Let It Bleed: The Frightening Scene on the Met’s Roof
A history of violence resonates in Imran Qureshi’s massive rooftop painting at the Metropolitan Museum, and in other shows by Benny Andrews, Nancy Spero, and more Read More
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Author Archives: Robin Cembalest
Your Thievin’ Art? At Play in the Field of Fair Use
Your mug shot. Your profile picture. Your breakfast table. Is anything safe from appropriation artists? Read More
The Gentle Giants of Rockefeller Center
Provoking feelings of awe—and awww, Ugo Rondinone’s modern megaliths are among the public artworks redefining the idea of the monumental Read More
Let My People Go—Back to Poland
“And Europe Will Be Stunned,” Yael Bartana’s celebrated film trilogy introducing Poland’s Jewish Renaissance Movement, arrived at Petzel Gallery for its first New York showing–just as a new museum devoted to Jewish culture was opening its doors in Warsaw. Suddenly things got a lot “more real” Read More
Dome Improvement—What’s an Art Museum Doing in Rockaway Beach?
MoMA PS1’s VW Dome 2 is the latest in a wave of museum outposts that are humble, nimble, and temporary, offering free admission—and much more than art Read More
Birds Do It, Bees Do It: Taking Animals’ Art Skills Seriously
Move over, painting chimps. Today’s art-making animals are cutting-edge creators who turn up everywhere from the National Zoo to MoMA Read More
The Art That Made Peru Peru
Three millennia, 350 objects, and one national identity are featured in an ambitious show at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts Read More
Race You to the Porsche Show at the Art Museum
Horsepower meets star power in North Carolina Museum of Art’s upcoming survey of iconic German autos Read More
America, the Great Colossal Collage: Saul Steinberg’s Forgotten Masterpiece
The spectacular, panoramic, pasted-paper mural that Saul Steinberg created for the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair is reassembled for the first time at the Ludwig Museum Read More
The Curator Vanishes: Period Room as Crime Scene
A disappearance, a discovery, and a mystery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, via Mark Dion Read More
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Destructing Chocolate Head
Chocolate was the medium of choice for Janine Antoni and Dieter Roth to depict—and deface—their own image Read More
Girl with a Hoop Earring: Fun with Vermeer
Two beloved Vermeers have left Holland for a stint in the U.S. They’ll find their descendants stripped by Dalí, bedecked in toilet-paper rolls, and reincarnated by Cindy Sherman Read More
