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Event Horizon: Art Happenings Around New York

9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 04/11/16 10:53 am

A guide to the next seven days Read More

Event Horizon: Art Happenings Around New York

9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 03/21/16 10:37 am

A guide to the next seven days Read More

Artists Features ICONS, Spring 2016

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

Reviews Spring 2016

Cutting a Fine Figure: Around New York

By Andrew Russeth Posted 02/17/16 10:46 am

On shows at the Whitney Museum, Hester, Subal, Feuer/Mesler, Beauchene, Hanley, Luxembourg & Dayan, Zwirner, and Canada Read More

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Viewer looking at a document in Disposition Matrix, 2016.

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‘We Could Be Doing Something Differently Every Moment’: Laura Poitras on Her Whitney Show, ‘Astro Noise’

By Hannah Ghorashi Posted 02/10/16 1:46 pm

Laura Poitras became an overnight phenomenon with the release of Citizenfour, the 2014 documentary on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, which won her both an Oscar and a shared Pulitzer for Public Service with journalist and collaborator Glenn Greenwald. Following My Country, My … Read More

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Frank Stella, Das Erdbeben in Chili [N#3], 1999.

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‘This Person Is Multiple, This Practice Is Multiple, and This Might Be Confusing’: A Roundtable Discussion on Frank Stella at the Whitney

By Hannah Ghorashi Posted 01/12/16 12:48 pm

Ever since Frank Stella said that a painting is “a flat surface with paint on it—nothing more,” in the early 1960s, his body of work has appeared to grow steadily outwards. The freestanding architectural works he has made since the mid-’80s … Read More

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The Whitney Acquires an Archibald Motley

By Andrew Russeth Posted 01/11/16 5:34 pm

One of the most thrilling exhibitions to arrive in New York last year was “Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” at the Whitney, a traveling retrospective of the under-sung African American artist, organized by the Nasher Museum at Duke University. It … Read More

2015: The Year in Review

Installation view of 'Kounellis Sturtevant Tiravanija' at Gavin Brown's Enterprise.COURTESY GBE

The Year in the Galleries of New York

By Andrew Russeth Posted 12/29/15 2:09 pm

Plus, a few items elsewhere in the city and a top 7 list from all over Read More

Features December 2015

Installation view of “Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010” at MoMA, which did not use wall texts. COURTESY MOMA

Wall Talk: Do We Even Need Museum Wall Labels?

By Ann Landi Posted 12/21/15 9:30 am

There was a time when the labels and texts in museum shows were matter-of-fact explanations—the artist, title, date, medium, and then a few informative words from the curator. But as exhibitions have become more extravagant, provocative, and controversial, attended by … Read More

Reviews December 2015

Archibald J. Motley Jr., Blues, 1929, oil on canvas, 36" x 42". ©VALERIE GERRARD BROWNE/COURTESY THE CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS/COLLECTION OF MARA MOTLEY, MD, AND VALERIE GERRARD BROWNE

Archibald Motley at Whitney Museum

By Mona Molarsky Posted 12/18/15 11:00 am

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Pictures at an Exhibition

Jared Madere, Untitled, 2015, mixed media, installation view. BILL JACOBSON/COURTESY DAVID LEWIS GALLERY, NEW YORK/COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST

Jared Madere at Whitney Museum, Selected by Dawn Kasper

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 12/16/15 3:38 pm

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week’s shows are selected by Dawn Kasper Read More

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Christopher Lew and Mia Locks Will Organize the 2017 Whitney Biennial

By Andrew Russeth Posted 11/04/15 4:25 pm

Here’s some rather big news on an otherwise sleepy Wednesday afternoon: the Whitney Museum has tapped Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks to organize the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which will be the first edition of the closely watched exhibition to … Read More

News Reviews

Frank Stella, Grajau I, 1975.© 2015 FRANK STELLA/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Abstraction: Frank Stella Stuns at the Whitney

By Phyllis Tuchman Posted 11/02/15 3:00 pm

Get ready to be dazzled by Stellaworld. The dozens of eye-popping paintings and massive sculptures executed by Frank Stella, beginning in 1958, that fill the Whitney Museum’s capacious fifth floor and outdoor terrace are going to envelop you. As soon … Read More

Artists Features November 2015

Frank Stella, redjang, 2009. ©2015 FRANK STELLA/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/PRIVATE COLLECTION

The Wrestler: Frank Stella Readies a Landmark Third New York Retrospective

By Andrew Russeth Posted 10/27/15 9:30 am

On a sunny morning in early September, 79-year-old artist Frank Stella stood on the loading dock of his studio in upstate New York. Across the street a gigantic crane was lifting a couple of hulking wooden crates off the back … Read More

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9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

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

Cutting a Fine Figure: Around New York

‘We Could Be Doing Something Differently Every Moment’: Laura Poitras on Her Whitney Show, ‘Astro Noise’

‘This Person Is Multiple, This Practice Is Multiple, and This Might Be Confusing’: A Roundtable Discussion on Frank Stella at the Whitney

The Whitney Acquires an Archibald Motley

The Year in the Galleries of New York

Wall Talk: Do We Even Need Museum Wall Labels?

Archibald Motley at Whitney Museum

Jared Madere at Whitney Museum, Selected by Dawn Kasper

Christopher Lew and Mia Locks Will Organize the 2017 Whitney Biennial

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Abstraction: Frank Stella Stuns at the Whitney

The Wrestler: Frank Stella Readies a Landmark Third New York Retrospective

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