the art world

Pierre Huyghe’s A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin
[ad_1] In the far corner of the Halle, there’s a dim glow. Your job, you realize, is to grope your way toward that light, which reveals itself to be a...
The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting
[ad_1] “Self-Portrait with Black Background” (1915).Art work by Helene Schjerfbeck / Courtesy Finnish National Gallery / Metropolitan Museum of Art; Photograph by Hannu AaltonenIn 1883, Schjerfbeck travelled to Brittany, where...
It Takes Only Five Paintings to See Helen Frankenthaler’s Genius
[ad_1] In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. [ad_2] Source link
The New Studio Museum in Harlem Shows that Black Art Matters
[ad_1] I had to wait for the next generation—my older sister—to break through that uncertainty and introduce me to the political, social, and aesthetic significance of Harlem. In my sister’s...
The New Studio Museum in Harlem Is a Landmark in the History of Black Art
[ad_1] I had to wait for the next generation—my older sister—to break through that uncertainty and introduce me to the political, social, and aesthetic significance of Harlem. In my sister’s...
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
[ad_1] “It was the first time in my life I didn’t have to do anything,” Asawa later said. She took drawing lessons from three interned Disney animators in an ad-hoc...
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
[ad_1] On certain days, I’d cut school and head over to the Museum of Modern Art to dream awhile. This was in the mid-nineteen-seventies, and my high school—then called the...
A Daring Show Remixes the Monuments of the Confederacy
[ad_1] The first thing you see is a horse’s ass, protruding, upside down, from the thorax of a monster. A man’s arm descends from the beast’s stomach, his gloved hand...
In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home
[ad_1] That’s meant to be remedied by Calder Gardens, a new institution taking shape in a half-buried berm on the Parkway, not far from that paternal fountain. The site joins...
The Met’s Luminous New Rockefeller Wing Still Casts Some Shadows
[ad_1] It may be the most impressive of the recently modernized colonial collections, far surpassing Berlin’s much criticized Humboldt Forum. One laudable shift is the variety of media exhibited—not just...
The Met’s Exhibit on Black Male Style Is an Exceptional Achievement
[ad_1] Writing in this magazine in 1973, Kennedy Fraser referred to style as “individualistic, aristocratic, and reckless,” and one or all of those qualities can be seen in the various...