Blake Gopnik
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Articles by Blake Gopnik
Unraveling The Alba Madonna (October 5, 2008)
Simple Pleasures Adrift Without Monumental Meaning (September 30, 2008)
Dion Wins Lucelia Prize With Edgy Pseudo-Exhibits (September 26, 2008)
Who's Who, Redefined (September 15, 2008)
Retail Imitates Art. Is This A Sincere Form Of Flattery? (September 5, 2008)
A 'Starving Artist' Whose Half-Glass Is Full (August 31, 2008)
Art in the Big Apple, a Bit Farther From the Madding Crowd (August 28, 2008)
Lighting a Fuse to Forge a New Way Forward (August 24, 2008)
The Ikea Idea: What to Make Of These Modern Times (August 17, 2008)
Here, the Seat Grabs You (August 10, 2008)
Rooms With a View Of Addiction's Toll (July 20, 2008)
A Site for Thinking Outside the Box (July 6, 2008)
The Art Craftsman (June 22, 2008)
Take Time to Rewind at the Hirshhorn's 'Realisms' (June 21, 2008)
Not a Care in the World: Nature for the Untroubled (June 15, 2008)
Survey Says: Six Is the Magic Number (June 8, 2008)
Color & Meaning Knit Together in An Abstract Yarn (June 7, 2008)
Points of Departure (June 1, 2008)
He's Not Just Cloning Around (May 19, 2008)
Drawn In by Details (May 18, 2008)
Robert Rauschenberg, Alchemist of the Mundane (May 14, 2008)
Statue Whittles Away at King's Legacy (May 10, 2008)
Eliasson: Nature as A Special-Effects Show (May 5, 2008)
Toying With Catastrophe (May 5, 2008)
Correcting a Colorblind View of the Treasures of Antiquity (May 4, 2008)
Kelly Named Chief Curator At National Gallery (May 2, 2008)
Africa's Worldly 'Treasures,' Torn From the Wild (April 27, 2008)
Double Vision (April 13, 2008)
Bursting The Bauble (March 30, 2008)
Moving Beyond Beauty (March 22, 2008)
Shinique Smith's Street Art, Taking the High Road (March 16, 2008)
How Two Women Painted Themselves Out of the Corner (March 9, 2008)
Indelible Impressions (March 7, 2008)
Drifting Through Fields of Color (March 2, 2008)
Moving Pictures (February 15, 2008)
Revolutionary Views (February 12, 2008)
Flattering the Art, or Just the Collector? (February 12, 2008)
Eager to Get Busy at the Phillips (February 10, 2008)
Look-Alike Works Make for an Uncommonly Provocative Show (January 26, 2008)
Matisse Chips Away at His Tranquillity (January 20, 2008)
ART (December 30, 2007)
The Overripe Fruit of John Alexander's Labors (December 27, 2007)
Is Cubism's Revolution Behind Us? (December 23, 2007)
The Perfect Show for a World Up to Its Eyes in Trash (December 9, 2007)
Buried Treasure (December 8, 2007)
'Beowulf' Movie Magic Can't Conjure The Poem's Bare-Bones Enchantment (November 22, 2007)
Edward Hopper and the Rising Tide of War (November 18, 2007)
In New York, 286 Saint Fabiolas = One Epiphany (November 11, 2007)
Doing a Double Take at Richard Prince's Rephotography (October 21, 2007)
Vive la Similarité (October 14, 2007)
Art Museum Expansion: A Constructive Trend? (October 7, 2007)
Turner, in Full Light (October 1, 2007)
The Fire Works Show (October 1, 2007)
Back to Color School: Four Lessons on Morris Louis (September 30, 2007)
Earl Cunningham and the Wild Pomegranate Yonder (September 23, 2007)
The Viewfinder (September 15, 2007)
Hirshhorn Director Olga Viso Will Step Down Next Year (September 12, 2007)
An Anatomy of Consumption (September 7, 2007)
A High Regard For the Earth (September 2, 2007)
Honk if You See High Art (August 19, 2007)
The Search for Serra Firma (July 22, 2007)
In His Hands, the Spirit Lives (July 15, 2007)
A 'Silent Night' That Speaks of Deafness (July 14, 2007)
Radical Public Art That Comes Close To Vanishing (July 8, 2007)
Welcome To Babel (July 8, 2007)
Reverting to Form: Aesthetics Push Meaning Aside (July 8, 2007)
Maybe It Was Created When Eisenhower Was President, But It's Still 'Contemporary' (July 8, 2007)
An Irish Artist's Time-Twisting Storytelling (June 16, 2007)
The Blurred Borders Of a State of Crisis (June 15, 2007)
Lines and Angles on the Meltdown of a System (June 14, 2007)
A Woman Scorned Turns Rejection Into an Art Form (June 13, 2007)
At the Cyprus Pavilion, Fruit With an Unexpected Bite (June 12, 2007)
Lighting the Way (June 11, 2007)
On the Cutting (and Jagged) Edge (May 20, 2007)
'Private Treasures,' Singular Triumph (May 13, 2007)
When Venice Looked Eastward (May 13, 2007)
Tillmans's Touch (May 13, 2007)
To Hirshhorn Filmgoers, One-Man Act Is All on Pitch (April 24, 2007)
What Is Feminist Art? (April 22, 2007)
Lesson in Perspective (March 26, 2007)
The Rise And Call of Modernism (March 18, 2007)
A Breath of Fresh Art (March 12, 2007)
Profit and Gloss (March 11, 2007)
Muybridge's Canter Through Central America (March 1, 2007)
It's African, But Imbued With Our Idea of Art (February 25, 2007)
O Pioneers: Italian Women Artists, Wolfgang Tillmans, '07 Documenta (February 11, 2007)
A Bold Break With Its Past (February 11, 2007)
Setting Life in Motion (February 4, 2007)
Jasper Johns's True Aim (January 28, 2007)
A Perfect 10 (January 13, 2007)
Museum 'Closets' That Have Plenty In Store for Visitors (December 31, 2006)
Stretching the Canvas (December 25, 2006)
Lucas's Oblique 'View Toward Paris' (December 17, 2006)
Fast-Order Classic (December 12, 2006)
Drawing Us Into His Art (December 10, 2006)
Morris Louis: A Painter Of a Different Stripe (November 12, 2006)
The Telling Nature of Photography (November 5, 2006)
Unambiguously Uncertain (October 29, 2006)
A New Way Of Seeing Modern Art In America (October 22, 2006)
Illustrating That Looks Aren't Everything (October 17, 2006)
Breathing Room Amid Chelsea's Mega-Galleries (October 17, 2006)
The Master Cubist, Cubed (October 16, 2006)
Artists Who Dissect 'Starsky & Hutch' (October 8, 2006)
New Leipzig School Provides a Study in Hype (October 3, 2006)
David Schnell's Perspective: Made to Order (October 3, 2006)
Changing the Landscape (October 1, 2006)
A Reframed Corcoran (September 12, 2006)
Modern Art Immersion: Jasper Johns, Société Anonyme and Joseph Cornell (September 10, 2006)
A Quiet Man's Telling Choices (August 13, 2006)
Biennial On a Diet: Can You Get Your Fill? (July 30, 2006)
Video Artist Isn't Just Spinning His Wheels (July 30, 2006)
Rousseau, Lord of the Jungle (July 16, 2006)
Powerful Acts of Portrayal (July 9, 2006)
What's There . . . and What's Not (June 25, 2006)
William H. Johnson's Taste of Europe (June 25, 2006)
'American ABC': Children in Our Image (June 25, 2006)
Portraiture's Harsh Lessons (June 25, 2006)
Seeking an American Essence in Art (June 25, 2006)
Veering Off in Venice (June 18, 2006)
Droog Hammers Out A New Design Niche (June 11, 2006)
Bach, Falling Upon Deaf Ears (May 28, 2006)
Drawing Strength From Its Collection (May 21, 2006)
