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Nov 12

Artist Randy Bloom Paints Jewel-like Spines of Pure Color in Chelsea

One constant through all of Ms. Bloom’s nearly 40 years of work is color that is clear, pure, beautiful -- and off the beaten path. Her palette is at once so vivid and so mellow that it can upset viewers accustomed to the fashionably murky or the seven standard hues of the rainbow.
By Piri Halasz
Oct 2

The Bright Vitality of the Paintings of Stanley Whitney

Whitney’s way of applying paint leaves a softness and gentleness in his surfaces that gives them (and the observer) room to breathe.
By Piri Halasz
EH3749P 18 September 1944 Ernest Hemingway stands in uniform beside Colonel Charles “Buck” Lanham, in Schweitzer Germany, WWII. An unidentified soldier kneels to hold ammunition.
Sep 22

Hemingway’s Secrets: Reading Between the Lines of the Legend at the Morgan Library

An upcoming exhibit gives us a deep, personal and complicated view of the writer.
By Matthew Kassel
Aug 6

The Art World’s Seismic Shift Back to the Oddball

By Ryan Steadman
Flaming June, 1895, by Frederic Lord Leighton. (Courtesy: The Frick)
Jul 29

High Camp, and High Art, at the Frick Through Sept. 6

By Piri Halasz
PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy The Whitney Museum
Jun 10

A Walk Around the Whitney, Minus the Hype

By David Ebony
May 29

Both Sides Now: Lisa Yuskavage Tackles the Other Sex

By Ryan Steadman
From left, Joe Goode's Torn Cloud "Vandalized," 1973; Untitled (GO #4), 1973; Torn Cloud Painting 2A, 1975; and Torn Cloud Painting. 33, 1971. Photo: Courtesy of Joe Goode & Van Doren Waxter
Apr 23

Two Staunch Uptown Galleries Excite With Image-Based Painters, Both Old and New

By Ryan Steadman
Artwork by Janine Antoni
Apr 8

Woman’s Work: The Epic Two Decades of Janine Antoni

By Ryan Steadman
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Temple of Neptune, Looking Southwest (Study for plate X of the Différentes vues de Pesto) (ca. 1777-78). (Photo: Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum)
Apr 2

The Morgan Library Hosts a Jewel-Box of a Piranesi Drawings Show

By Piri Halasz
Richard Estes, Brooklyn Bridge, (1993). (Courtesy of Ann and Donovan Moore © Richard Estes,courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York)
Apr 1

Richard Estes’ Vision of New York, Reflected and Perfected in a Survey at MAD

By David Ebony
Installoation view of Laurie Summons: How We See (2015), at The Jewsih Museum. (Courtesy the Jewish Museum)
Mar 18

Living Dolls: Laurie Simmons Offers a Tepid Status Update at the Jewish Museum

By Ryan Steadman
Kianja Strobert, <em>Untitled</em>, 2011 (Photo courtesy: Collection of Sam, Shanit and Alexys Schwartz)
Feb 18

Owning the Abstract: Kianja Strobert Taunts, and Sometimes Tops, Her Ab-Ex Ancestors

By Ryan Steadman
installation view of “Djordje Ozbolt: More paintings about poets and food” at Hauser & Wirth uptown. (Photograph by Genevieve Hanson/ Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)
Feb 11

Art History’s Savvy Joker: Djordje Ozbolt’s Bone-Dry Visual Zingers at Hauser & Wirth

By Ryan Steadman
Untitled (1930) by Todros Geller. ( Alvia Urdaneta/ Collection of Bernard Friedman.)
Feb 4

Seeing Red: NYU’s Grey Art Gallery Revisits America’s Socialist Moment in Full

By David Ebony
Un orange inférieur by Jesús Rafael Soto, (1984). (CLAIRE DORN/ © Jesús Rafael Soto / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, 2015 Courtesy Galerie Perrotin)
Jan 28

The Missing Link: Galerie Perrotin States the Case for Jesús Rafael Soto

By Ryan Steadman
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Jacqueline aux Fleurs (Jacqueline with Flowers). (©2014 Estate of Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy Pace Gallery)
Jan 5

The Met and Pace Gallery Spotlight the Women Behind Cézanne and Picasso

By David Ebony
Takashi Murakami, Isle of the Dead, 2014. (Courtesy Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. Photography by Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.)
Dec 17

Absurd on a Grand Scale: The Lunatic Splendor of Murakami Takes Over Gagosian Gallery

By Ryan Steadman
<em>Confession (Lady Chancellor)</em>, 2007, by Chris Ofili. (Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner)
Nov 19

A Fresh Look at Chris Ofili, a Painter Propelled by Controversy, at the New Museum

By David Ebony
Photographer Jill Krementz's portrait of David Hockney, whose work is currently on view at Pace Gallery. (Courtesy Jill Krementz)
Nov 12

Motherwell and Hockney, Two 20th Century Titans, Star in Major Chelsea Shows

By Ryan Steadman
Installation view of 'ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s' (Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)
Nov 5

The Mid-Century Motorized Madness of ‘ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow’ at the Guggenheim

By Maika Pollack
Fernand Léger, Composition (The Typographer), 1918-19. (Courtesy 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris)
Oct 29

A New Geometry: David Ebony on a Cosmetics King’s Cubist Gems at The Met

By David Ebony
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Dr. Erwin von Graff, 1910. (Courtesy Neue Galerie)
Oct 22

Egon Schiele’s Insatiable Search for Life: Neue Galerie Lauds the Viennese Wunderkind

By Ryan Steadman
The Codomas (1943) by Henri Matisse, maquette for plate XI from the illustrated book Jazz (1947) (Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris)
Oct 15

The Magician of Color: On the Vibrant, Shocking, Life-Affirming Matisse Show at MoMA

By Lance Esplund
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