Max Lakin

1 month ago | artforum.com | Max Lakin

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Jan 9, 2025 | nytimes.com | Max Lakin

Since November, "Architect's Handkerchief" (1999), Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's 12-foot-tall abstract hankie sprouting from a breast pocket has waved from the street-level plaza of Lever House, at 390 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The sculpture's baroque white folds evoke the creamy marble of a Bernini, voluptuous even as its reinforced plastic would be useless to dab an eye. It offers different comfort, a visual rest stop from the rigid geometry unfolding around it.

Nov 20, 2024 | culturedmag.com | Max Lakin

Mika Horibuchi Made Her Name Repainting the Work of Another Artist: Her Grandmother The Chicago-based artist joins a long lineage of artists who've found creative fulfillment in facsimiles. Photography by Drake Sweeney. “When I was younger, I learned to draw by copying images—essentially without even realizing it,” Mika Horibuchi tells me from her Chicago studio. “That’s a pretty universal starting point.

Nov 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Max Lakin

Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on recognition and rejection.

Oct 31, 2024 | artforum.com | Max Lakin

Of all this city’s innumerable oddities, the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection is surely up there. Housed in a small room within the NYPL’s main branch on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, it comprises more than a million unbound printed images—vernacular photographs, magazine clippings, yellowed postcards, diagrams freed from textbooks—sorted into twelve thousand subjects (“Accidents,” “Punishments”), which are more hints than meticulous taxonomies.