Stories By Alix McKenna
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Art
A Case for Warhol’s Jews
January 22, 2024Since its in 1980, Critics have lambasted Warhol’s “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century”...
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Art
Sex in the Vienna Secession – Because Airplane Bathrooms are so Passé
January 21, 2024The Vienna Secession, which was designed to display works by Gustav Klimt and his contemporaries, recently...
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Art
Art Review: 2010, Whitney Biennial
January 20, 2024It is undeniable that the reduction, which was largely brought on by budget constraints, has created...
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Art & Design
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
January 10, 2024The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
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Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
January 6, 2024Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
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Art
Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
January 4, 2024So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John...
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Art
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
January 1, 2024The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...