Andrea K. Scott
Summer Art Preview
Ebony G. Patterson at the New York Botanical Garden, Sheila Pepe in Madison Square Park, Hannah Gadsby confronts Picasso at the Brooklyn Museum, and more.
Spring Art Preview
Sarah Sze turns the Guggenheim into a moon dial, Georgia O’Keeffe goes serial at MOMA, Lauren Halsey brings South Central L.A. to the Met, and more.
The Year in Art
The best shows of the year included Lauren Halsey, Alex Katz, and Matisse.
Alex Katz’s Conversations with Friends
Across an eight-decade career, the ninety-five-year-old painter has specialized in the people and the landscapes he loves.
The Year the Art Scene Rebounded, Expanded, and Surrendered to N.F.T.s
As the city reopened, the art world saw legacy-changing donations for the Met and the Brooklyn Museum, and a seismic shift in Tribeca’s gallery scene.
The Healing Art of Harmonic Vibrations
At Socrates Sculpture Park, Guadalupe Maravilla transforms works of art into therapeutic instruments.
Rediscovering a Revolutionary Gallery Show of Black Women’s Art
An exhibition at Ortuzar Projects pays homage to the “Sapphire Show,” which opened on July 4, 1970.
The Best Art of 2020
A silver lining of this year is the reassurance that art is unstoppable.
Azuma Makoto’s Provocative Botanical Sculptures, in “Flower Punk”
Alison Klayman’s documentary shows how a former punk musician brought his sensibility—part poet, part mad scientist—to the unlikely medium of floral art.
The Removal of a Theodore Roosevelt Statue Is a Good First Step in Rethinking America’s Monuments
At a moment when the world’s museums are being called out for ingrained and unexamined inequalities, the American Museum of Natural History has taken decisive action.
New York’s Art World Faces the Coronavirus Shutdown
Art offers a refuge in times of crisis. But what happens when the refuge goes dark?
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A Pioneering Video-Art Curator Chronicles the Medium in “Video/Art: The First Fifty Years”
The book, by Barbara London, is as much memoir as exegesis, an idiosyncratic front-line report from a deeply informed, intrepid, and passionate pioneer who is still in the trenches.
Farah Al Qasimi Brings Jubilation to New York City Bus Routes
Using the visual rhythms of pattern, color, and texture, the photographer makes effervescent images of life in New York City’s immigrant neighborhoods.
Reframing Modernism at the New MOMA
In a gallery at the museum, the principle of shape challenges the hierarchies of Modernism.
Mitch Epstein’s Urgent Look at Communities Vying for American Land
One of the great accomplishments of Epstein’s new work is how he makes headline-grabbing subjects feel timeless.
The Whitney Biennial Protests and the Changing Standards of Accountability in Art
The ouster of Warren B. Kanders as vice-chairman of the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art shows how rapidly, if circuitously, the art world is shifting.
Inside a Vanished Hub of Beijing’s Experimental-Art Scene
A new book and a related exhibition showcase the work of the photographer RongRong and revisit a meteoric moment in candid black-and-white images, documenting renegade actions that drew the attention of the global art world.
A Photographer’s Ode to the Women of Versailles
“I thought it was important to somehow give a counterbalance to the white male dominance of Versailles’s history.”
How Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” Became Big Game
Being expensive is not the same as being great. Koons’s “Rabbit” is both.
Summer Art Preview
Ebony G. Patterson at the New York Botanical Garden, Sheila Pepe in Madison Square Park, Hannah Gadsby confronts Picasso at the Brooklyn Museum, and more.
Spring Art Preview
Sarah Sze turns the Guggenheim into a moon dial, Georgia O’Keeffe goes serial at MOMA, Lauren Halsey brings South Central L.A. to the Met, and more.
The Year in Art
The best shows of the year included Lauren Halsey, Alex Katz, and Matisse.
Alex Katz’s Conversations with Friends
Across an eight-decade career, the ninety-five-year-old painter has specialized in the people and the landscapes he loves.
The Year the Art Scene Rebounded, Expanded, and Surrendered to N.F.T.s
As the city reopened, the art world saw legacy-changing donations for the Met and the Brooklyn Museum, and a seismic shift in Tribeca’s gallery scene.
The Healing Art of Harmonic Vibrations
At Socrates Sculpture Park, Guadalupe Maravilla transforms works of art into therapeutic instruments.
Rediscovering a Revolutionary Gallery Show of Black Women’s Art
An exhibition at Ortuzar Projects pays homage to the “Sapphire Show,” which opened on July 4, 1970.
The Best Art of 2020
A silver lining of this year is the reassurance that art is unstoppable.
Azuma Makoto’s Provocative Botanical Sculptures, in “Flower Punk”
Alison Klayman’s documentary shows how a former punk musician brought his sensibility—part poet, part mad scientist—to the unlikely medium of floral art.
The Removal of a Theodore Roosevelt Statue Is a Good First Step in Rethinking America’s Monuments
At a moment when the world’s museums are being called out for ingrained and unexamined inequalities, the American Museum of Natural History has taken decisive action.
New York’s Art World Faces the Coronavirus Shutdown
Art offers a refuge in times of crisis. But what happens when the refuge goes dark?
Recommends
A Pioneering Video-Art Curator Chronicles the Medium in “Video/Art: The First Fifty Years”
The book, by Barbara London, is as much memoir as exegesis, an idiosyncratic front-line report from a deeply informed, intrepid, and passionate pioneer who is still in the trenches.
Farah Al Qasimi Brings Jubilation to New York City Bus Routes
Using the visual rhythms of pattern, color, and texture, the photographer makes effervescent images of life in New York City’s immigrant neighborhoods.
Reframing Modernism at the New MOMA
In a gallery at the museum, the principle of shape challenges the hierarchies of Modernism.
Mitch Epstein’s Urgent Look at Communities Vying for American Land
One of the great accomplishments of Epstein’s new work is how he makes headline-grabbing subjects feel timeless.
The Whitney Biennial Protests and the Changing Standards of Accountability in Art
The ouster of Warren B. Kanders as vice-chairman of the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art shows how rapidly, if circuitously, the art world is shifting.
Inside a Vanished Hub of Beijing’s Experimental-Art Scene
A new book and a related exhibition showcase the work of the photographer RongRong and revisit a meteoric moment in candid black-and-white images, documenting renegade actions that drew the attention of the global art world.
A Photographer’s Ode to the Women of Versailles
“I thought it was important to somehow give a counterbalance to the white male dominance of Versailles’s history.”
How Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” Became Big Game
Being expensive is not the same as being great. Koons’s “Rabbit” is both.