Opinion Does Vikky Alexander, a Canadian, Have to Make Canadian Art? THE DAILY PIC: At Downs & Ross, Alexander makes nature and nurture colide, eh? By Blake Gopnik, Feb 14, 2017
Opinion Jenny Holzer’s Maxims: As Pungent Today as Four Decades Ago THE DAILY PIC: At Alden Projects, Holzer's early street texts voice anxieties that feel strangely familiar. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 13, 2017
Opinion What to Make of MoMA’s Stand on Trump’s Travel Ban A closer look at what the rehang actually means. By Ben Davis, Feb 10, 2017
Opinion Francis Picabia: Postmodern Genius or a Rich Freak? THE DAILY PIC: At MoMA, we see Picabia decide to throw out modern styles even before modernism had gelled. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 10, 2017
Opinion From Johan Grimonprez, a Look at War and Its Lies THE DAILY PIC: At Sean Kelly, Johan Grimonprez's anti-war video has talking heads who raise doubts about their own talk. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 9, 2017
Opinion In Fin-de-Siècle Paris, Henri-Charles Guérard Made Quietly Decadent Prints THE DAILY PIC: At the New York Public Library, printmaker Henri-Charles Guérard is a master of subtle strangeness. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 8, 2017
Opinion Mierle Laderman Ukeles Made Trash Collectors Feel Like the Muses THE DAILY PIC: In the Queens Museum retrospective of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, her art gives sanitation workers the props they deserve. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 7, 2017
Opinion In the 1950s, New York Couldn’t Handle Andy Warhol’s Gay Art THE DAILY PIC: In “Inventing Downtown” at the Grey Art Gallery, Warhol failed to get into one space the show explores. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 6, 2017
Opinion Lynn Hershman Leeson Makes Art From Life’s Challenges THE DAILY PIC: At Bridget Donahue, videos by Hershman Leeson show a couple as their rancor builds, and the artist as she admits to prostitution. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 3, 2017
Opinion Pedro Orrente: Hardly Velázquez, But Can’t We Love Him for a Single Moment of Brilliance? THE DAILY PIC: At the Walters Art Museum, one great detail from an Orrente painting made him out to be Velázquez's ancestor. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 2, 2017
Opinion Martha Edelheit, Another Postwar Talent Left Out of Art History’s Storyline THE DAILY PIC: In the Grey gallery's 'Inventing Downtown' show, Martha Edelheit proves that the 1950s talent pool went deeper than art's big names. By Blake Gopnik, Feb 1, 2017
Opinion Kate Gilmore’s ‘Beat’: A Performance that Channels the Anger All Women Should Feel THE DAILY PIC: At On Stellar Rays, Gilmore gets women to stomp their way to the next wave of feminism. By Blake Gopnik, Jan 31, 2017
Opinion Activist Art in ‘Perpetual Revolution’ Left Blake Gopnik Hoping for a Revolt THE DAILY PIC: At the International Center of Photography, activist art that makes art seem trivial. By Blake Gopnik, Jan 30, 2017
Opinion Mohamed Bourouissa Documents America’s Cowboys—Black, Urban Ones THE DAILY PIC: At the Studio Museum in Harlem, Bourouissa gives us a different view of horsemanship. By Blake Gopnik, Jan 27, 2017
Opinion Burt Barr Records an Ice Cube as it Melts, for a Movie With the Ultimate in Predictable Endings THE DAILY PIC: At Sikkema Jenkins, Barr's video helps us focus on change. By Blake Gopnik, Jan 26, 2017