“I think I care about beauty, but I don’t go for it,” the artist Susan Rothenberg says wryly in an episode of Art21’s “Extended Play” series filmed back in 2010. “I hope it sometimes might be in there ...

When Susan Rothenberg died in 2020 at the age of 75, the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl noted that the groundbreaking artist had yet to receive a major museum retrospective. Perhaps such an ...

Acquavella Galleries is presenting Soft Reins, a group exhibition exploring the enduring significance of the horse as a powerful symbol and artistic muse, highlighting how the animal has inspired art, ...

For a relatively small number of paintings made almost entirely between 1974 and 1977, Susan Rothenberg’s horses have achieved a nearly mythic status, occupying a place of honor in recent art history.

Susan Rothenberg died on May 18 at the age of seventy-five, leaving behind an artistic legacy we’re only beginning to understand. You could say she killed a stifling minimalism by running it over with ...

What’s one to make of the early Susan Rothenberg paintings? Take Trumpeter from 1984-85, now on exhibit at Vermont’s Hall Art Foundation, founded in 2007 by Andrew and Christine Hall. This and other ...

Ever since the advent of photography more than 150 years ago, painting has been getting periodic attacks of insecurity. It frantically gives itself mass-media face-lifts, enlists in political ...

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Modernism was riddled by searches for origins, but it was also marked by nearfatal fixations with real or imagined ends. Pace Hegel, T. J. Clark has suggested that "every modernism has to have its own ...

So where were they? An Inside Art column published in The New York Times a week before the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach dangled the prospect of a more inclusive fair this year, one that would ...

Born in 1945, Susan Rothenberg is an American painter and printmaker. From an early age she received art training, taking classes at what is now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, before enrolling in the ...