Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine
Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do…
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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 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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The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering
My childhood home in California is filled with antiques. Fragile Han Dynasty ceramics, dirt-encrusted Chinese Buddhist sculptures, various porcelain, lacquer boxes, and snuff bottles…
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All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s…
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Detective Stories about Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl
Most of us have never known an art world without Peter Schjeldahl in it. We count on him being part of New York like…
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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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Can Art Museums Afford to Be Free?
Are art museums better off offering free admission? As the art market surges, and museum attendance rises, the question of what kind of ticket…
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Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame
In recent years, the reputation of postwar abstract painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) – known for turbulent, crimson paintings made with his feet – has…
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