• Reviews

Modernist Muscle

This spring New York audiences were indulged with two provocatively revealing exhibitions. Visitors to David Zwirner's Nineteenth Street gallery and the Museum of Modern Art could explore a…

• By
  Philip Eliasoph
• Jun 1, 2019 9:05 am

Grace and Will: An Excerpt from Mary Gabriel’s New Book ‘Ninth Street Women’ on Painter Grace Hartigan and Art Market Changes in the 1950s

The book, published by Little Brown, recounts female artists' unbending ambitions and the evolution of an economy in which their work has been undervalued.

• By
  Mary Gabriel
• Sep 25, 2018 11:01 am

• News

Baroque, Bavarian, and Bauhaus Fuse at Chick Austin’s House

A museum director's Hartford home is a pre-postmodern fantasy

• By
  Patricia Failing
• Oct 8, 2014 9:30 am

• News

10 Amazing Data Visualizations of Creativity and Art History

With five New York art spaces showing maps, charts, and diagrams, it's a great moment for flowchart art

• By
  Robin Cembalest
• Feb 20, 2014 7:00 am

• Features

Vern Blosum, the Pop Painter who Punkd MoMA

Fictional artists like Reena Spaulings and Bruce High Quality seem perfectly normal today, but in the early ‘60s?

• By
  Brian Boucher
• Sep 12, 2013 4:20 pm

• News

MoMA Makes a Facebook for Abstractionists

A collaboration between MoMA curators and the Columbia Business School depicts early modernism as a vast social network. It's the latest in a long line of charts showing that no ism is an island

• By
  Robin Cembalest
• Oct 2, 2012 9:50 am

• Features

Leo Steinberg, 1920-2011

Leo Steinberg, a giant among art historians, died on Sunday in Manhattan, age 90. At the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) awards ceremony last night, MoMA curator John Elderfield told t…

• By
  Stephanie Cash
• Mar 15, 2011 4:25 pm