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Gerhard Richter’s “Birkenau” paintings are on view at the reopened Metropolitan Museum, and his last major work just opened in Germany’s oldest monastery. He spoke about the Birkenau paintings here, in his last major interview.
Canvas Collection: Gerhard Richter’s Brush With Greatness, WSJ. magazine, June 25, 2016
At 84, the artist continues to add to his oeuvre, which encompasses colorful abstracts, black-and- white photo-realist works, conceptual sculptures and computer-generated prints
Nicole Fleetwood’s “Making Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” just opened at PS1 - I interviewed her for this story:
Portraits From Inside, Looking Out, NYT Arts & Leisure, July 21, 2013
“Visions of the Free World,” an exhibition at the Eastern State Penitentiary museum in Philadelphia, considers the art of prison paintings and the photographs taken in front of them. Slide Show: Images of the Outside
MacArthur “Genius” Jeffrey Gibson’s first major breakthrough moment:
At Peace With Many Tribes • NYT Arts & Leisure, May 19, 2013
After a "huge acceptance of self" as a Cherokee and Choctaw, Jeffrey Gibson took a new path as an artist, and now he's juggling multiple exhibitions. Slide Show: Inspiration in Self-Acceptance
As the Shed unveils Agnes Denes’s long-awaited New York retrospective, here’s a flashback to her first major comeback press coverage, on the occasion of her first solo show with Leslie Tonkonow:
Stretching Her Creativity as Far as Possible • NYT Arts & Leisure, Dec. 2, 2012
The work of the artist Agnes Denes, in all its variety, is being introduced to new audiences in shows on both coasts. Slide show: Good at Math
LA’s Inventory Press is launching the monograph Steven Leiber Catalogs, in memory of the late pioneering dealer, gallerist and collector of ephemera and multiples. Here’s what Leiber himself had to say about the Peter Norton Christmas Project, a multiples project created by another pioneering collector:
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Resale Market • NYT Arts & Leisure, Dec. 18, 2005
For just a few thousand of his closest friends, Peter Norton redefines the art of giving.
As Claes Oldenburg’s archives go to the Getty Research Institute . . . three features and one obituary:
What Happened at Those Happenings? • NYT Arts & Leisure, Feb. 5, 2012
In advance of the Pace exhibition "Happenings: New York, 1958-1963," some of the creators and participants of those fabled events spoke about their lasting influence.
Slide Show: 'Happenings: New York, 1958-1963
Claes Oldenburg - The Virtuoso of Public Sculpture • Art Economist, Nov. 2011, cover story
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and the making of public monuments for over three decades.
Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe • NYT Arts & Leisure, May 17, 2009
Claes Oldenburg reflects on his art at the first show he's had since the death of his wife.
Interactive: Claes, A History • Video: Scenes From 'Fotodeath'
Coosje van Bruggen, Sculptor, Dies at 66 • NYT Obituaries, Jan. 14, 2009
Ms. van Bruggen was a critic, art historian and artist known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg.
R.I.P. Lyn Kienholz:
Southern California Art? Look It Up • NYT Arts & Leisure, December 16, 2007
In her latest project, Lyn Kienholz aims to write Southern California into international art history with an encyclopedia.
How did Marlene Dumas become an art star?
Marlene Dumas's Number Comes Up • NYT Arts & Leisure, March 27, 2005
A few years ago, her paintings sold respectably. Now she's breaking records. Is it long-delayed justice – or sheer luck?
How did Normal Rockwell come to paint "The Golden Rule," his paean to multicultural harmony?
Preserving a Rockwell Era • NYT Museums, March 19, 2009
The Norman Rockwell Museum turns back the clock to 1960, when the artist put his popularity to work for social causes.
Ever wonder why we're so obsessed with polls? Blame it on the Surrealists. They pioneered the craze in 1928, nearly 10 years before statisticians like George Gallup began to quantify it as a science.
Ceci N'est Pas Surrealism: Even if you don't know Surrealism, it knows you • Slate, February 19, 2002
A discussion of Surrealism, plus Slate's first slideshow, Ceci n'est pas Surrealism
May 14, 2016: SF MoMA reopens to the public with a new expansion designed by Snohetta and an installation of the Don and Doris Fisher collection.
Private Collection Becomes Very Public • NYT Arts & Leisure, June 6, 2010
The extraordinary art collection of the Gap's founders, Don and Doris Fisher, will go on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in "Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection."
Feb. 15, 2016: Tate Britain announces major David Hockney retrospective
Hockney's Long Road Home
Arts & Leisure, October 18, 2009 • cover story, featured on home page
A transplanted artist left the pools of Southern California for the landscapes of his native Yorkshire.
Audio Slide Show: An Artist's Homecoming
Jan. 25, 2016: R.I.P. Mr. Dial
Letting His Life's Work Do the Talking
Arts & Leisure, February 20, 2011
The work of Thornton Dial will be on exhibit at his first career retrospective at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Slide Show: Slide Show: Thornton Dial
Video: Excerpt, 'Mr. Dial Has Something to Say'