Reviews Pussy Riot Retrospective Proves Why the Group’s Activism Should Be in an Art Museum "Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot's Russia" runs at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal through March 10. By Barry Schwabsky Dec 21, 2023 10:05 am
Features Brice Marden Was a Painter of Rare Power The artist died in August at the age of 84. By Barry Schwabsky Nov 22, 2023 1:12 pm
Reviews “Manet/Degas” Displays A Standoff Between Two Pinnacles of Painting Laying bare the famous contretemps among two Impressionists, this exhibition asks viewers to compare and contrast. By Barry Schwabsky Oct 6, 2023 12:20 pm
Features Francoise Gilot Was More Than Picasso’s Muse—She Lived Life on Her Own Terms The artist and author died this past summer at the age of 101. By Barry Schwabsky Aug 18, 2023 3:05 pm
Features Somaya Critchlow’s Provocative Portraits of Nude Black Women Test Perceptions of Female Sexuality Somaya Critchlow's paintings are part of the new wave of figurative painting that has swept the art world over the last few years. By Barry Schwabsky Jul 27, 2023 10:00 am
Features Painter Leon Polk Smith Turned to Abstraction to Explore Notions of Identity and Race Leon Polk Smith grew up between cultures—settler and Indigenous—and considered himself to belong to both, or perhaps to neither. By Barry Schwabsky Jul 17, 2023 2:41 pm
Features Illuminations AMONG THE MOST significant artworks that have come into my life have been a chair, a trash can, a child’s dress. When I look at them as art, I tend to think of them as sculpture. Why do I (sometimes… By Barry Schwabsky Jan 7, 2012 4:48 pm
WWD Remembering Iris Apfel: Former Met Curator Harold Koda Talks Style Influence, Bartering and Originality