Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official portraitist — with a champagne toast over lush arrangements of daffodils and yellow ranunculus. At the Museum of Modern Art, another recent blowout event honored an …
This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Camp’s probing videos, Mungo Thomson’s recirculating images and John Zorn’s drawings and objects. Midtown Camp Through July 20. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street; 212-708-9400, moma.org. The grandest work in the show, “Bombay Tilts Down” (2022), is a multi-screen video …
If you passed through the unlocked gate and rambling garden into Ruth Asawa’s Noe Valley home between 1966 and 2000, the 5-foot-tall Japanese American artist would likely have persuaded you to lie down on the kitchen table or living room floor and let her cover your face in plaster. Ethereal …
In “Familiar Touch,” Kathleen Chalfant plays a woman whose inner life alternately burns bright and suddenly dims. Her character, Ruth, has an inviting smile and natural physical grace, though at times she falters midstep. A former cook and a cookbook author now in her 80s, she lives alone in a …
“I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality, one of “infinite diversity in infinite combinations.” It was a vision that propelled and buoyed him through a nearly six-decade career. “This is why …
On Aug. 18, 1959, George Tice was a Navy photographer’s mate third class on the aircraft carrier Wasp when an explosion in a hangar bay rocked the ship in the Atlantic Ocean, about 250 miles from Norfolk, Va. He rushed to the flight deck, camera in hand, and took pictures …
To Save and Project, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual film preservation showcase, will close on Thursday night with a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s “Shoulder Arms.” Starring Chaplin as an American soldier during World War I, this comedy, which runs around 40 minutes, has delighted viewers since its premiere in …
We are looking at a man who stands on his own, arms hanging by his side, chest puffed out, face untroubled. He is an ideal, a model; he ought to be a hero. But just above his knees his legs give out, thawing into a formless muck — the result, …
Yoshio Taniguchi, a Japanese architect who gained international fame in 1997 when he was chosen to renovate and expand New York’s Museum of Modern Art, a project that cost $850 million (including an accompanying endowment) and was completed in 2004, died on Dec. 16. He was 87. The cause was …