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Josh Kline Is Here to Give You Some Alternative Facts
Zoom is generally no way to view art, but for Josh Kline’s exhibition “Alternative Facts,” at Various Small Fires in Seoul, it was oddly fitting. I saw the show with a dozen other writers during a Zoom...
View ArticleU.K. Art Institutions Face Another Lockdown and More: Morning Links from...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News After accusations of sexual misconduct were leveled against Aydin Aghdashloo, a solo...
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Unboxing the Museum
From 1967 to 1978, the curator and artist Johannes Cladders (1924–2009) organized a series of thirty-five shows intended to explore and expand the relationship between institutions and audiences at the...
View Article7 Works to Know by Jasper Johns: How to Decode the Artist’s Cryptic Paintings...
Until 1954, Jasper Johns routinely destroyed his artworks, feeling them somehow inadequate. Then everything changed. He met artist Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he led a romantic relationship, and he...
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The ARTnews Accord: Curators Scott Rothkopf and Carlos Basualdo Talk...
Scott Rothkopf is senior deputy director and chief curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he has worked since 2009. Among his many credits are exhibitions of work by Laura Owens, Jeff...
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Gray Areas: Artists on Jasper Johns
“It may be a great work of his to have brought doubt into the air that surrounds art.” Jasper Johns wrote these words in A.i.A.’s July/August 1969 issue, for a remembrance of Marcel Duchamp, who had...
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Tracking the Shadow: Jill Johnston on Jasper Johns
The cover story of A.i.A.’s October 1987 issue is an expansive essay by critic Jill Johnston (1929–2010) on Jasper Johns’s art in the 1980s. Intrigued by his increasing use of enigmatic personal...
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Spinning Wheels: Rochelle Feinstein at Bridget Donahue and Candice Madey
Cramped boxes, unsolvable mazes, numbing repetitions—these are the building blocks of Rochelle Feinstein’s comedy. The paintings in “You Again”—a multicity exhibition, spanning more than thirty years,...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Artworks About the U.S. Flag, From the Patriotic to the Provocative
In 1970, at the Judson Memorial Church in New York, Jon Hendricks, Faith Ringgold, and Jean Toche opened “The People’s Flag Show,” an art exhibition that has gone down in history not for what was on...
View ArticlePost-War and Contemporary Art From Iowa Business Leaders To Be Sold at...
Works from the art collection of Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Pappajohn and his wife Mary will be offered as a group of highlights during Christie’s Spring sales in New York next...
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