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Blake Gopnik

Head north and follow the signs of contemporary times

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)