Matisse’s Miracle in Red A small exhibition at MoMA captures a big moment in Modernism.
Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio is among the most gorgeous lodestars in all of modernism. Completed in 1911, it depicts…
Helen Marten and the Thingness of Words
In Sadie Coles’s sprawling Kingly Street gallery, Helen Marten lays out an exquisite corpse of ordinary affects. It’s impossible to…
Jerry Saltz: Jessica Jackson Hutchins Finds Truth in Clay
“Castratos of Moon-Mash” is what Wallace Stevens said we’d be “without the sexual myth, the human revery or poem of…
‘Holbein at the Tudor Court’
Stripped of the fashions of his day, sat bleakly against a plain blue wall, Johannes Froben doesn’t look like a…
A Sanctuary Between Japan and America
The 16 paintings by Miyoko Ito on display at Matthew Marks Gallery glow densely with color, as if lit by…
Jean Genet
Jean Genet’s public life was more than a little schizophrenic: a thief, a beggar and a homosexual prostitute, who wrote…
Kara Walker’s Triumphant New Show Is the Best Art Made About This Country in This Century
James Baldwin once said that “no true account really of black life can be held, can be contained, in the…