Linda Yablonsky

3 weeks ago | artforum.com | Linda Yablonsky

WHAT BRAZEN SCAMP conceived the standing dinner? If we can trust Frieze New York to be a weathervane, this post-pandemic hedge against the formal repast is here to stay. Should we thank the galleries for saving us from resentful placement in the social Siberia of a seated dinner or slap them for depriving us of a square meal? Opportunities for each abounded in a week so feverish that it felt like the art-world equivalent of a sorority rush, albeit one with a noncompete clause.

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

Kulapat Yantrasast is really going places. Though he calls California home, the Bangkok-born architect has won commissions from so many museums in so many parts of the world that his primary drawing board has become the tray table of an airplane. Recently, he swept through New York from Riyadh and Paris before moving on to Tokyo, Manila and the city of his birth to monitor the progress of projects that include the Musée du Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |David D'Arcy |Linda Yablonsky |Roger Bevan

Robert Rauschenberg, the tirelessly experimental and collaborative American artist who died in 2008, would have turned 100 this year on 22 October. In honour of his centenary, the New York-based Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is spearheading a globe-spanning programme of exhibitions, publications, performances and more, beginning this spring and continuing well into 2026.

Nov 22, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

Denzil Forrester has weird timing. In 2016, less than a week before the election that gave Donald Trump his wretched first term in the White House, the Grenadian British artist made his US debut at White Columns. This year, the 67-year-old artist’s return to New York just two weeks before an even more crazy-making election created an element of foreboding.

Oct 28, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

Steve McQueen has a way of seeing through things. Human history, to name one. Cinema history, too. Both are full of blind spots. Take, for example, The Jazz Singer, the 1927 movie starring Al Jolson. As the first motion picture to have synchronised speech and sound, it became an instant classic. Yet, what catapulted it to lasting fame was Jolson’s performance—in blackface. McQueen could never get past it. Why did that have to be the first talkie?