Daddy Says: Ed Ruscha in Other Words
Ed Ruscha is a great American art daddy, such that he has been called “the deadpan laureate of American art,” “the great American Pop…
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A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”
The painter Agnes Martin contemplated language with a great deal of skepticism. Though she produced an impressive body of written work, mostly compiled and…
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“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…
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We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though…
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Stop Guarding the Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art will open an exhibition guest-curated by 17 of the museum’s security officers next March. Titled Guarding the Art, art…
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With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts
The Heritage Foundation and conservative groups like it have been trying to kill the National Endowment for the Arts for decades. Last month, the Trump…
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Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting
I work on 22nd Street in the Chelsea gallery district of Manhattan, so it was easy to notice the painting. Louis Fratino’s I keep…
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“I’m Staying Away From Trump as Subject Matter”: Howardena Pindell On Refusal and Evolution
The American artist Howardena Pindell arrived in London for her first solo show in the UK just as the 45th US President landed for…
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Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA
Adrian Piper’s artistic statements reject a moralizing approach. “I try for simplicity, not simplification. I don’t want to make prescriptions about what people should…
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Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently rehung its prized Modern galleries, swapping out works by greats like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso for…
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