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Art in Review

The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Carl Fredrik Hill’s astounding career is sharply divided by madness into two halves, with ambition and determination their ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Performa,  Dalton

Art Review | 'Modernism + Art20': A One-Stop Eyeful of Mediums

Which is better: a mediocre work of art or an outstanding design object? This question buzzes about Modernism + Art20, the new two-in-one art and design fair at the Park Avenue Armory through Monday. An answer never emerges, possibly because there ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Don Johnson,  Jean Arp,  Alexander Calder,  Museum of Modern Art,  Louis Comfort Tiffany

Art Review | Roni Horn: Gaining a Voice and an Identity in Minimalism

Sometimes it seems as if Roni Horn’s art were considered the greatest thing since sliced bread, at least in certain regions of the art world. Right now, the Whitney Museum is one. It has accorded two full floors to Ms. Horn’s exhibition of sculpture, ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roni Horn,  Emily Dickinson

Albert York, 80, reclusive landscape painter

NEW YORK - Albert York, a painter of small, mysterious landscapes who shunned the art world yet had a fervent following within it, died Tuesday in Southampton, N.Y. He was 80 and lived in Water Mill, N.Y. The cause was cancer, said Cecily Langdale of ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, Boston Globe,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Obituaries: Albert York, Reclusive Landscape Painter, Dies at 80

Albert York, a painter of small, mysterious landscapes who shunned the art world yet had a fervent following within it, died Tuesday in Southampton, N.Y. He was 80 and lived in Water Mill, N.Y. The cause was cancer, said Cecily Langdale of Davis & ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Art Review | Urs Fischer: Exploration of Space

The sculptor Urs Fischer is hot, young and European. When it comes to installation art, he is prone to an efficient form of spectacle: he simply has very large holes cut or dug in the walls or floors of galleries, museums and the occasional art fair ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Urs Fischer,  Roni Horn,  Museum of Modern Art,  Martin Kippenberger,  Gavin Brown

Art Review | 'Art of the Samurai': Wise Warriors, Artfully Attired

For the Japanese samurai, dying well was the best revenge. This elite warrior class began to play a central role in Japan’s history and culture around the eighth century and in time evolved into the country’s ruling caste. Highly cultivated in arts ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Darth Vader,  Honda

Art Review: One Nation, in Broad Strokes

American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 Winslow Homers Dressing for the Carnival (1877) is part of this show at the Met. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Winslow Homer,  John Singleton Copley,  Mary Cassatt,  Thomas Eakins,  John Singer Sargent

Robert M. Murdock, Curator and Scholar, Dies at 67

Robert M. Murdock, an art historian and curator of 20th-century and contemporary art who organized some notable exhibitions, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 67. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ford Foundation,  Richard Tuttle,  Helen Frankenthaler

Art Review | 'Dress Codes': Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement

In David Rosetzky’s video portrait of Cate Blanchett in “Dress Codes” at the International Center of Photography, this Australian actress looks startlingly ordinary, if not frumpy. She wears clunky boots, unflattering slacks and a sagging black tank ...

From ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: International Center of Photography,  Cate Blanchett,  Edward Steichen,  Richard Avedon,  Oscar Wilde

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