Jasper Johns

The Whitney Finds the Good Thing About the '80s

Taking Some Hacks with Charles McGill

Play them as they lie

DARK & TWISTED

The hippie era: not as 
free as we thought

Gay Museum Wars: Victory? Or a Truce?

For gay artists past and present, it gets better . . . slowly

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, The Finale: Jay-Z And Kanye West Fiddle While The Underground Gets Wasted

Smell that money burning. ​This concludes Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, a conversation about pop music in 2011 between Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph. Read it all again. Thanks for the handoff, Nick, and thanks to Katherine, Tom and esp ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

WOMAN’S WORK

Look back at the best female pop artists

Let's Renegotiate! 'Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture' at the Kitchen

Irony? Sincerity? The venerable Chelsea venue cooks up an uneven mix of paintings on painting.

A Farewell to Merce Cunningham; Disciple Karole Armitage’s Journey Into a World of Fusion

YOUNG AT HEART

Sonic Youth and others celebrate Merce Cunningham’s 90th

Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

Eva Lundsager, R.H. Quaytman, and Mary Heilman Brush Up on Their Painting

Things get drippy and trippy in three current shows of new work

'Image in the Box' at Hollis Taggart; 'The World Is All That Is the Case' at Hudson Franklin

Image in the Box

Bones' Beat: David LaChapelle Wages Holy War at Tony Shafrazi

James Kerry Marshall, Black on Black

Defiant kitsch, at Jack Shainman

Digital Vandalism at Shafrazi Gallery

Too bad you missed the Guernica cake

Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008

The optimist who used a bald eagle to challenge America's idea of art

Jonah Bokaer: The Real You

Partnering shadows, photo images, and inner animals  

Letters

Jasper Johns: Smog Alert

The Metropolitan Museum of Art takes a long look at Johns's 'Gray' matter

Youth is a Prize (Price?) in Chelsea's Art Galleries

Continuing the bow to the 'tepid orthodoxy of youth'

Traces of Genius

Merce Cunningham in rare stillness

Shit Happens

Camp Followers

Where the Wild Things Are

Seasons of the Mind

Heaps and Consequences

An undulating otherworldly river valley, an ethereal cloud-scape, a pixilated city

Our Picasso?

A line drawn in the psychic sands of American sexual and cultural values

Inky Depths

Francesco Clemente, Jasper Johns, Kara Walker, John Currin, and other friends of Dorothy

Art

Popular Pop

From superheroes to Hello Kitty, comic relief makes its way into the art world this spring

Art

A Modest Proposal

Our critic has a few ideas about how to put the new Museum of Modern Art in order

Like A Rock

Pop rocks: The clever, idiosyncratic debut of an artist who happens to make paintings

Virtual Is Political

Pretender contenders: US Department of Art and Technology plays house of representatives

Shrink-Wrapped

On the couch with photographer Shellburne Thurber: 'I realized this is really strange'

The Fresh and the Stale

Merce Cunningham keeps ahead of the times; Cuba's National Ballet fancies up tradition

Pulp Reloaded

Going for the Jugular of Sensation: Art Imitates Lowlife at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Wild Card

Babylon as Usual

When the Going Gets Gloomy in the Art World

Harlem on His Mind

Stop Making Sense

Collective-Memory Lane

The Redemption of a Breast Man

Complexity's Master

Merce Cunningham's 60 Years Onstage

Octogenarian

Hot and Heavy

Finders and Keepers

Up and Down