David Salle

Who Am I? What Am I?

Charles Ray’s ambitious, technologically sophisticated sculptures allow viewers to enjoy figurative realism without the taint of kitsch.

Charles Ray: Figure Ground

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, January 31–June 5, 2022

December 8, 2022 issue

Going on Her Nerve

The idiosyncratic English artist Rose Wylie makes the process of importing things in the world to the realm of the painted feel exhilarating and new.

May 12, 2022 issue

Rauschenberg in Black and White

The way the artist used images he’d collected in his photographic travels reveals his verve for making drama out of juxtaposition.

December 13, 2020

Object Lessons

Has there ever been an artist more sure of himself than Donald Judd?

Judd

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, March 1, 2020–January 9, 2021

Donald Judd Writings

edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray

Donald Judd Interviews

edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray

December 17, 2020 issue

The Great Amalgamator

Rachel Harrison’s starting point is a feeling of disconnectedness, estrangement, and simmering revolt fed by a finely cultivated disgust.

Rachel Harrison Life Hack

an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, October 25, 2019–January 12, 2020

January 16, 2020 issue

Charline von Heyl: Dunesday, 62 x 60 inches, 2016

Houdini with a Brush

Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes

an exhibition at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, June 22–September 23, 2018; the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, October 14, 2018–January 13, 2019; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., November 8, 2018–April 21, 2019

May 9, 2019 issue

The Star of the Silken Screen

Warhol was the first artist to grasp the potential for pattern and rhythm released by the screen-print process

Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 18–September 2, 2019; and the Art Institute of Chicago, October 20, 2019–January 26, 2020

February 21, 2019 issue

Musical Lines

Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions

an exhibition at the Drawing Center, New York City, April 6–August 12, 2018

August 16, 2018 issue

Theater of the Self

The art of Danh Vo is popular and politically engaged, though it’s the opposite of agitprop

Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away

an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, February 9–May 9, 2018; and the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, August 30–December 2, 2018

May 10, 2018 issue

Art in Free Fall

Laura Owens brings a light touch and a tough mind to a new kind of synthetic painting.

Laura Owens

an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, November 10, 2017–February 4, 2018; the Dallas Museum of Art, March 25–July 29, 2018; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 4, 2018–March 25, 2019

February 8, 2018 issue

Playing It Cool

Alex Katz

an exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York City, November 5–December 22, 2017

January 18, 2018 issue

Outing the Inside

Louise Bourgeois called attention to emotions that most people prefer to keep hidden: shame, disgust, fear of abandonment, jealousy, anger.

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, September 24, 2017–January 28, 2018

Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois

by Robert Storr

December 7, 2017 issue

Clothes/Not Clothes: War/Peace, from ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between’

Clothes That Don’t Need You

Rei Kawakubo has been working, for decades, at a level that most artists can only fantasize about.

Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 4–September 4, 2017

September 28, 2017 issue