American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966" looks closely at Celmins' early work, which is deeply engaged with the Pop Art scene of 1960s Los Angeles. The authors argu[...]

One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor. Publish[...]

In 1981 Jean-Michel Basquiat made the momentous transition from the street to the studio. He had attracted considerable attention with his "Times Square Show" the summer before, and reinforced that nascent notoriety with a wall of phenomenal works in Diego Cortez's "New York/New Wave" at P.S. 1, whi[...]