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Roberta Smith

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Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Robert Ryman, one of the most important American artists to emerge after World War II, a minimalist who achieved a startling non-minimalist variety in his paintings even though they were mostly white and usually square, died Friday at his home in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He was 88.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
9 Oct 2021
NEW YORK — Jamaican visionary John Dunkley (1891-1947) is the latest artist to decimate the distinctions between self-taught and trained, outsider and insider and folk and not folk. The first large museum survey in the United States devoted to the work of this gifted autodidact is now at the American Folk Art Museum, after originating at the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2017, with Diana Nawi, now an independent curator, heading the organizing team.
Kenya The New York Times world
9 Oct 2021
Nicola L, a French pop artist who was best known for wry feminist sculpture of female and male forms that often function as furniture, died Dec. 31 in Los Angeles. She is thought to have been in her mid-80s.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
12 May 2021
NEW YORK — When it comes to postwar art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art rarely lets you breathe easy for long. Just when it hits a good phase, it suddenly changes course and more than likely shoots itself in the foot. Things were really looking up at the Met Breuer, with its superbly installed recent exhibition of Jack Whitten’s sculpture. Then the Met suddenly pulled out of the last three years of its eight-year lease there. It cut short a project that was producing results, giving the Met’s...
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
24 May 2019
Similarly, only a few museums can do justice to such a long span of creativity. Prominent among them is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose “‘The Tale of Genji’: A Japanese Classic Illuminated,” is glorious, as sumptuous and sprawling as the book itself, full of rare loans from Japanese institutions.
A literary masterpiece, and the art it inspired
Kenya The New York Times world
5 May 2019
Ben Heller, an influential New York art collector and dealer best known for his early embrace of abstract expressionism and the sale of one of its masterworks to an Australian museum, which caused an international furor, died April 24 in Sharon, Connecticut. He was 93.
Ben Heller, Powerhouse Collector of Abstract Art, Dies at 93
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
4 Apr 2019
(Last Chance): NEW YORK — Artists are picky people. The objects they live with — furniture, artifacts, ceramics, works by other artists — are usually carefully chosen, and they look it.
Art is where the home is
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
8 Mar 2019
The confabs play to varied tastes and pocketbooks while ranging in quality from blue-chip to less than no-chip — a measure of market, not aesthetic value.
Armory Fair Week: Your Survival Guide
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
1 Mar 2019
Yet in its sheer variety and vitality, this exhibition is optimistic, and generous in spirit.
Jasper Johns stays divinely busy