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Modern Art
May 30, 2018
Magazine
Jillian Steinhauer
Outside the Comfort Zone
Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.
July 3, 2017
Sophie Pinkham
How a Russian Street Art Museum Defies Kremlin Censors
St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.
December 1, 2015
Edward Docx
The Hirst Corporation
Can a new gallery revive a fading art world star?
July 16, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Norman Mailer's Secret Hobby Was Trying to Draw Like Picasso
Writing was difficult for the author; drawing was joyful
February 16, 2014
Jed Perl
The Armory Show Made Modern Art Something You Love to Hate
Against the cult of novelty
January 10, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is Why We Go to Modern Art Museums
January 19, 2013
Jed Perl
The MOMA's "Inventing Abstraction" is Exhilirating, Challenging, and Completely Wrong
December 2, 1996
Magazine
Jed Perl
Flag Burning
Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.
July 18, 1960
Robert Woods Kennedy
Picasso: A 20th Century Masque
From 1960, a look at how the famous painter depicted relationships between the sexes.
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