Smart idea from Martin Müller The Art Newspaper re museum overcrowding: don’t build extensions; extend the hours (maybe w pricing that goes down at least crowded times?) wld probly also attract more locals (who shld always get in FREE!)

MY FRIDAY PIC is Mavis Pusey's 'Within Manhattan,' from 1977, now in the Whitney Biennial.
More than anything else in it, the almost-sort-of-maybe-not abstractions by Pusey feel as though they had something to say about art, and the world, at the moment she was painting.

Another tremor in NYC. I’m under our steel dining table. Thank God for Jean Nouvel.

MY FRIDAY PIC is “Untitled (Make-up),” dated 1982–84, from“Richard Prince: Early Photography, 1977–87,” at Gagosian gallery in New York. I noticed that, like so many works in the show, this one looked out at me as I looked at it. Much more at BlakeGopnik.com.

MY FRIDAY PIC at BlakeGopnik.com is an untitled nude from the 1960s by Ray Francis, whose solo show I just wrote about in New York Times Arts : nytimes.com/.../ray-franci…...
My Pic revisits what that nude has in common with Ansel Adams's 'Moonrise' — and what it doesn't.

My latest piece in The New York Times — always a treat to find images I didnt know.

Andy Warhol died #OnThisDay in 1987. 'The problem is that you can’t really use the Diaries to get final answers to your questions, because you can never tell the precise extent to which they are true.' Blake Gopnik on the best Andy Warhol books. fivebooks.com/best-books/and…

On this 36th anniversary of Andy Warhol's passing, at 58, I thought it right to post this poignant photo by Peter Bellamy, which catches #warhol taking one of his very last limo rides
“I believe in death after death,” he said. Maybe that's why he filled his one life so fully.

Celebrating the coming demise of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, as announced in New York Times Arts ? Read my defense -- my celebration -- of the great treasure that is its current Brutalist version: brooklynrail.org/2021/02/specia…

My Friday Pic is a deliriously hamfisted drawing Matisse made in Collioure in 1905. Such drawings are the true gems of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's current Fauvism show, even though we're supposed to concentrate on its colors. More at BlakeGopnik.com

Last day to see Ed Atkins's fascinating videos Gladstone Gallery -- wrote about it for the New York Times, and here's what I posted as my Friday Pic: BlakeGopnik.com

In today's New York Times Arts I've got a little review of the current Matthew Marks Luigi Ghirri show. The feedback loop between modernist painting and photography was pretty incredible. nytimes.com/2023/12/01/art…

Basada en años de investigación y entrevistas, esta biografía traza el recorrido del artista desde sus orígenes como hijo de inmigrantes de Europa del Este hasta su revolucionario papel en el mundo del arte.

«Warhol», de Blake Gopnik 👉 bit.ly/48fjx6e

MY FRIDAY PIC is Nicole Eisenman's “Untitled (Billy Clubs),” from 'The History of Hand Knitting,' the two-woman show she shares with Rosemarie Trockel at Leo Koenig's gallery uptown in New York.

I reviewed the show in today's New York Times: nytimes.com/2023/12/01/art…

A must go, tonight at McNally Jackson: The brilliant Berkeley U. philosopher Alva Noe, talking about his great new book on art, “The Entanglement,” with painter Alexi Worth, one of the smartest art-thinkers in NYC. Noe has PROFOUNDLY shaped my thinking. mcnallyjackson.com/event/alva-noe…

Hailed as 'one of the most revelatory exhibitions to hit New York in years,' our not-to-be-missed final installation at #FrickMadison is on view. Read The New York Times's recent review of 'Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini' below. nyti.ms/47yNkqs

Glad to have a tough-minded reader like alain servais

In today's New York Times Arts, I've got a piece on the The Frick Collection pairing of a Bellini and a Giorgione ... that reveal the Big Bang birth of our modern concept of art. And as my Friday Pic at BlakeGopnik.com, I've talked about the Bellini as the spark that lit the fuse.

One of the stories I’m most proud of having written!

And as a scientist, my sister is always totally objective in her judgments!