Reviews How Sam Gilliam Turned Painting into Sculpture An exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) surveys Gilliam's little-known stitched textiles. By Barry Schwabsky Aug 1, 2025 5:00 am
Features The Boom and Bust of Figurative Painting How politics and the market conspired to make and undo a major trend. By Barry Schwabsky Jul 22, 2025 5:00 am
Features Paige Beeber’s Dizzying, Layered Abstractions Hers is painting that always wants to keep the materiality of painting visible. By Barry Schwabsky Nov 5, 2024 5:00 am
Reviews Svetlana Alpers’s New Book Asks: Is Art History? A new anthology collects essays from decades of a storied career. By Barry Schwabsky Sep 18, 2024 7:00 am
Features Joan Snyder’s Painterly Abstractions Are Neither Coy Nor Evasive The New York–based artist has been plying her patchwork style since the early 1970s. By Barry Schwabsky Jul 17, 2024 9:56 am
Reviews Pussy Riot Retrospective Proves Why the Group’s Activism Should Be in an Art Museum "Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot's Russia" runs at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal through March 10. By Barry Schwabsky Dec 21, 2023 10:05 am
Features Brice Marden Was a Painter of Rare Power The artist died in August at the age of 84. By Barry Schwabsky Nov 22, 2023 1:12 pm
Reviews “Manet/Degas” Displays A Standoff Between Two Pinnacles of Painting Laying bare the famous contretemps among two Impressionists, this exhibition asks viewers to compare and contrast. By Barry Schwabsky Oct 6, 2023 12:20 pm
Features Francoise Gilot Was More Than Picasso’s Muse—She Lived Life on Her Own Terms The artist and author died this past summer at the age of 101. By Barry Schwabsky Aug 18, 2023 3:05 pm
Features Somaya Critchlow’s Provocative Portraits of Nude Black Women Test Perceptions of Female Sexuality Somaya Critchlow's paintings are part of the new wave of figurative painting that has swept the art world over the last few years. By Barry Schwabsky Jul 27, 2023 10:00 am
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