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.
Between a Cross and a Hard Place
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.
The Obscenity Trial: How They Voted to Acquit
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”
150 Years of the Yale School of Art
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.
Goodbye, Columbus?
As multiculturalism becomes a catchphrase of the '90s, art institutions are doing a lot of soul searching—about their audiences, their staffs, their exhibitions, and their perspective.
The Guggenheim’s High-Stakes Gamble
Thomas Krens' vision of the Guggenheim's international empire is so ambitious that
even he doesn't expect all o f his projects to come to fruition. The museum's critics are skeptical, calling it misguided. Its supporters say it is merely misunderstood
Native American Art: Pride and Prejudice
Outdated images of Indians abound in museums and the art market.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.
What’s in a Name?
Jimmie Durham, Native American identity, federal legislation, and a lot of controversy.
Capital Dilemma
It took five years to pass a law that paves the way for a possible National Museum of the American Latino. Now the real debate begins.
Lettuce in a Landfill
Mel Chin’s ecological artwork “Revival Field” finds a home at the Walker Art Center
Museums Open Up to Power of Wiki
MoMA now hosts monthly edit-a-thons to help improve the quality of Wikipedia pages.
101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week
The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative to bring women's voices to the online encyclopedia--as editors and as subjects
Adrian Piper Pulls Out of Black Performance-Art Show
Venerable Conceptual artist withdraws from 'Radical Presence' at Grey Art Gallery, asserting it marginalizes African American artists.
The Semi-Secret History of Modernism’s Best Comic Artist
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.
It’s Not Just a Museum, It’s a Think Tank
Art museums including the Guggenheim, MoMA, and the New Museum are recruiting experts from outside the art world to address problems in the real world.
Gender Bender
Where are the great men artists? The story of the famous cover of the ARTnews October 1980 issue.
Birds Do It, Bees Do It: Taking Animals' Art Skills Seriously
Move over, painting chimps. Today's art-making animals are cutting-edge creators who turn up everywhere from the National Zoo to MoMA.
From Black Power to Migrants’ Power
As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today.
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- AAMD
- ACLU
- Ad Reinhardt
- Adele Bloch Bauer
- Adrian Piper
- African art
- Agnes Denes
- Alan Sonfist
- Alfred Barr
- Alina Szapocznikow
- Alisa LaGamma
- An-My Lê
- André Leon Talley
- Andrés Sánchez Galque
- Ann Temkin
- Anne-Imelda Radice
- Antoni Tàpies
- Ariel Segal
- Arne Svenson
- Art Basel Miami Beach
- Art Spiegelman
- Arts Censorship Project
- Asia Society
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- Atelier Bow-Wow
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- Ben Rubin
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- Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
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