BLAKE GOPNIK on art

Guy Minnebach, the Sherlock Holmes of Warhol vinyl, has made yet another new discovery: A 1958 cover…

Okay, so I admit that posting the cover of a 1,200-page law book might not seem an obvious fit for a…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is a couple of views from the solo show by Pat Oleszko, at the Sculpture Center in…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is a detail from Jeff Koons’s “Three Graces,” a huge sculpture finished in 2022…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is a view onto the light table at the heart of “Mammoth,” Nick Cave’s show that…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is “Elevage de Poussière (Dust Breeding),” a 1964 print of a photo that Man Ray…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is “Cheesehead,” by Lucas Blalock , from his lovely Bureau Gallery twofer with…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is a frame from Andy Warhol’s newly discovered Screen Test of Dennis Hopper. It’s…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is “Physical Optics,” painted in 1975 by the late Alfred Jensen, and now in his…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is “Glass Tears,” a 1933 image from the fabulous Man Ray show at the Metropolitan…

THE (UN-)DAILY PIC is a view of the current solo show by Ezra Johnson at Freight + Volume gallery in…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC is a still from Ragnar Kjartansson’s new video called “Sunday Without Love,” on…

THE (UN)DAILY PIC: Of course there’s a Caravaggio in “In Caravaggio’s Light,” the show of the…

THE (UN-)DAILY PIC: This image of David with the head of Goliath, painted by the Neapolitan artist…

The (un-)Daily Pic: Is a view of some of the pigment-covered stones that helped Anish Kapoor to his…

The (un-)Daily Pic: Some of you (i.e., my parents, siblings, and maybe my six best friends) may have…

It’s my pal Andy’s birthday, today … but it’s also the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, as…

Here are two objects — but maybe one work? — from the great show of Susan Meiselas’s first real…

Two untitled works by Robert Rauschenberg, from 1953 or thereabouts, seen in the just-closed survey…

Another thought on Ben Shahn that didn’t fit into my New York Times review of his Jewish Museum…

My image is Ben Shahn’s “Contemporary American Sculpture,“ from 1940 and now hanging in his landmark…

Happy to see my review of Dawoud Bey’s great show at Sean Kelly Gallery getting nice play in the New…

THE FRIDAY PIC is an installation shot from “Amerika,” the wonderful new projection by Javier Téllez…

THE FRIDAY PIC is a photo by Stephen Shore titled “Kingston, New York, November 8, 2020, …

THE FRIDAY PIC is a little-known drawing by Andy Warhol, probably from early in 1962 or late 1961….

THE FRIDAY PIC is a frame from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.” I got my latest…

THE FRIDAY PIC shows Charles Ray’s piece “Everyone takes off their pants at least once a day,” from…

THE FRIDAY PIC (admittedly a day late) is a tremendous 1946 photomontage by Lotte Jacobi — one of…

THE FRIDAY PIC is a pair of small bronzes by Richmond Barthé: Feral Benga (1935) and Stevedore…

THE FRIDAY PIC is Mavis Pusey’s Within Manhattan, from 1977, now in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.

THE FRIDAY PIC is “Untitled (Make-up),” a 20" x 24" Ektacolor photo, dated 1982–84, from the show…

THE FRIDAY PIC is an untitled nude from the 1960s by Ray Francis, whose solo show I just wrote about…

On this 36th anniversary of Andy Warhol’s passing, at 58, I thought it right to post this poignant…

THE FRIDAY PIC is a 1980s rendering of New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, in the news again as…

THE FRIDAY PIC is a 1905 image by Henri Matisse, drawn when he was at the port of Collioure, in the…

THE FRIDAY PIC is a still from Ed Atkins’s “Pianowork 2,” a 16-minute video projection from 2023…