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.
Let My People Go—Back to Poland
"And Europe Will Be Stunned," Yael Bartana's celebrated film trilogy introducing Poland's Jewish Renaissance Movement, arrived at Petzel Gallery for its first New York showing—just as a new museum on Jewish history opens in Poland.
Fashion’s Equivalent of the Blank Canvas
The little black dress, subject of a show curated by Vogue's André Leon Talley, is uniform, sculpture, template--and, for some men, an aspiration
Jac Leirner: ‘Feminizing the Material Stuff of Minimalism’
The Brazilian artist meticulously assembles bank notes, airline passes, cellophane wrapping, and other humble materials to create her striking sculptures.
Imperfect Moment
Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center and director Dennis Barrie are indicted on charges of obscenity over the show ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment’
Fighting Back
The ACLU and People For the American Way launch new branches devoted to the culture wars
‘Shock’ en el arte norteamericano’
The U.S. art community reflects on the attacks of September 11, 2001
A Satirist with a Loaded Brush
Art styles came and went, but painterly leftist Jack Levine had the last laugh.
Modern-day Fridas
A prescient roundup of then-emerging Latinx artists who are now well-known names
The Man Who Flew Into Space
Soviet artist Ilya Kabakov has catapulted to fame in the West with installations that depict the peculiarities and absurdities of life in the USSR.
Claims Conflict
Tensions are rising between the restitution community and U.S. museums over the proper way to handle Holocaust art claims.
The We Decade
The people who make art, show it, and sell it are increasingly involved with issues and the role art can play in the real world.
A Climate Change in the Art World?
The art community is digging out, drying off, counting its losses, helping its neighbors–and starting to prepare for the hurricanes of the future.
Guggenheim Won’t Get Guernica
Madrid museum nixes Basque request to loan Picasso’s anti-war masterwork to the new Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Politics are involved.
Tempest in a Peephole
Why a Sol LeWitt piece was removed—and then restored—to a show in the National Museum of American Art.
The Torah in the Altarpiece
A new exhibition explores the overlapping worlds of Christian and Jewish art in medieval Spain.
Alexander the Great?
Actress Jane Alexander sworn in as head of the National Endowment for the Arts.
‘The Last of a Kind’
Painter Antoni Tàpies, descendant of Picasso and Miró, did not leave an heir apparent.
Tag
- 9/11
- 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
- Artsave
- Asia Society
- Association of Art Museum Directors
- Atelier Bow-Wow
- Awol Erizku
- Baku
- Balthus
- Barbie
- Ben Durham
- Ben Rubin
- Benny Andrews
- Beth Campbell
- Bolivia
- Brian Ferriso
- Brooklyn Museum
- Caribbean
- Carla Fernandez
- Carolee Schneemann
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Catalonia
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Chachapoyas
- Chon Noriega
- Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
- Cindy Sherman
- Cloisters
- Coco Fusco