BLAKE GOPNIK on art

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…