Kenneth Baker
‘Athletic prowess and great ambition’: major Joan Mitchell survey begins its three-stop tour
Exhibition on the Abstract Expressionist includes little-known paintings and explores the influence of poetry on her work
Calder-Picasso connections are thin in San Francisco show
The De Young’s current exhibition, comparing the work of the two Modern artists, is not a perfect coupling
New biography highlights how Philip Guston risked his art-world standing and livelihood
The book by Robert Storr delves into the American painter's dealings with Klansmen and how he wanted “to make paintings you couldn’t count money in front of”
Donald Judd’s work measured in time and place
Three publications explore the artist’s life through his writings, interviews and places of work
Will Covid-19 anxiety colour our perceptions of MoMA’s Donald Judd show?
The artist’s requirement that his works be viewed through a relaxed prism may be too much for a post-pandemic world
Christian Marclay communes with Snapchat in a barrage of sounds and images at Lacma
Visitors undergo a chain of experiences generated by engineers’ algorithms
Ellsworth Kelly: The art world’s quiet American
As Ellsworth Kelly comes to London, we look at the exhibition at the Guggenheim and at MoCA
Jasper Johns’s latest work is unmistakably his own, transmitting traces of the past
From the very first painting in his show at Matthew Marks Gallery, visitors will find familiar themes
Complex, ingenious, emotional: the concluding volumes of Jasper Johns’s catalogues raisonnés
Two further volumes comprehensively cover the artist's drawings and monotypes
A dive into Bruce Nauman’s confounding, zigzagging career
Nauman's early artistic quandaries seem to have manifested larger cultural anxieties that have never really abated
Settling into Donald Judd’s demanding furniture
A show at SFMoMA reminds a critic of his past experience with Judd and his creations
Three to See: Basel
From a gesamtkunstwerk designed to awaken the senses to a five-decade survey of Bruce Nauman
The best—and worst—of Magritte is on show at SFMoMA
The “philosophical painter” poses age-old questions about what the senses apprehend, what awareness and reflection contribute, and how we know
Susan Meiselas: “I am directed by where I want to go, where I want to stay, where I want to go back to”
The Magnum photographer and subject of a travelling retrospective talks about her work, from documenting conflict zones to portraits of Carnival strippers
Bruce Nauman keeps his edge, 50 years on
Retrospective at Basel’s Schaulager ranges from artist’s earliest works to a new 3D video installation
Does Basquiat's work still burn with youthful energy or has it become a fossil of 1980s New York?
Kenneth Baker on the US artist's survey at the Barbican, which travels to Germany next month
Richard Wentworth and Kenneth Baker on Jasper Johns's retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts
“So many tropes going on in his work, it would make a lovely laundry list,” says the British artist of his US counterpart
How to read a Twombly
New book asks if late US artist’s work should be read literally or literarily
All the things we cannot know: Kenneth Baker on Sophie Calle in San Francisco
The artist makes a virtue out of mystery
How Matisse helped Diebenkorn calm his ‘rage at human nature’
The American artist learned much from his French predecessor, but his sense of disquiet was his own
James Rosenquist: made famous by his anti-Vietnam War work, the Pop artist never went out of fashion
Rosenquist put the mass consciousness of fear and cultural contradiction in a room, outflanking all who entered it
The champion of the new: Kenneth Baker on the Dwan Gallery at Lacma
An exhibition examining Virginia Dwan's Los Angeles and New York galleries reminds our critic of times past
A translator from east to west: Kenneth Baker on John McLaughlin in Los Angeles
A survey of the painter’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reveals his affinities for Asian cultures
A uniquely powerful force: Kenneth Baker on Bruce Conner at SFMoMA
The critic examines a bracing and brilliant survey of the artist's work
The seriousness of a child at play: Kenneth Baker on Joel Shapiro at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Shapiro says he only wants to 'stick stuff in space,' which belies the many important questions his work raises
A parody of data mining: Kenneth Baker on Christian Marclay at Fraenkel Gallery
Six new works by the artist capture the refuse of daily life
Shedding light on Rothko’s light: Abstract Expressionism at the National Gallery of Art
The biggest show of the artist’s work for over twenty years derails the view that his highly charged colour-field paintings were a reflection of his moods
Calder hangs on at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
The master of mobiles and his relation to Parisian Modernism reassessed
Requiem for photojournalism: New publications and exhibitions
“Today the photo magazines have all folded or been turned into vehicles for lifestyles and personality portraits”