Blake Gopnik

The term "contemporary art" no longer refers to the art of the moment. It refers to a certain kind of art, born in the late 1960s, that's got a particular look and feel and way of doing things attached to it -- every bit as much as "Renaissance" or "baroque" art do. Watercolors of boats at anchor,...
 
Art review: A walk in these rarefied 'Woods' climbs far above pedestrian path (By Blake Gopnik, November 18, 2009)
 
ART REVIEW: 'Horn' merits a double take (By Blake Gopnik, November 13, 2009)
 
No frost, no fizz. Just 'real beer' in the glass. (By Blake Gopnik, November 11, 2009)
 
In art we lust (By Blake Gopnik, November 8, 2009)
 
Q& A: David Adamson: Technology helps, but digital photography is still an art (By Blake Gopnik, November 7, 2009)
 
Avoiding mechanical overload (By Blake Gopnik, November 5, 2009)
 
Alma Thomas painting nixed in East Wing (By Blake Gopnik, November 5, 2009)
 
'GRAFT': At the National Gallery, art that goes out on a limb (By Blake Gopnik, November 1, 2009)
 
'FALNAMA: THE BOOK OF OMENS': Middle Eastern pages look toward heaven -- and the future (By Blake Gopnik, October 25, 2009)
 
'THE ROBERT AND JANE MEYERHOFF COLLECTION: SELECTED WORKS': The sweet smell of success, and the scent of an iconoclast (By Blake Gopnik, October 25, 2009)
 
Native intelligence (By Blake Gopnik, October 20, 2009)
 
'Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens': At the Phillips, Black and White but Never Plain (By Blake Gopnik, October 18, 2009)
 
Exhibits: To Sate Our Tastes, National Gallery's Shows Spruce Up the 'House' Special (By Blake Gopnik, October 15, 2009)
 
Georgetown's Colorful Genius (By Blake Gopnik, October 11, 2009)
 
1600 Penn And Ink: Obamas' Choice of Works On Loan to White House Reflects a Discerning Eye (Post, October 7, 2009)
 
Losing the Fortress Mentality to Meet the Masses (By Blake Gopnik, October 4, 2009)
 
Nicholas Roerich's Different Strokes (By Blake Gopnik, October 4, 2009)
 
Open to Everything? (By Blake Gopnik, September 27, 2009)
 
She's Old-School in a New Age (By Blake Gopnik, September 24, 2009)
 
Avant-garde cuisine as contemporary art? A new book paints such a picture, and an art critic tucks in. (By Blake Gopnik, September 23, 2009)
 
Palate vs. Palette (By Blake Gopnik, September 23, 2009)
 
Proof That Sargent Evolved From the Sea (By Blake Gopnik, September 16, 2009)
 
'Falnama: The Book of Omens': Pages With Tales Worth Foretelling (By Blake Gopnik, September 13, 2009)
 
John Gerrard and Brian Jungen: On Second Thought, Are They Still Worth a Rave? (By Blake Gopnik, September 13, 2009)
 
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