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May 15, 2020
Magazine
Kyle Chayka
The Minimized Life
The legacy of Donald Judd in a time of quarantine
October 21, 2019
Rumaan Alam
The New MoMA Is More of a Good Thing
The Museum of Modern Art has used an expansive renovation to both reintroduce and celebrate itself.
July 16, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Norman Mailer's Secret Hobby Was Trying to Draw Like Picasso
Writing was difficult for the author; drawing was joyful
June 13, 2014
Jed Perl
The Art World Has Stopped Distinguishing Between Greatness and Fraudulence
And it's costing us
January 13, 2014
Jed Perl
MoMA's Faux-Populist Expansion Makes it Look Like a Department Store
This is how you ruin a cultural institution
January 10, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is Why We Go to Modern Art Museums
September 6, 2013
Jed Perl
The MoMa Does a Show About 'Sound Art.' It's Not Music.
April 26, 2013
Jed Perl
The Sanitizing of a Junk-Art Genius
Claes Oldenburg gets an exhibit—and gets boring
March 13, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
MoMA Has Mistaken Video Games for Art
The museum is putting 'Pac-Man' alongside Picasso. That misses the point.
December 2, 1996
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Jed Perl
Flag Burning
Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.
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