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Mario Naves

Mario Naves teaches at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College.

Articles

Exhibition note (Art) , May 2013, 56
On "The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913” at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ.

Exhibition note (Art) , April 2013, 51
On "Piero della Francesca in America” at The Frick Collection, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , March 2013, 40
On "Drawing Surrealism” at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

Regarding Warhol (Features) , December 2012, 39
On Pop art, Warhol's legacy, and a new show at the Met.

Exhibition note (Art) , November 2012, 50
On "Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy R. Lippard & the Emergence of Conceptual Art," which opened at the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth R. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on September 14, 2012 and remains on view until February 3, 2013.

Exhibition note (Art) , September 2012, 49
On "Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960” at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Exhibition notice (Art) , May 2012, 70
On "Whitney Biennial 2012” at The Whitney Museum of Art, New York.

Modernism's American musketeers (Art) , March 2012, 53
On "American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942" at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.

Exhibition note (Art) , January 2012, 63
On "Maurizio Cattelan: All" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Musuem, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , December 2011, 56
On "Degas & the Nude" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Exhibition note (Art) , November 2011, 49
On "Eva Hesse Spectres 1960" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Exhibition note (Art) , June 2011, 49
On "John Storrs, Machine-age Modernist" at the Grey Art Gallery, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , May 2011, 51
On "Glenn Ligon: America" at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , March 2011, 51
On "On Becoming An Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960” at the Noguchi Museum, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , January 2011, 52
On "John Baldessari: Pure Beauty” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , December 2010, 46
On Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736–1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism” at The Neue Gallerie, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , November 2010, 45
On "Deborah Kass: MORE Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times" at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , October 2010, 44
On "Julie Mehretu: Grey Area” at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , June 2010, 45
On “Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Exhibtion note (Art) , April 2010, 48
"William Kentridge: Five Themes" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , March 2010, 43
On "Tino Sehgal" at the Solomon R. Guggeinheim Museum, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , February 2010, 46
On "Gabriel Orozco" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , January 2010, 50
On "Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty" at The New Museum, New York.

Kandinsky's hocus-pocus (Features) , December 2009, 22
On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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.

Exhibition note (Art) , May 1995, 47
On Martin Puryear at the David McKee Gallery, New York.

Serious matter (Art) , April 1995, 35
On Tàpies at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York.

Ambiguous Baziotes (Art) , March 1995, 38
On William Baziotes: 32 Years Later at the Blum Helman Gallery, New York.

Graphic artist (Art) , February 1995, 43
On Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950–1961 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

A Swiss symbolist (Art) , January 1995, 42
On Ferdinand Hodler: Views & Visions at the National Academy of Design, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , December 1994, 47
On Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951–1993 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , November 1994, 44
On Mario Cavaglieri: The Glittering Years 1912–1922 at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , September 1994, 54
On Dalí: The Early Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.




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