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Review: Finally, a Whitney Biennial You Can’t Bash
The Whitney Biennial has traditionally been known as the show that everyone loves to hate. But the current edition, which opens today, deserves to be regarded as the show that everyone loves to love....
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Review: Marsden Hartley and His Maine Act
The idea of an exhibition devoted to “Marsden Harley’s Maine” might sound a bit provincial, tethering one of America’s greatest painters to so much local-yokel lore. We don’t, after all, see shows...
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Review: Duchamp’s “Fountain” Turns 100
There are few modern works more celebrated than Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain,” which elevated a store-bought porcelain urinal into the ethereal realm of art. This week marks the centennial of its...
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Review: How Not to Handle Your Art Career.
Florine Stettheimer is everyone’s favorite underknown artist. A retrospective of her work opening today at the Jewish Museum is likely to expand her fan club. Stettheimer remains an essential eccentric...
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Review: Robert’s Rules of Disorder
The best museum show in New York right now is “Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends,” at the Museum of Modern Art. It re-acquaints us with one of the deities of post-war American art. Rauschenberg, who...
View ArticleReview: Calder Without the Circus
Alexander Calder is, to my mind, America’s greatest-ever sculptor, but he suffers from overfamiliarity. Everyone knows his light-as-air mobile, and his red-painted behemoths in public plazas across the...
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Review: Uncle Sam Wants You (To Look at Art)!
In traditional histories of American art, World War I tends to be treated passingly. Except for Horace Pippin, no major American artists served in the war, and the fighting occurred far from home. It...
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Review: The Artist Ugo Rondinone Wins the Award for World’s Best Spouse
Great artists have never been known to excel as spouses, perhaps because they save the best part of themselves for their work. But Ugo Rondinone, an acclaimed Swiss-born sculptor based in New York, has...
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I’ll Have a Magnum of Magnum, Please
This is the summer of Magnum Photos. The celebrated agency for photojournalists began in 1947, and I’ve counted at least six shows in New York conceived to pay homage through August. The main event is...
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Review: Off the Grid
I was looking forward to “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason” at the Met Breuer, which promised to be one of the big adventures of the fall art season. In addition to having a catchy title, the...
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Review: Re-thinking American Post-War Art
These days, it can sometimes seem like the line between gallery shows and museum shows is blurring. As museums try to shed their image as lofty temples of culture and capitalize on the excitements of...
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Basquiat and Lawrence as Social Activists
A social awakening is happening in the museum world.Two new exhibits discuss the whiteness of art and the struggle of African-American artists to bring more black faces into paintings. Jacob Lawrence's...
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This American Art World
Deborah Solomon, WNYC art critic and the author of American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), talks about how the Whitney and other museums are addressing...
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If You're An Artist, It Pays to be in New York City
Even those of us enamored of this city know that sometimes New York is just too New York-y. The art world, for instance, tends to favor local painting and sculpture over imports from the west — west of...
View ArticleThese Giant Bagels Are the Comfort Food of Public Art
Hanna Liden, a Swedish artist living in New York, holds the odd distinction of being the first to turn bagels into public sculpture. Her installation “Everything” — which takes its title from the kind...
View ArticleSweater-in-an-Art Museum Season Is Almost Upon Us
With summer's end comes the upswing of the local art and culture scene. Local critics discuss what upcoming productions, shows, and exhibitions they're keeping their eyes (and ears) on this...
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Picasso, Like You've Never Seen Before
Think you know Picasso? Think again.A new exhibit opening Monday, September 14, at the Museum of Modern Art presents approximately 140 sculptures by the Pablo Picasso created over the course of his...
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What We Know (and Don't Know) about Photographs
Three new photography exhibits at the Jewish Museum explore the stories behind the images, how they were created and how they influence our understanding of immigration, communism and celebrity."We...
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Two Shows to See in a Season Full of Openings
It's the peak of the fall art season and at times it can feel like new exhibits are opening practically every day. If you're wondering about what to go and see, WNYC's art critic Deborah Solomon...
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Hanging with Frank Stella
Frank Stella, who is 79, got up on a podium to make some brief comments at his Whitney Museum opening this week. He said he had a great time these past few weeks installing his current retrospective....
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