I spoke with curator Okwui Enwezor about his ambitious, devastating, revelatory survey at the ICP exploring how South African photography evolved from a document into a blunt instrument

In the United States, the art made in Spain’s Latin American colonies used to be considered artistically minor and politically incorrect. Now, as intellectual trends coincide with demographic realities, it’s on the cutting edge of art history—and the wish lists of top museums 

The controversy over the removal of a four-minute David Wojnarowicz video from the “Hide/Seek” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery had observers wondering whether the culture wars were back—and whether anything could be done to stop them.

At the National Museum of American Indian, the storytelling power of warrior chiefs

Why did eight jurors in Cincinnati trial decide that the Mapplethorpe photographs they considered "gross and lewd" are not obscene? "We felt that we had no choice, one juror told Robin. "We learned that art doesn't have to be pretty.”

Robin interviewed Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Alisa LaGamma on her new exhibition exploring the ways Kongo artworks responded (sometimes subversively) to political and religious changes.

From a provocative upcoming Metropolitan Museum show to adoption-ready “purr-formers,” the art world is exploring the shock of the mew.

An exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art searched for the Jewish roots of Rembrandt’s Jesus and revisited the Dutch master’s misunderstood relationship with Judaism

Venerable Conceptual artist withdraws from 'Radical Presence' at Grey Art Gallery, asserting it marginalizes African American artists.

A show at David Zwirner explored links between Ad Reinhardt's identity as abstract painter and as cartoonist, satirist, crusader, explicator, and slide-show maker.

The artist who notoriously said “what you see is what you see” is revealed as a master of double entendres that interconnect with visual puns and literary wormholes in his survey at the Whitney Museum.

Dogon, Flavin, Outkast, Dave Chappelle, the Incredible Hulk, and more coexist in Robert Pruitt's identity-expanding drawings of women at the Studio Museum.

Drawings at the Whitney reveal the step-by-step process that Edward Hopper used to create his iconic painting of a New York diner at night.

The spectacular, panoramic, pasted-paper mural that Saul Steinberg created for the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair is reassembled for the first time at the Ludwig Museum.

Before “Black Lives Matter” and I Can’t Breathe,” there was “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday.” I reported on the show featuring objects from Russian revolutionary posters to NAACP protest banners to work by contemporary artist-provocateurs like Dread Scott. Published in the Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9, 2015.

Using the Drawing Center’s gallery space, a tricked-out Xbox Kinect, and the exaggerated rhythmic stylings of expert dancers and musicians, Rashaad Newsome created a template for sculptures like no one’s ever seen. Published in ARTnews, March 2014.

Delicious dish on chocolate artworks by Janine Antoni, Dieter Roth, and more.

Talking to Melissa Chiu and Fereshteh Daftari about “Iran Modern,” a groundbreaking show at Asia Society. Published in ARTnews, February 2013.

On its 150th birthday, the Yale School of Art maintains its standing and mystique as incubator and launchpad for innovators and thought leaders, honoring its legacy by continually evolving with the times.

Outdated images of Indians abound in museums and the art market. As the Native American community fights to transcend those stereotypes, museum policy, scholarship, and Indian art itself are changing radically. Published in ARTnews, February 1992