Art Writer Robin Cembalest
Throughout her career, Robin has covered the people, places, and trends shaping the art world. Following is a non-chronological sampling from Robin’s hundreds of publications.
‘Change the Board and Get Rid of the Director’
An award-winning investigation into the Hispanic Society of America that resulted in real change.
Things Fall Apartheid
Robin 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.
Plains Indian Artists, Drawing From Tradition
At the National Museum of the American Indian, the storytelling power of warrior chiefs.
How Kongo Art Became a Call to Action
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.
Assuming the Position: The Art of Gustav Metzger
The hermetic artist opens a provocative show at New York’s New Museum.
Fresh Prints: MoMA Washes Pollock's Hands
Using art history, chemistry, and detective work, conservators at the Museum of Modern Art uncover intriguing details in three classic paintings.
Rembrandt's 'Jewish' Jesus
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.
Jackson's Other Actions: Pollock's Sculptures Resurface
Carvings, castings, and other sculptural objects created by Jackson Pollock are turning up in New York galleries—raising intriguing questions about how they relate to his paintings.
Frank Stella's Titles Let You See Inside His Brain
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.
Robert Pruitt reinvents the African American portrait
Dogon, Flavin, Outkast, Dave Chappelle, the Incredible Hulk, and more coexist in Robert Pruitt's identity-expanding drawings of women at the Studio Museum.
How Edward Hopper Storyboarded ‘Nighthawks’
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.
America, the Great Colossal Collage: Saul Steinberg's Forgotten Masterpiece
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.
Brave New World
The first thing to understand about “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World,” the cluster of exhibitions opening concurrently at El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Queens Museum of Art in June, is that these aren’t shows of Caribbean art. They’re shows of art about the Caribbean.
MoMA Makes a Facebook for Abstractionists
A collaboration between MoMA curators and the Columbia Business School depicts early modernism as a vast social network. It's the latest in a long line of charts showing that no ism is an island
Voguing Meets Drawing, via Rashaad Newsome
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.
The Other Modernism: Rediscovering Iran’s Avant-Garde
Talking to Melissa Chiu and Fereshteh Daftari about “Iran Modern,” a groundbreaking show at Asia Society.
Resurrecting Chagall’s Jewish Jesus
Marc Chagall’s Crucifixions are in a startling Jewish Museum show that overturns popular notions of his work.
Connecting Jack the Dripper and Jack the Doodler
Pollock collection show at MoMA upends curatorial policy by uniting major paintings with prints and drawings.
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