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Mario Naves

Mario Naves teaches at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College.

Articles

Exhibition note (Art) , November 2009, 46
On "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction" at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , September 2009, 45
On The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibition notice (Art) , April 2009, 46
On “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view through May 11, 2009.

Exhibition notice (Art) , March 2009, 46
On “The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002” at the Morgan Library, New York, January 23, 2009–May 3, 2009.

Exhibition notice (Art) , February 2009, 49
On "Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition notice (Art) , January 2009, 48
On "Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton" at The New Museum, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , December 2008, 50
On "George Tooker: A Retrospective" at The National Academy, New York.

The Schiele moment (Features) , December 2005, 33
On Egon Schiele at Neue Galerie.

Suprematism at the New! Improved! Guggenheim (Art) , July 2003
Mario Naves alights on Kazimir Malevich, post-Barney.

Exhibition note (Art) , May 2003, 48
On “Titian” at the National Gallery, London.

Exhibition note (Art) , December 2002, 62
On Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art, at The Frick Collection.

Exhibition note (Art) , November 2002, 52
On Stuart Davis at the Morgan Library.

Joan Mitchell (Art) , July 2002
The summer of 2002 in New York belongs to Joan Mitchell. A report on this American Abstract Expressionist's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Exhibition note (Art) , May 2002, 53
On “H. C. Westerman” at the Hirshorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

The various Alex Katz (Features) , December 2001, 47

Exhibition note (Art) , February 2001, 50
Mario Naves on “The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland,” at the Frick Collection, New York.

Exhibition notes (Art) , January 2000, 48
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Summer in the city's museums (Art) , September 1999, 49

Exhibition note (Art) , June 1999, 49
On The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Exhibition note (Art) , June 1999, 50
On To Conserve a Legacy, at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Exhibition note (Art) , June 1999, 51
On Hans Hofmann, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A Spring roundup (Art) , May 1999, 56
Reviews of Ronald Bladen: Selected Works at P.S. 1, New York, Willard Boepple: The Sense of Things at the New York Studio School, Anne Peretz at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries & Stephen Westfall at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.

Five painters (Art) , February 1999, 49
Reviews of Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn at the Jewish Museum in New York & recent exhibitions of Jacob Lawrence, Lester Johnson, Brice Marden & Nell Blaine

Duchamp & Cornell (Art) , January 1999, 48
On Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp in resonance, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Van Gogh in Washington (Art) , December 1998, 54
On Van Gogh's Van Goghs, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Mark Rothko at the Whitney (Art) , November 1998, 52
On the retrospective of the artist's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Exhibition notes (Art) , October 1998, 55
On Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916): Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Exhibition notes (Art) , October 1998, 56
On Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

On a modest scale (Art) , September 1998, 42
Reviews of Judith Rothschild: An Artist's Search at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Norman Lewis (1909-1979) at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York & Aleksandr Rodchenko at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Soutine at the Jewish Museum (Art) , June 1998, 50
On An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum, New York

An ongoing viability (Art) , May 1998, 40
On recent exhibitions by Chuck Close & other painters

Robert Delaunay at the Guggenheim (Art) , April 1998, 53
On Visions of Paris: Robert Delaunay's Series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Levelheaded mysticism: Arthur Dove at the Whitney (Art) , March 1998, 50

Talking at cross purposes: Piet Mondrian & Ad Reinhardt (Art) , February 1998, 45
On Mondrian & Reinhardt: Influence & Affinity at PaceWildenstein, New York

Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney (Art) , January 1998, 39

Persevering in paint: Steve Wheeler & Thomas Nozkowski (Art) , December 1997, 42

A world without distinctions: Rauschenberg at the Guggenheim (Art) , November 1997, 47

Masterpieces & mishmash: "Objects of Desire" at MOMA (Art) , September 1997, 46
On the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Promising signs (Art) , June 1997, 48
On recent exhibitions by Oscar Bluemner, Richard Stankiewicz & others

A daughter of Dada: Hannah Höch at MOMA (Art) , May 1997, 51

William de Kooning late paintings (Art) , April 1997, 38
On the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Romare Bearden at the Whitney (Art) , March 1997, 57

Richard Lindner: a New Yorker in Washington (Art) , January 1997, 47
On the exhibition of the artist's work at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington

No fuss or muss: Ellsworth Kelly in the rotunda (Art) , December 1996, 49
On the retrospective of the artist's work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York

Later visions: “Giorgio de Chirico & America,” (Art) , November 1996, 42
On the exhibition at the Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York

Is there Meret beyond the teacup? (Art) , September 1996, 110
On Meret Oppenheim at the Guggenheim Museum, New York

Glackens, Sloan & friends: the Ashcan artists' New York (Art) , June 1996, 48
At the New-York Historical Society

Between Paris & the shtetl: Marc Chagall at the Jewish Museum (Art) , May 1996, 48

Pus & politics: Kienholz at the Whitney (Art) , April 1996, 44

Paris as haven: 'Explorations in the City of Light' (Art) , March 1996, 43

Christopher Wilmarth (Art) , February 1996, 49

The pleasure trade: Howard Hodgkins at the Met () , January 1996, 49
On “Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1975–1995” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The native & the new (Art) , October 1995, 44
On “Affinities and Influences: Native American Art and American Modernism”, on view at the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey.

Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica (Art) , September 1995, 48
“Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica” opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on July 13, 1995, and remains on view through November 5.

Small wonder; the forgotten art of Giuseppe de Nittis (Features) , June 1995, 47
On “Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Italian Painting from the Gaetano Marzotto Collection” opened at the National Academy of Design, New York, on April 20, 1995, and remains on view through June 11.




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