Linda Yablonsky

New York

Journalist and Art Critic at Freelance

NY Insider Correspondent at The Art Newspaper

Roving art journalist. Author of The Story of Junk: A Novel. NY Insider correspondent for The Art Newspaper

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Articles

Robert Rauschenberg's centenary celebrations are starting with old friends

1 month 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.
Denzil Forrester finds freedom in music

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.
Steve McQueen delves into family history at Dia Chelsea

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?
After a harrowing personal trauma, Thomas Houseago unveils 'psychotic' sculptures in New York

Sep 19, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

One of the bigger jokes of Donald Trump’s seriously unfunny, hopefully single, presidency was his repeated promise to build “a beautiful wall” along the southwestern US border and make Mexico pay for it. This boast motivated the artist Thomas Houseago to build his own beautiful wall for the southeastern border of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new campus—and pay for it himself.
Iria Leino, Fashion Icon Turned Forgotten Artist, Finally Gets Her Due

Sep 5, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Linda Yablonsky

Rare is the fashion model whose career has legs as long as her own. For every Carmen Dell’Orefice, Naomi Campbell, or Kate Moss, there are thousands who disappear—none, perhaps, more effectively than Iria Leino. Along with Bettina and Dovima, the Finnish American beauty was one of the first models to go by a single name; then, in 1964, she fled fashion forever. Now Leino is having a comeback, not as a model of brief renown in Europe, but as the artist she was in New York.
New York exhibition places brutality of Leon Golub's paintings in dialogue with contemporary artists

Sep 2, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

Leon Golub was no tastemaker—unlike Rashid Johnson, who sort of is. Both came to New York out of Chicago, but disparate generations aside—Golub died at 82 in 2004 and Johnson is 46—it would be hard to find two artists whose sensibilities are farther apart. Johnson, a multidisciplinary artist who made an impact right out of the gate, runs the elements of Black middle-class domesticity through the windmills of your mind.
D’Athènes à l’île d’Hydra : les artistes new-yorkais à l’honneur en Grèce cet été

Jun 30, 2024 | artnewspaper.fr | Linda Yablonsky

La Grèce est en plein essor. Elle est ouverte. Elle est stable. Et elle témoigne de preuves d’amour à nombre d’artistes new-yorkais. Dans l’ancien Odéon d’Hérode Atticus, juste en dessous du Parthénon à Athènes, une Marina Abramovic très royale est entrée sur scène sous des applaudissements nourris.
From Athens to the island of Hydra: a Greek odyssey beckons for New York artists

Jun 27, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

Greece is flourishing. It’s open. It’s stable. And it’s giving all kinds of artists from New York a whole lot of love. At the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus, just below the breathtaking Acropolis, a very regal Marina Abramovic came onstage to huge applause for just being there. To introduce Anonhi and the Johnsons, she favourably compared the trans singer to Maria Callas, who once performed in the same amphitheater for the same Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
From Athens to the island of Hydra: Greek odyssey beckons New York artists

Jun 26, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

Greece is flourishing. It’s open. It’s stable. And it’s giving all kinds of artists from New York a whole lot of love. At the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus, just below the breathtaking Acropolis, a very regal Marina Abramovic came onstage to huge applause for just being there. To introduce Anonhi and the Johnsons, she favourably compared the trans singer to Maria Callas, who once performed in the same amphitheater for the same Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
Greek odyssey beckons a wearied New York art world

Jun 26, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Linda Yablonsky

Greece is flourishing. It’s open. It’s stable. And it’s giving all kinds of artists from New York a whole lot of love. At the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus, just below the breathtaking Acropolis, a very regal Marina Abramovic came onstage to huge applause for just being there. To introduce Anonhi and the Johnsons, she favourably compared the trans singer to Maria Callas, who once performed in the same amphitheater for the same Athens and Epidaurus Festival.