Reviews Vija Celmins’s Stunning Show at the Met Breuer Is a Master Class in How Pictures Don’t Work Anymore The survey presents the artist's counterintuitive mission: to create a totally realist art that shows how the real is out of reach. By Blake Gopnik, Oct 22, 2019
Art World From a Treasure Trove of Mayan Artifacts to the Death of Feminist Pioneer Carolee Schneemann: the Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 8, 2019
On View We’ve Been Looking at Jean-Michel Basquiat All Wrong. He Was a Conceptual Artist, Not an Expressionist—and Here’s Why An exhibition at the Brant Foundation's New York space reveals how much he had in common with Jenny Holzer and Hans Haacke. By Blake Gopnik, Mar 5, 2019
People Pop or Flop? Burger King’s Andy Warhol Super Bowl Ad Succeeded in Alienating Pretty Much Everybody From Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik to disgraced Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly, everyone had opinions, mainly negative ones. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 5, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: Beloved Artist Nick Cave Is Opening His Own Art Space in Chicago + Other Stories Plus, a white-glove sale for Pierre Bergé's collection at Sotheby's and Steve McQueen wants to direct a musical. By Artnet News, Nov 2, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: How Houston’s Museums Steeled Themselves for Hurricane Harvey + More Must-Read Stories Plus, Performa will spotlight African artists and a new drawing fair comes to Paris with big ambitions. By Artnet News, Aug 31, 2017
Opinion When Andy Warhol Went Gaga for Dada Read THE DAILY PIC: When Andy Warhol painted an ad for some piping, it was also an ad of sorts for the Dada sculpture called 'God'. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 23, 2017
Opinion Alex Katz Discovers Pop Art in the Subway THE DAILY PIC: Alex Katz's student works at Timothy Taylor – 'I wanted to paint what was in front of me.' By Blake Gopnik, Jun 22, 2017
Opinion Medrie MacPhee Paints with a Tailor’s Shears THE DAILY PIC: Launching the new Tibor de Nagy space, MacPhee turns gussets and welts into the language of painting. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 20, 2017
Opinion Nancy Spero Captures War’s Atrocity THE DAILY PIC: At Galerie Lelong, Nancy Spero's art takes a stand—and sets an example for today. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 19, 2017
Opinion Martin Boyce Imagines a World Where Modernism Comes Before Beaux-Arts THE DAILY PIC: At Tanya Bonakdar, Boyce crafts a subtly altered universe. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 16, 2017
Opinion A Newly Discovered Warhol Reveals His Modern Roots THE DAILY PIC: A late-50s Warhol commissioned for the CBS offices in Milwaukee was unknown until now. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 15, 2017
Opinion Kaari Upson Blends Absurdist Theater and Real-Estate Porn THE DAILY PIC: In her video at the New Museum, Kaari Upson tours houses so we don't have to. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 13, 2017
Opinion Marcel Duchamp: Making America Great THE DAILY PIC: In the Philadelphia Museum of Art's 'Fountain' centenary, we see that Duchamp found more than its plumbing in New York. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 12, 2017
Opinion Jacopo dei Barbari on Modern Love, circa 1500 THE DAILY PIC: At the New York Public Library, the Venetian artist Jacopo dei Barbari presents Priapus as Renaissance Viagra. By Blake Gopnik, Jun 9, 2017