In Joan Semmel’s Crossed Legs, 2011, the sexuality is more restrained than in her earlier work.
Trends

The Body In Winter

By Posted 05/31/12

Artists are taking on themes of aging, transformation, and decay Read More

“My role will be different than it ever could have been at the Met,” says Tinterow of his new position in Houston.
News

Thinking Big

By Posted 05/29/12

Gary Tinterow returns to Texas to run the Museum of Fine Arts—and to grow it even larger Read More

Cézanne’s The Large Bathers, 1906, devoid of slick finish and slick emotion, is rife with contradictions.
Looking at Art

Bathers But Not Beauties

By Posted 05/24/12

Cézanne’s nude figures in a landscape are meant to disturb rather than delight us Read More

Dan Flavin, Paul Cézanne, 1959, charcoal, 87⁄8" x 12". Morgan Library & Museum.
Reviews

An Artist Whose Autobiography Was Drawing

By Posted 05/22/12

Dan Flavin at the Morgan Library & Museum Read More

I Didn’t Say, 2011, by Emin.
Features

‘In a Rodin/Turner Sandwich’

By Posted 05/17/12

Tracey Emin finds common ground with two unlikely predecessors in an erotic exhibition Read More

News

Connecting the Dots

By Posted 05/15/12

A new documentary looks for links in the life (and death) or Mark Lombardi Read More

Mickalene Thomas, Sleep: Deux Femmes Noires, 2011 (top), a riff on Courbet’s sleeping women.
Features

Double Exposure

By Posted 05/10/12

In paintings, photography, sculpture, and performance, artists are summoning the age-old distinction between naked and nude to comment on gender roles, sexual politics, stereotypes, and more Read More

Mark Rothko, Iphigenia and the Sea/Horizontal Phantasy, 1943, oil on canvas, 353⁄4" x 48". Portland Art Museum.
Reviews

When Rothko Was Rothkowitz

By Posted 05/08/12

Mark Rothko at the Portland Art Museum Read More

Louise Bourgeois sculpting Sleep II in Italy, 1967 (above). The Dangerous Obsession, 2003 (below).
News

Analyze This

By Posted 05/03/12

The Freud Museum puts Louise Bourgeois on the couch Read More

Priced at $1,200, John Baldessari’s Quality Material attracted no buyers in 1968. In 2007 it fetched $4.4 million at Christie’s.
Books

How to Buy, Sell, & Have an ‘Aha’ Moment

By Posted 05/02/12

On ‘The Value of Art’ Read More

Ileana Sonnabend, Robert Rauschenberg, and Michael Sonnabend at Galerie Sonnabend in Paris, ca. 1963.
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Rauschenberg Eagle Ruffles Feathers

By Posted 05/01/12

Sonnabend heirs, IRS dispute value of ‘Canyon’ Read More