Commentaries

Perspectives from artists, curators, and scholars.

From Laura Hoptman

A rectangular, off-white canvas featuring scribbles, abstract shapes, and smudges of various colors,...

Highlights: Laura Hoptman on Cy Twombly

From Patricia Wengraf

Highlights: Patricia Wengraf on Bacchus wearing a Silenus mask

From Jean-Marie Gallais

The walls painted with squares of blue, green, purple, yellow, and red. There are over 100 sheets...

Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch, Artisan-Observer

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From Gary Garrels

Highlights: Gary Garrels on Willem de Kooning

From Spencer Finch and Mark Godfrey

A large gallery with the walls painted with squares of blue, green, purple, yellow, and red. There...

Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch in Conversation with Mark Godfrey

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From Massimiliano Gioni

Highlights: Massimiliano Gioni on Albert Oehlen

From Margot Norton

Highlights: Margot Norton on Mika Tajima

From Karel Schampers

White and gray sink with missing faucets attached to a wall

Highlights: Karel Schampers on Robert Gober

From Thelma Golden

Man in hat seated in chair with younger man standing behind him.

Highlights: Thelma Golden on Jordan Casteel

From Julia Siemon

Highlights: Julia Siemon on Jacopo da Pontormo

From Amber Esseiva

Highlights: Amber Esseiva on Kevin Beasley

From Katherine Brinson

Installation photo of three large abstract works hang on floating gallery walls with window views...

Exhibition Text: Maybe Maybe Not

From David Salle

Exhibition Text: Beautiful, Vivid, Self-Contained

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From Karel Schampers

Installation shot of horizontal view of artwork in exhibition space

Exhibition Text: The Human Body

From Mika Yoshitake

Two Rose Quartz sculptures with cast bronze jacuzzi jet nozzles on its surface placed on wooden...

Exhibition Text: Super Natural

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From Hilton Als

Exhibition Text: The Poetics of Silence

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From Lauren Haynes

Exhibition Text: Lauren Haynes on Field of view

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From Sam Moyer and Cathleen Chaffee

Sam Moyer and Cathleen Chaffee in Conversation (2025)

From Scout Hutchinson

Exhibition Text: Shadow of the Thing

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From Terry Smith

Words Don’t Come Easy: Hilton Als on Language and Silence in the Visual Arts

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From Hilton Als

Hilton Als and David Leeming in Conversation (2025)

From Jordan Casteel and Lauren Haynes

Jordan Casteel and Lauren Haynes in Conversation (2024)

From Daren Ho

Sound Bath with Daren Ho (2024)

From Mika Tajima

A woman wearing all pink sits on a palette carrying a large block of rose quartz. Another palette...

Artist Chat: Mika Tajima

From 2023–24 Teen Curators

Zine Reflections: A Year with Art

From Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen Portrait, Photographer Oliver Schultz Berndt

Artist Chat: Albert Oehlen

From Adam Pendleton

Adam Pendleton. Portrait: Matthew Septimus⁠

Artist Chat: Adam Pendleton

From Ed Ruscha

An older man with white hair and blue eyes against a bright blue background.

Artist Chat: Ed Ruscha

From Caroline Kent

A woman in a denim jumpsuit in a studio. She is working on a collage on the table in front of her,...

Artist Chat: Caroline Kent

From Wang Guangle

Artist Chat: Wang Guangle

From Robert Gober

Artist Chat: Robert Gober

From Madeline Hollander

Pentagon Dance (2024)

From Levi Prombaum

Levi Prombaum and Sarah Crowner smiling in front of blue painting.

In Conversation with Levi Prombaum

From Levi Prombaum

Tall bronze sculpture with round base and arrow-shaped top in front of blue and white painting...

Exhibition Text: Set and Setting

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Painting Air Installation (2022)

From Terence Washington

Installation view with two paintings and a sculpture

Exhibition Text: Spaces for Understanding

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From The Baer Faxt

Tom Hill and Josh Baer in Conversation (2021)

From Adam Williams and Alan Wintermute

Teacher and Student: Rubens and Van Dyck in The Hill Collection

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From Jordan Casteel and Ashley James

Jordan Casteel and Ashley James in Conversation (2020)

From J. Tomilson Hill

Jordan Casteel’s Introduction by Tom Hill at Hirshhorn’s Demetrion Lecture (2020)

From Anne Pasternak, Dan Sallick, and Ben Jones

Anne Pasternak, Dan Sallick, Ben Jones: New Social Environment Lunchtime Conversation #66

From Spencer Finch

An installation of a box backed with white light with different colors of semi-transparent squares...

On Spencer Finch’s Color Test series

From J. Tomilson Hill and Richard Armstrong

Tom Hill and Richard Armstrong in Conversation

From Ian Alteveer

A bigger-than-life sculpture of a used pink eraser with label: 100| Pink Pearl Eberhard Faber USA

On Vija Celmins’s Pearl Pink Eraser

From Katherine Brinson

On Christopher Wool’s Untitled

From Astrid Hill

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ArtTactic Podcast (2020)

From Minjung Kim

Minjung Kim: The New Social Environment Lunchtime Conversation

From Sarah Crowner

Horizontal leaf shapes on a white canvas

On Sarah Crowner’s Rotated Stretched Stems

From Charles Ray

Exhibition Text: Three Christs, Sleeping Mime and the Last Supper

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From Boon Hui Tan

Exhibition Text: Ink As Contemporary Practice

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From Massimiliano Gioni

Abstract painting with gray and white toned brush stokes and erasure marks

On Albert Oehlen’s BBQ

From Minjung Kim

In Conversation with Minjung Kim (2020)

From Drew Anderson

Conservation of The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise

Untitled Installation (2020)

From Timothy Husband

A colorful 3 lancet, 18 panel, stained glass window depicting a biblical scene

On The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise

From Sean Kelly

Tom Hill and Sean Kelly in Conversation (2018)

From J. Tomilson Hill

A sculpture made out of bronze with three subjects depicted in a pyramid composition with a serpent...

Excerpt from Frick Collection exhibition catalogue

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