“The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,” the Museum of Modern Art’s controversial survey of contemporary painting (which has been praised by some and disliked by many more) is, amazingly, its first major painting show since 1958. We’re flashing back to that period … Read More
“Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. Jeanette Hayes is a painter and multimedia artist based in New York City and originally from Chicago. Her work addresses the … Read More
In 1949, Iva Toguri d’Aquino, a young Japanese-American typist, became the seventh person in the history of the United States to be convicted of treason. She was brought from Japan to America, arrested immediately, tried, and put in prison for … Read More
Georgina Adam’s Financial Times column today opens with the story of a “retired Italian factory worker” who bought two paintings for £20 in 1975 that turned out to be by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard. Fantastic, right? No. Because: When … Read More
It’s a busy day over at Ohio’s Columbus Museum of Art with not one, not two, but three curatorial staff announcements. First up: David Stark, previously director of administration for museum education at the Art Institute of Chicago, has been … Read More
“Picabia Alert” is a recurring feature that takes note of shows that feature work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953). Why Picabia? Because I love him and hopefully you do too, and because he is having a retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zurich … Read More
“Thomas W. Lentz, who directed the Harvard Art Museums for more than a decade and shepherded them through a long and sometimes contentious $350 million renovation and expansion that was completed last November,” announced that he is planning to step … Read More
The administrators of the Seattle Art Museum and the Clark Art Institute of Williamstown, Mass., have made a wager on Sunday’s Super Bowl that will have the winning team’s museum receive a painting for a three-month loan. Should the Seahawks … Read More
This afternoon, amidst installation, I had a look around New York’s Outsider Art Fair, which officially opens tomorrow at the old Dia building in Chelsea on West 22nd Street. There’s much to see! The fourth floor features not only some paintings by … Read More
Caitlín Doherty has been appointed curator and deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, the museum announced today. Doherty was previously the exhibitions and speaker curator at Virginia Commonwealth University … Read More
Fair season in New York is nearly here. March 5 to 8, the Pulse New York fair will take place at the the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, 125 West 18th Street, with more than 40 national and international exhibitors. Eighty percent of … Read More
It is cold and wet outside in New York, which is not an ideal combination, the conditions making it essential for any trip outside to really count. Below, two suggestions for art exhibitions on view with plenty to offer, and … Read More
Amy Mackie speaks fast, and her answers wind around into other answers. Her conversation is ornamented by her encyclopedic knowledge of the community she works in. After leaving a curatorial position at New York’s New Museum in 2011, she went … Read More
The decade is back big-time—but whose ’90s is it, anyway? Read More
Headlines