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What to See at the 2023 Armory Show
I’ll say it. This is the best Armory Show I’ve been to since the pandemic, with fewer misses and more hits—especially the solid curation of sculptures and installations in the Platform section,...
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One Fine Show: ‘Landscapes’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
A love of landscape paintings feels built into humans alongside our general and primordial need to spend time in nature. It’s possible that this affinity even extends to other cultural artifacts. Do...
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An Alchemical Collaboration: Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann at Gagosian
“White is not a stripping back to reveal, but a starting place,” wrote Edmund de Waal. “A page, a wall, a handful of white clay, porcelain, a block of stone. It is the pull and push between the object...
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Philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau’s $400 Million Art Collection Is Headed to...
The late art patron, collector and philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau seems to have had a talent for finding silver linings. As a nascent collector in the 1960s, she acquired, with the guidance of...
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Gagosian Is Building Tetsuya Ishida’s Legacy in the U.S.
Nick Simunovic, Gagosian’s senior director in Asia, was living in Hong Kong thirteen years ago when he was first introduced to the striking, melancholy and at times chilling paintings of Japanese...
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Independent Co-Founder Elizabeth Dee On the Art Fair Landscape and...
Since 2010, the Independent Art Fair has made a name for itself with a simple proposition: it presents a relatively small number of exhibitors doing extremely high-quality booths in a bespoke location....
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From Artists to Gallerists: How Jamian Juliano-Villani and Billy Grant are...
The need for alternatives to the traditional commercial gallery model has always been evident and has never been more obvious, given the emergence of the mega-galleries of the world. The New York art...
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A Spotlight on Collections Care and Conservation at the Clyfford Still Museum
Clyfford Still was one of the best American painters of all time, though he probably isn’t the household name he should be thanks to the same quality that allowed him to create such phenomenal works:...
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Danish Recycling Activist Thomas Dambo’s Surprising Forest Art
My kids, charging through the forest at Chicago’s Morton Arboretum, skidded to a stop to take in a thirty-foot troll that had smashed a car with a boulder and threatened to hurl another. They found a...
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On View Now: Four Shows in Tribeca on Reimagined Figuration
In Tribeca, four exhibits of work by contemporary artists explore the power of representation in paintings, sculpture and installations. They question our assumptions of beauty and who gets excluded...
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‘From Midnight to Twilight’ Brings the ‘Painter of Black’ Back Into the Light
One of my art pet peeves is being told “You just have to see it in person.” While it’s true that this is sometimes the case, more often than not I find myself thinking, “Do I really?” And more often...
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Photographing New York: Reflections On Capturing the City’s Essence
New York City is a treasure trove of hidden gems, secluded alleyways, bespoke shops and architectural wonders paired with a glittering skyline that is a photographic feast from every perspective. As a...
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Savoring the Art of Campari During Negroni Week
You’ve seen them before, with their backgrounds of dark, saturated reds and fancifully cartoonish depictions—often of mustachioed men and glamorous women from long ago in bucket hats and flowing...
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One Fine Show: ‘Reckoning with Millet’s Man with a Hoe’ at the Getty Center
Today it’s fairly popular to paint the common man. The beloved Kehinde Wiley has been doing this for some time now, pulling subjects off the street and treating them to neoclassical portraiture...
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Exploring the Impact of the Woman Behind the House of Chanel
The name “Chanel” evokes a world of iconic looks, prized scents and luxury. But more than just an iconic fashion house, the Chanel brand was, and is, a storyteller. It originated the story of power of...
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On View Now: The Yearnings of Cassi Namoda’s Gentle Rain
Since her first gallery exhibition in 2017, Cassi Namoda has quickly become a comet of the contemporary art scene. She has had around thirty shows and events, and her paintings, with their common...
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Peter Zimmermann On Embracing the Unexpected
What it means to lose oneself in an artwork differs from piece to piece and person to person. Literally seeing oneself in a work is not strictly necessary, but there is something to be said for the...
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Phillips’ Jeremiah Evarts On the Approaching ‘Abstraktes Bild’ Auction
We’re rapidly approaching the big November sales here in New York, and the star at Phillips auction house will be Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild, 1987. Richter is always popular at auction, of...
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons Dazzles in New Survey at the Brooklyn Museum
The universe of Cuban-born, Nashville-based artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons is expansive, generous, spiritual, feminist and rooted. It sings and sobs and dances, honors and stands strong. Her visual...
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One Fine Show: John Waters at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles
John Waters isn’t just a beloved avant-garde filmmaker or that guy who has a famous opinion about what you should do if you go home with someone and they don’t own any books. (The Strand put that quote...
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