooled Uman have more colors than colors have names. Her star-making début at the...
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