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.
Reshaping the Art Museum
Confronted with urgent demographic realities, art-museum directors are drawing on game theory, interactive technology, and a host of other new strategies to help people feel welcome and engaged.
Museums Open Up to Power of Wiki
MoMA now hosts monthly edit-a-thons to help improve the quality of Wikipedia pages.
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.
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.
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
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Destructing Chocolate Head
Delicious dish on chocolate artworks by Janine Antoni, Dieter Roth, and more.
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.
Connecting Jack the Dripper and Jack the Doodler
Pollock collection show at MoMA upends curatorial policy by uniting major paintings with prints and drawings.
Who Was Jack the Dripper?
Hans Namuth’s iconic photos of Pollock painting were deeply influential—and widely misinterpreted.
The Ghost in the Installation
Kirk Varnedoe talks about his MoMA reinstallation, where Picasso is less prominent and Duchamp is the “recurrent, haunting ghost.”
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