The Whitney Museum in New York houses one of the world's foremost collections of modern and contemporary American art.
As a musical category blues is hard to pin down, and this show makes the job harder, which seems to be its point. It’s saying: Blues isn’t a thing; it’s a set of feelings, a state of mind, maybe a state of grace.
— Holland Cotter of The New York Times on Blues for Smoke, on view through April 28.
The New York Times reviews Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective.
“Art, Ancestry, and Africa: Letting it All Bleed”: Ben Ratliff of The New York Times on BLEED, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran’s Biennial residency, which took place May 9-13, 2012.
Photograph of Kara Walker performing as Karaoke Walkrrr by Yana Paskova for The New York Times
