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.
The Ghost in the Installation
Kirk Varnedoe talks about his MoMA reinstallation, where Picasso is less prominent and Duchamp is the “recurrent, haunting ghost.”
The Metropolitan Museum’s Global Revolutionary
How Nelson Rockefeller, the original Rockefeller Republican, effected radical change by championing "Primitive" art.
The Gentle Giants of Rockefeller Center
Provoking feelings of awe—and awww, Ugo Rondinone's modern megaliths are among the public artworks redefining the idea of the monumental
A Dealer With Ideas
With her Madrid gallery and her private collection, Helga de Alvear has introduced a wave of high-concept, new-media artists to Spain.
Salvador Dalí, 1904-89
The late Catalan artist, who cultivated a cultish fame, left a complicated legacy in Spain.
Spain: Learning to Absorb the Shock of the New
Big changes in the Spanish art world are the result of government policies and social transformation in the post-Franco era.
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
The Torah in the Altarpiece
A new exhibition explores the overlapping worlds of Christian and Jewish art in medieval Spain.
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.
Spain: ‘I Love Flamenco’
Spanish artists and institutions expand their horizons at home and abroad in the pre-1992 buildup.
A Satirist with a Loaded Brush
Art styles came and went, but painterly leftist Jack Levine had the last laugh.
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.
Zumaya and Pedraza: ‘The Real Spain’
Visiting the places in northern Spain where the well-known Basque artist Ignacio Zuloaga lived and worked.
Tempest in a Peephole
Why a Sol LeWitt piece was removed—and then restored—to a show in the National Museum of American Art.