Howard Halle

Ed Ruscha. Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half. 1964. Oil on canvas, 65 × 121 1/2” (165.1 × 308.6 cm). Private Collection. © 2023 Edward Ruscha. Photo Evie Marie Bishop, courtesy of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Ed Ruscha's Poetry of the American Experience

Judging by its nicknames (Tinseltown, La-La, City of Angels) Los Angeles nestles in the collective…

Installation view, Luc Tuymans: The Barn, David Zwirner, New York, May 11—July 21, 2023
Truth and Fiction Collide In Luc Tuymans Show at David Zwirner
In Luc Tuymans’s 17th show at David Zwirner gallery in New York, an exhibition of new and recent large-scale paintings that draw on photography, the artist explores the intersection of memory and…
Bob Thompson, An Allegory, 1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Thomas Bellinger 72.137
Bob Thompson's Timeless Strokes: Navigating Identity and Tradition in Art

During the postwar era, movements were still a thing, and midcentury New York was the place where they were being minted. It mattered which program you were getting with, and in…

Installation view, Sarah Sze: Timelapse, Things Caused to Happen (Oculus), 2023, March 31—September 10, 2023, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 
Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Guggenheim

A while back, …

Untitled, 2009. The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Blake and Courtney Johnson, Los Angeles, CA, 2021.111. Photography by Janny Chiu. © George Condo, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
In George Condo’s Mind at the Morgan Library
With, “Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo,” The Morgan Library offers a modest, but impactful, survey of the artist’s works on paper dating as far back as the mid-1970s.
Wangechi Mutu,The End of carrying All, 2015 (still). 3-channel animated video, color, sound, 10:45 min.
Wangechi Mutu’s Magically Intertwined World

Thematically and stylistically, Wangechi Mutu’s art is a bubbling stew of ingredients that don’t always cohere. Part Afro-Futurism, part cyber-punk, and part…

Installation view, Nick Cave: Forothermore, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 18, 2022–April 10, 2023.
Nick Cave's Forothermore

If your tastes in art run toward the intricately detailed, you’ll find a lot to like in the Guggenheim’s retrospective of …

Theaster Gates, Black Madonna, 2017. Bronze and tar, 58 x 26 x 21 in. 
Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces

While summarizing a career as varied and complex as …

Meret Oppenheim. Object (Objet). 1936. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon. Cup 4 3/8″ (10.9 cm) in diameter; saucer 9 3/8″ (23.7 cm) in diameter; spoon 8″ (20.2 cm) long, overall height 2 7/8″ (7.3 cm).
Inside Meret Oppenheim’s Whimsical and Witty MoMA Exhibition
It’s a recent development in art history to include women in numbers that, if not entirely commensurate with their place in society, are certainly far greater than previously.
Alex Katz, Blue Umbrella 2, 1972.
Alex Katz Makes Painting Look Easy at the Guggenheim
At 95 years old, Alex Katz certainly makes painting look easy. The 140 or so pieces comprising this Guggenheim survey of Katz’s nearly eight-decade career fill the museum’s rotunda effortlessly.
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm).
Edward Hopper's Life and Work in New York City

New York City has often served as the canvas on which American dreams are painted…

Installation view of New York: 1962-1964 at the Jewish Museum, NY. July 22, 2022-January 8, 2023.
“New York: 1962-1964” Captures More than a Time and Place
“New York: 1962-1964” is a celebration of the institution hosting it. The Jewish Museum has been a venerable fixture in New York’s cultural firmament for what seems like forever, but six decades ago…
"Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott," 2022. New Museum, New York. (L-R) See Colescott's We Await Thee, (1964), Nubian Queen (1966), and Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1968).
Colescott Retrospective “Art and Race Matters” is a Must-See
Fresh off its survey of Faith Ringgold, the New Museum presents a retrospective of another veteran African American painter whose aesthetic DNA courses through subsequent generations of black artists…
Installation view of Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from July 16, 2022 – January 2, 2023.
Barbara Kruger Zwirner and MoMA Shows Speak to Past and Present

Sightings of Barbara Kruger’s work in New York City have been somewhat scarce since her last exhibition in 2018 at Mary Boone Gallery (which permanently closed…

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1946-1947. Oil on canvas. 26 x 44 in. (66 x 111.8 cm). Tate Modern, London.
Louise Bourgeois' Early Paintings at The Met
Linda Nochlin caused a stir when she published, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" in 1971. Turning the conventional wisdom of the title on its head, she clarifies that there have…