Robert Storr

Pettibon’s World

Raymond Pettibon is an artist obsessed with the larger, grittier, and often hallucinatory contradictions of “this American life.”

Pipilotti’s Pleasure Dome

The large-scale exhibition on Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist at the New Museum has conjured a pantheistic pleasure dome. At its most effective, it is almost capable of putting the mess we are in out of mind.

The Great American Cubist

The work of the decidedly upbeat and overtly stylish Stuart Davis may appear to be dated with its period graphic tropes, yet the abiding immediacy of his painterly manner has given it an enduring, if less noted, presence in the evolution of US art.

Guston's Hilarious Horror

Philip Guston felt a discrepancy between the transcendental qualities of his abstract work and the harsh, down-to-earth realities of America in crisis, and he needed to confront that strife head on.