- New York Antiquarian Book Fair @ Park Avenue Armory
In the age of the blog, when even last year’s best-selling hardcover seems like a relic from another time, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which turns fifty this year, is a joyful validation of the book as artifact, of faded dust jackets, creaking bindings, and vibrant illustrations (April 9-11). (Park Avenue Armory, Park Ave. at 67th St. 212-777-5218.) April 9 Park Ave. at 66th...
- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
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Works by more than a thousand artists from a hundred and eighty international galleries will be on display as this storied London fair makes its New York City début. The event also includes talks, performances, a sculpture park, and newly commissioned projects. (Randall . . ....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Grand and Grandiose
Peter Schjeldahl on “Abstract Expressionist New York,” at MOMA....
- Peter Schjeldahl: The New York School
Peter Schjeldahl on the Tibor de Nagy Gallery...
- Peter Schjeldahl: “Your History Is Not Our History,” at Haunch of Venison.
8220;Your History Is Not Our History” is a smart, odd show of vintage works by an ecumenical array of twenty New York art stars of the nineteen-eighties, from the turbulent Julian Schnabel to the icy Louise Lawler. What’s peculiar is the site: high in a . . ....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Monsters and Shy Beauties
Peter Schjeldahl looks at “Chaos and Classicism,” at the Guggenheim....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Rembrandt’s “Self-Portrait,” at the Frick.
Is the Frick’s Rembrandt “Self-Portrait” of 1658 the best painting in New York? Its return from a revelatory cleaning coincides with a fine show, “Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections.” Bankrupt by the age of fifty-two, the . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Peter Schjeldahl: Romantic Windows
Peter Schjeldahl on "Rooms with a View" at the Metropolitan Museum....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim.
You will enjoy your visit to the Tino Sehgal whatchamacallit at the Guggenheim—“show” doesn’t fill the bill—or else expose yourself as a hopeless grouch. The thirty-four-year-old London-born artist’s “relational” works can seem chichi in . . ....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Juicy Fruit.
Peter Schjeldahl on the Dakis Joannou collection....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Sweet and Unusual
Peter Schjeldahl on the 2012 Whitney Biennial....
- Peter Schjeldahl: A Bohemian’s Bohemian
Peter Schjeldahl on Modigliani...
- Peter Schjeldahl: Finish Fetish
Peter Schjeldahl on California minimalism....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Man of Mannerism.
Peter Schjeldahl on the drawings of Agnolo Bronzino....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Handsome and Restrained.
Peter Schjeldahl on the Whitney Biennial....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Weapons of Ambition.
Peter Schjeldahl on the work of Otto Dix....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Mystical Realism
Peter Schjeldahl on Charles Burchfield....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Five Years of Audacity
Peter Schjeldahl on Henri Matisse....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Engines of Pleasure
Peter Schjeldahl on Pipilotti Rist....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Body of Work
Peter Schjeldahl on the art of Paul Thek....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Black and White
Peter Schjeldahl on Glenn Ligon...
- Peter Schjeldahl: Haarlem Baroque
Peter Schjeldahl on Frans Hals....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Master of Abstraction
Peter Schjeldahl on Willem de Kooning....
- Peter Schjeldahl: The Islamic Wing
Peter Schjeldahl on the Metropolitan Museum’s Islamic wing....
- Peter Schjeldahl: What has become of drawing?
Cubism threw art into a blender and hit the chop button. Subsequent avant-gardes proceeded, by stages, to today’s setting: purée. That’s an unfair summary of “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” a show of some three hundred works, from 1897 . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Peter Schjeldahl: What has become of drawing?
Cubism threw art into a blender and hit the chop button. Subsequent avant-gardes proceeded, by stages, to today’s setting: purée. That’s an unfair summary of “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” a show of some three hundred works, from 1897 . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Peter Schjeldahl: Anything Goes
Peter Schjeldahl on Gordon Matta-Clark...
- Peter Schjeldahl: The Apostle of Modern Art
Peter Schjeldahl on Cézanne...