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.

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The Ultimate Map of Art-World Feuds

William Powhida and Jade Townsend are back with a satirical drawing of a lurid battleground where artists, posers, critics, dragons, Internet trolls, and Modernist ghosts fight for their lives.

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A new Barbie is the ‘Jewish Mona Lisa’

A new doll is inspired by Adele Bloch-Bauer, Klimt’s famous Austrian Jewish model. It’s one of a new series of collector’s edition dolls dedicated to great works of art.

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It's Manet Mania Weekend at Yale!

On the 150th birthday of Manet’s two most scandalous paintings, a show and a conference track the afterlives of the nudes, the dudes, the maid, and the cat.

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A ‘Child of Daumier’ Confronts the 1990s

Robin’s profile of Jack Levine, the American Social Realist painter who was an acerbic critic of politicians, the art world and just about every other establishment, republished as a memorial on the occasion of his passing in 2010.

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