Blake Gopnik

Picasso's drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition, National Gallery, Washington, D.C., Opens Jan. 29

Has Damien Hirst made the largest painting in the world? Let the debate begin. By Blake Gopnik in this week's Newsweek.

An exhibition at New York's Rubin Museum follows our comic heroes and villains to the top of the world.

The global economy's in a tailspin, but among the world's elite collectors, works are selling for record prices.

Marian Goodman, tiny and softspoken, is one of the world's most powerful dealers. Her fortunes come from caring more about showing art than selling it. Blake Gopnik on her path to success.

Three years into running the great Met Museum, Thomas Campbell proves he's not dumbing it down.

An exhibition at New York's Met reveals divine details, and the identity of premodern India's master painters.

For the price of a power boat, you can own a great work of art—and it's safer than the stock market.

Forget Campbell's Soup and Marilyn—the Warhol that matters is the freak who sold out to TV.

At a splashy show in Philadelphia, Zaha Hadid is exciting eyes and teasing minds.

German painter Gerhard Richter tackles the hardest subject: that which no longer exists.

A blockbuster new show explores the great painter's messy reality.

Lucian Freud, the grand old man of British art, caused a stir with his impressive portraiture.

One of the greatest rides ever, the Citroen DS doubles as a sculpture. By Blake Gopnik.

Are the collectors who spend thousands on conceptual works crazy—or on the cutting edge?

We're living in a great moment for art. NEWSWEEK critic Blake Gopnik chooses the creators who could be the next Leonardo, Rembrandt, or Picasso.

An old master teaches new tricks at this year's Venice Biennale—just what we need from art right now.

Everything you think you know about great portraits is wrong.

Forget Vermeer: For Centuries Metsu was the star. Can he shine again?

Artist Ai Weiwei pushed boundaries with his art. Now the chinese government is pushing back.

The French artist was an unquestioned genius. But try putting his gifts into words.

Glenn Ligon's art has wowed Obama and hangs in the White House. So why won't he talk about its primary subject?

The artist's new movie, about generations of suffering among Palestinian women, gives a history lesson that not everyone wants to hear.

What if Rembrandt made soup? Rirkrit Tiravanija challenges audiences by serving them dinner.

For most of us, most of the time, our encounters with works of art come closer to genuflection than contemplation. As we rush by the works in our museums, we're more like Catholics crossing themselves by the altar than art historians working toward tenure.

How a simple musical instrument inspired the Spanish artist to think out of the cubist box and create a symphony of work that would change art forever.

To visit "The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it seemed right to don peacockery. A black velvet jacket in an Oscar Wilde cut appeared a suitable option. I might as well not have bothered.

It could be that Apple's very latest, very greatest products might not be the last gasp of modernism, after all. They could be the first hints of a design so new, it barely exists.

Brooklyn artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy come off as the quintessential hipsters: he has 1970s shaggy hair, she wears mod-cool outfits. The McCoys' art, which gets shown around the world, is also very Brooklyn: ultra-low-tech videos and installations about movie culture, childhood fears, even the couple's first date—always packaged with a laugh and a wink.