ROBERTA SMITH
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Matisse and Derain: the ‘Wild Beasts’ of Fauvism
The leaders of a short-lived but consequential art movement that flourished early in the 20th century take center stage at the Met Museum.
Flight of the Drones Lights Up Central Park
The Drift collaborative orchestrated a performance art piece with light-emitting drones that mimic swarming starlings or fish — but mostly slow-motion fireworks.
Henry Taylor’s ‘B Side’ Is Full of Grade-A Paintings
The artist brings an energy to painting that reverberates through his exuberant yet sobering survey at the Whitney Museum.
Doyle Layne’s Dazzling ‘Weed Pots’ at Kordansky Gallery
The ceramist Doyle Lane created a universe of colors and shapes with his ‘weed pots,’ 100 of which form his first solo show in New...
Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA
With 120 works on paper and eight paintings spanning more than four decades, this show proposes a new theory about the artist.
I Was Wrong About Cecily Brown
After panning an artist’s work 23 years ago, our veteran critic had a change of mind following three visits to “Death and the Maid” at...
Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible
The multimedia artist transforms the New Museum into a fabulous sphere of creatures where divisions of gender, race and species do not apply.
Lace, That Most Coveted Textile
Bard’s survey of European traditions finally reveals exactly what Vermeer’s ‘Lacemaker’ was up to.
Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress
His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks — some fresh from the studio — and celebrated spiral.
The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met
Before the Civil War, an enslaved artisan from South Carolina created storage vessels that transcend ceramic traditions.
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