Just this year I got to learn more about color-field painting and its continued vitality from a book by Pat Lipsky, an artist. As a postscript, those days may soon be gone, but Shara Hughes and Dana Smith, two younger painters, are still gestural, abstract, and exhilarating. It becomes up to the viewer to take […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
To wrap up from last time, Ben Shahn has fallen out of favor regardless—and not just because art moved on to abstraction. Nor is it that he refused the past century. That sketch of existentialists approaches the stark, jumbled planes and predominant reddish blue of Analytic Cubism. It just happens to take until the 1950s […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
To pick up from last time, everything about Ben Shahn was serious, least of all The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. No sooner had he completed that series, with twenty-three paintings, but he began another, of an Irish American labor leader convicted of a fatal bombing. The first painting has entered the Whitney Museum and […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
From the tall classical columns, you know this is serious business. You know it, too, from the men in black. The three men stand somberly and rigidly, the shortest man in academic robes. The other two wear black suits with tall black hats. They hold lilies, proclaiming their innocence. Their faces reveal nothing, but something […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Brendan Fernandes does not need much in the way of company, but he has no trouble finding it. At heart, he is just showing off. He poses while striding, facing a stubborn rock and while reaching out. It makes him at once a performer, a photographer, and a sculptor. It gives him multiple way of […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
He could be writing about a work of art or art itself. “I don’t have any answers yet,” and how could he? “The questions are too big.” But no, Aidan Ryan is writing about his uncle and aunt, Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto, and their life in art, in I Am Here You Are Not […]| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Review by John Haber of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', a film directed by Peter Webber, with an essay on Jan Vermeer, Delft, his possible Catholicism, and a painter's world-view| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of Jan Vermeer's 'Milkmaid' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chadwicks at Winkleman gallery, with a memorial to Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Met| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of 'Masterpieces from the Dulwich Picture Gallery' at the Frick Collection, including 'Girl at a Window' by Rembrandt, and 'Rembrandt at Work: The Great Self-Portrait from Kenwood House' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art| www.haberarts.com
Vermeer's reality and a city's dreams: review by John Haber of Vermeer and the Delft School at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art| www.haberarts.com
Reviews by John Haber of galleries and museum shows by David Salle, Dosso Dossi, and Julio Sarmento| www.haberarts.com
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| www.haberarts.com
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Review by John Haber of the recent attribution of 'Young Woman Seated at the Virginals' to Jan Vermeer| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of 'Vermeer's Love Letters' at the Frick Collection and 'Mysteries of the Rectangle' by Siri Hustvedt| www.haberarts.com
Vermeer's silence and sensuality: review by John Haber of Jan Vermeer at Washington's National Gallery| www.haberarts.com
Jan Vermeer and the death of the symbol, from reviews by John Haber of New York City art galleries and museums| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of the Skylight Project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pieter Bruegel| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of 'Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis' at the Frick Collection, including 'The Goldfinch' by Carel Fabritius and 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Jan Vermeer| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of the expanded Frick Collection| www.haberarts.com
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Review by John Haber of 'A Billion Dollar Dream: The 1964 World's Fair' at the Queens Museum and 'Piroutte' in modern design at the Museum of Modern Art| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of Knobkerry designs at SculptureCenter and Virgil Abloh at the Brooklyn Museum, Product Photography in 'The Real Thing' and literary posters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of 'The Value of Good Design' and 'Broken Nature' at the Museum of Modern Art| www.haberarts.com
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Review by John Haber of 'Post-Analog Painting' at The Hole, Clare Grill at Zieher Smith and Horton, Kes Zapkus at William Holman, Iman Raad at Sargent's Daughters, and Robert Kushner at D. C. Moore| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of Richard Van Buren at Garth Greenan and abstract art in Tribeca, including Iva Gueorguieva at Derek Eller, Sarah Blaustein at Hesse Flatow, Robert Janitz at Canada, and Lena Henke at Bortolami| www.haberarts.com
Reviews by John Haber of New York City art galleries and museums| www.haberarts.com
Reviews by John Haber of New York City art galleries and museums| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of Robert Smithson at the Whitney Museum, with thoughts on 'Spiral Jetty,' Minimalism, earthworks, site-specific art, and outdoor sculpture brought indoors, and of 'Floating Island', the realization of an earthwork by Robert Smithson, in the Hudson River, in the East River, and near Hudson River Park, New York City, by Nancy Holt, Minetta Brook arts organization, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and James Cohan gallery| www.haberarts.com
Reviews by John Haber of Sol Lewitt at the Whitney Museum of American Art| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of abstraction and Pattern and Decoration by Valerie Jaudon at Von Lintel and D. C. Moore, Peter Young at MoMA PS1, and John McAllister at James Fuentes| www.haberarts.com
Review by John Haber of Frank Stella at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at Paul Kasmin| www.haberarts.com
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Reviews of New York City art galleries and museums, from the Renaissance and art history to modern and contemporary art| HaberArts: New York Art Reviews
Review by John Haber of abstract art by Romare Bearden at D. C. Moore and 'The Block' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art| www.haberarts.com