Commentaries

Curator Katherine Brinson writes on Maybe Maybe Not.

Artist David Salle writes on Beautiful, Vivid, Self-Contained.

Curator Karel Schampers writes on The Human Body.

Curator Mika Yoshitake writes on Mika Tajima: Super Natural

Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, critic, and curator, on The Writing’s on the Wall: Language and Silence in the Visual Arts.

Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President of Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island, writes on Field of view.

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Scout Hutchinson, Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Parrish Art Museum, writes on Sam Moyer: Woman with Holes.

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Professor Terry Smith, Andrew W Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at University of Pittsburgh, writes on Hilton Als’ The Writing’s on the Wall: Language and Silence in the Visual Arts.

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Artist Chat with Mika Tajima

Explore Zine Reflections: A Year with Art: the final project for the 2023–24 class of Teen Curators.

Artist Chat with Albert Oehlen.

Artist Chat with Adam Pendleton.

Artist Chat with the artist Ed Ruscha

Artist Chat with the artist Caroline Kent.

Artist Chat with the artist Wang Guangle.

Introducing Artist Chats, where we chat with artists from the Hill Collection.

We sat down with art historian Levi Prombaum, who wrote the catalogue text to accompany The Sea, the Sky, a Window.

Read Levi Prombaum’s curatorial essay to accompany The Sea, the Sky, a Window.

Scholars Adam Williams and Alan Wintermute on Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).

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Color Test series consists of an LED light box confronting the viewer with an overwhelming abundance of colors.

As I’ve confined myself to my workspace at home as so many others across the world have done over the past months, my thoughts often traveled back to an amazing group of works that were recently assembled at the MET Breuer for the last venue of the exhibition tour of Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, a retrospective we co-organized with colleagues SFMOMA.

This magnetic composition stems from a period in Christopher Wool’s practice when he began to use his previous creative output as the source material for new, autonomous paintings.

Creating these stitched paintings is a much more physical process than one might think.

Essay to accompany Three Christs, Sleeping Mime, and the Last Supper
Pagan Paradise

“BBQ” belongs to Albert Oehlen’s cycle of grey paintings, a series that the artist has periodically returned to as an exercise in self-discipline. 

This magnificent stained-glass window by Valentin Bousch is currently undergoing conservation prior a future display at the gallery.

Read the foreword to the catalogue accompanying Minjung Kim’s exhibition.

This monumental window, nearly twelve feet tall, was made in 1533 by one of the greatest stained-glass artists of the time, Valentin Bousch.