Art
How Robert Kobayashi Elevated the Tin Can
For all the sameness of material and process, Kobayashi was able to attain a wide range of nuanced feeling and subtle pictorial conventions in his tin artworks.
Sculpture
Art
Martha Tuttle's Sentient Stones at Storm King
When used as wayfinding landmarks or burial mounds, piles of stones can have an air of mystery about them.
Art
Patrick Strzelec Shows Us One Way to Cut the Mustard
Uncertainty is important, and not just because we are living in uncertain times.
Art
Shiva the Inscrutable
Shiva dances a dance of sheer bliss.
Books
How Alexander Calder Made Modern Art Move
In the second volume of a definitive biography, the art critic Jed Perl recalls how the innovative artist revolutionized sculpture.
Art
Ways of Traveling
“MARFA,” a wall piece by Greg Colson, is a street map in the purest sense, and highly impractical.
Art
My Argument With Andy Warhol
It’s all slightly depressing that we can't seem to get rid of the Warhol itch.
Art
Joana Vasconcelos’s Bold, Feminist Sculptures Pop Against an English Landscape
Deliberately unsubtle, the central message of Vasconcelos’s work challenges the snobbery of the art world and champions the inclusion of women and outsiders.
Art
Sculpting With Light, Drawing With Shadow
It’s hard to identify precedents for Christopher Wilmarth’s sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.
Art
My Meetings With Donald Judd
Judd hated the cult of the artist.
Art
What Lies Between Jokes and Art
Both are prone to the response, “I don’t get it.”
Art
Do the Old Masters Still Speak to Us?
Now and then, I suspect that an honest art writer might feel as if he or she is losing it.