The Other Modernism: Rediscovering Iran’s Avant-Garde
Overshadowed by revolution, sanctions, and outdated notions of the Modern, Iran’s vibrant postwar art scene is coming into focus at the Asia Society Read More
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Author Archives: Robin Cembalest
What She Did For Love: Tracey Emin Hearts Times Square
British artist’s first American public-art piece will inspire passersby to kiss—or cry Read More
Smithson Trumps Snooki: New Jersey is State of the Art
Princeton gives Jersey its props, MoMA’s Capital Exchange program drops, Cleveland rocks a mega-multi-touch-screen, and more museum news Read More
From Black Power to Migrants’ Power
As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today Read More
What I Like About You: Artists to Follow on Instagram
How Laurie Simmons, Ryan McGinness, Kenny Scharf, and others are using the photo-sharing network to disseminate their work—and their fixations Read More
Everyone’s a critic–or a curator
The duchess, Pompeiians, activists, Oscars, Aaron Swartz, Shepard Fairey and more in links from around the Web Read More
Painting Auschwitz Blue
Some artists trick the public into perceiving images of the Holocaust anew; others want viewers to “feel” it Read More
Remixing Romare Bearden
The Bearden iPad app, your Demuth’s in the mail, Frida threatens to shave, and other links from around the Web (and MTV) Read More
![Roman Vishniac, [Zionist youth building a chool and foundry while learning construction techniques, Werkdorp Nieuwesluis, Wieringermeer, The Netherlands], 1939.](http://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/41-120x120.jpg)
Taking Roman Vishniac Out of the Ghetto
With a trove of images that were unseen, unprinted, and unknown, the ICP creates a new and nuanced portrait of the photographer best known for documenting the vanished world of Eastern European Jewry Read More
(More) Old Masters of Our Domain
Riffs on the classics, part 2: from Artschwager’s altarpiece to Kanye’s hoodie Read More
What a Short, Strange Miami Trip It’s Been
Best optical illusion, best cat, and other highlights that linger in the mind and the brain after five days of fair-going Read More
Immigrants and Ancestors
A painting by an Argentine son of Italians echoes works by a Lithuanian-born Brazilian and a Spaniard exiled in France Read More
