Commentaries

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.

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