Words with Friends: Artist-Poet Pairings
Picasso, Ashbery, Rivers, Johns, Motherwell, Alberti and more in “The Artist and the Poet” at the Art Institute of Chicago Read More
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Tag Archives: Robert Rauschenberg
Auto-Destructive Tendencies
Whether by burning, cutting, shredding, or simply leaving them at the curb, artists have various reasons for disposing of their own works Read More
Rauschenberg Eagle Ruffles Feathers
Sonnabend heirs, IRS dispute value of ‘Canyon’ Read More
That Seventies Sensibility
A wave of exhibitions shows how the open-ended, experimental, hardscrabble, less cynical esthetic of the ’70s is appealing to artists and curators Read More
Backdrops, Blobs, Pods, and Props
The Walker Art Center celebrates its acquisition of a trove of objects documenting artists’ collaborations with Merce Cunningham in a series of groundbreaking shows Read More
Geometry of Stardust
Dorothea Rockburne at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Read More
Talking Trash
More and more artists are using trash not just as a material but also as a subject. Read More
Say It with Flowers—or Gourds, Goats, Fur Cups, or Fried Eggs
The interpretation of sexual symbols in art is everywhere. But what we view as erotic often tells us less about the artists than it does about our own sensibilities. Read More
What Makes a Painting a Painting?
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
The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists
Tracking the highest prices paid for contemporary artworks. Read More
How Our Critics Spoke
The good, the bad, the splendid, the beautiful, and “a negation of everything under the sun and the sun itself”. Read More
