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The Composer: Mary Heilmann’s Rhythmic Abstractions Find Their Place in the Sun

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 03/08/16 11:43 am

Some little girls want to be movie stars, some long to be prima ballerinas. Not Mary Heilmann. As a child, she prayed for sainthood. “I used to dream that I was thrown to lions in the Coliseum,” said the artist. … Read More

Features February 2015

The Art of the Curious Nineties

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 01/29/15 10:00 am

The decade is back big-time—but whose ’90s is it, anyway? Read More

Profiles December 2009

Taking It to the Limits

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 12/01/09 12:00 am

Marina Abramović’s performances, feats of endurance involving self-denial and even self-mutilation, are so influential that MoMA has asked 35 artists to re-create them for an upcoming retrospective—and so provocative that it is building a separate entrance for the show. Read More

Trends June 2009

You Had to Be There

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 06/01/09 12:00 am

More and more artworks exist not as objects but as ephemeral events—a conversation, a thunderclap, a slow-motion kiss—that insist viewers take part. Read More

Features December 2006

Hollywood’s New Wave

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 12/01/06 12:00 am

More and more artists are directing feature films with large casts, big budgets, and elaborate story lines involving everything from intellectual werewolves to Polish cowboys. Read More

Trends April 2006

Slides and Prejudice

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 04/01/06 12:00 am

The controversy around painting from photographs continues as new generations and new image-making technologies keep the debate alive. Read More

Trends December 2005

Why Small Is BIG

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 12/01/05 12:00 am

From Tom Friedman’s eraser shavings to Rob de Mar’s minuscule waterfall to Adia Millett’s tabletop dollhouses, intimately scaled sculptures are making a large impact. Read More

Features April 2005

What Makes a Painting a Painting?

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 04/01/05 12:00 am

It used to be simple: wet paint on a flat surface. No more. Today painting can include photography, digital prints, sculpture, and a host of other materials—but not necessarily paint. Read More

Trends September 2004

What’s So Funny About Contemporary Art?

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 09/01/04 12:00 am

Artists are finding inspiration in gags, slapstick, clowns, comics, and stand-up comedy. The results are sometimes satirical, sometimes ludicrous, and sometimes ‘so funny you could cry’. Read More

Features January 2004

How Far Can You Go?

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 01/01/04 12:00 am

With male nudes in full display, pornography a common source material, and explicit imagery the norm in galleries and museums, sex in art has become fun, disturbing, raunchy—even cerebral. Read More

Trends November 2003

To Thine Own Selves Be True

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 11/01/03 12:00 am

Role-playing is rampant today, with artists picturing themselves as impersonators, cross-dressers, evil twins, and exhibitionists—all to throw traditional ideas about identity up for grabs . Read More

Features April 2002

Harlem: A New Renaissance

By Linda Yablonsky Posted 04/01/02

Harlem: A New Renaissance. A New Renaissance Read More

The Composer: Mary Heilmann’s Rhythmic Abstractions Find Their Place in the Sun

Author Archives: Linda Yablonsky

The Composer: Mary Heilmann’s Rhythmic Abstractions Find Their Place in the Sun

The Art of the Curious Nineties

Taking It to the Limits

You Had to Be There

Hollywood’s New Wave

Slides and Prejudice

Why Small Is BIG

What Makes a Painting a Painting?

What’s So Funny About Contemporary Art?

How Far Can You Go?

To Thine Own Selves Be True

Harlem: A New Renaissance

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