Yayoi Kusama at the Japanese Pavilion in Venice, 1993. During her final decades, Yayoi Kusama, who died last week at 97, was most well-known for her Infinity Rooms and the lines of fans waiting to take selfies inside. These spectacles turned a radical art... See more
“I wanted to cause trouble,” Mary Heilmann once said. And she did. Not with manifestos or work that announced itself as political but by challenging the ridiculously male idea of what serious artists and serious painting were supposed to look like. Heilma... See more
There was always something wonderfully unfashionable about Hockney even when he was fashionable. The death of David Hockney feels as though a certain kind of looking has left the world. Not just a painter, draftsman, photographer, printmaker, stage design... See more
The art world is in a lather over the spring auction frenzy. But I only feel grief, like something is dying. Above: Rothko’s Brown and Blacks in Reds . Almost nothing that happens at the sort of high-profile art auctions that have been taking place this w... See more
On May 1, 1993, the 1980s officially ended. One of the most famous artists in the world, Anselm Kiefer, installed a funeral pyre of nearly 300 of his works at Marian Goodman on West 57th Street, one of the more prestigious galleries at the time. Afterward... See more
