Although my students in art school don’t actively refer to him, Andy Warhol has changed the landscape of contemporary ar…
Museum shows
Jack Whitten: The Man Who Loved Sculpture
Jack Whitten and Simone Leigh A work of art called Aphrodite’s Lover can only be an act of love. Jack Whitten mean…
“Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel” at the New Museum
Sarah Lucas has a limitless talent for making ordinary life sensational. By recontextualizing everyday items — food, fur…
CUBA Behind the Masks at The Bronx Museum
Manuel Mendive finds magic in the rituals of his native Cuba, but I cannot swear that he ever experienced them at first …
Bill Viola: Life After Death at Stavanger Kunstmuseum
It is tempting to suggest that the Stavanger, Norway, with its nearby Iron-Age petroglyphs of Viking longboats, runes, a…
“Robert Rauschenberg: In and About L.A.” at LACMA
Robert Rauschenberg may be best known for his New York-based work, but he became an artist in Los Angeles. While station…
A Conversation with Joe Bradley (Gagosian Quarterly)
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, is hosting the first US mid-career survey of artist Joe Bradley. For…
“Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman” at the Morgan Library and Museum
Wayne Thiebaud, now nearly an octogenarian, may have started out as a populist illustrator of sweets but has increasingl…
“Giacometti” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Is there much new that can be said about the great Swiss artist Giacometti? Born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901 and …
Vaclav Pozarek at Mamco, Geneva
The exhibition is organized by Lionel Bovier and Fabrice Stroun, assisted by Lisa Kaczmarek. It received the generous su…