Interview
Beer with a Painter: Gregory Amenoff
“I love it here, but this isn’t my true home,” Gregory Amenoff says, looking out the window of his studio in Ulster County, New York. “Too green,” he declares.
Weekend
Art
History Repeating Itself: Tragedy, Farce, and Judith Bernstein
With her remarkable new exhibition at Mary Boone — her second at the gallery in eight months — Judith Bernstein resurrects the imagery of her Vietnam-era works in a savage takedown of contemporary American politics and its testosterone-fueled will to power.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, David Bowie's style as a GIF, Sean Penn and El Chapo, wealthy artists and grants, MOCA's new permanent collection installation, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Boom
This week, North Korea went boom and China went bust.
Art
Joaquín Torres-García: A Global Modernist Before His Time
Progress is one of the key myths to the reception, assessment, assimilation, and display of modernist art.
Art
Don’t Send in the Clowns: Mime Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Quiet
On 52nd Street, not far from the Neil Simon Theater, where Broadway’s high-tech magic act, The Illusionists, was selling out shows, there lives a more natural illusionist. His name is Richmond Shepard, and he’s an 86-year-old mime.
Art
Jim French, Male Beauty, and Languages of Desire
I recently became aware of the hashtag “#masculinitysofragile.” The words together felt poetic. Fragility is supposed to be the antithesis of masculinity, right?
Art
Not Necessarily Pleasant: The Paintings of Juanita McNeely
One of the more ferociously beautiful shows you’re likely to see this season is by a 79-year-old painter who was barely out of high school when she was given six months to live.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Gramsci hates New Year's, art market bubble, advice from art dealers, remembering Ellsworth Kelly, and more.
Art
The Prince of New York City
It is easy to forget just how really good a painter Alex Katz can be. This is because he makes everything look so easy and natural.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Chocolate
Last week, a food blogger called into question a famous Brooklyn chocolate maker's "bean-to-bar" reputation.
Art
Liubov Popova, an Homage
Sometime in the late 1970s, Miriam Schapiro and Elaine Lustig Cohen gathered a group of feminist artists and writers around my dining room table with a proposal: “Let’s form a consortium to buy the work of the Russian Constructivist women.”