Michael Auping News Today

As a major exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the US artist reflects on how beauty is “a given” in art—and how, after nearly 60 years, he is still pursuing “the problems of painting”

Richard Serra speaks with Michael Auping about the importance of site-specificity and artistic intention.

Susan Rothenberg talks with Michael Auping about her studio on 112 Greene street.

What triggered this piece were the mice. We had a big influx of field mice that summer, in the house and in the studio. They were everywhere and impossible to get rid of. They were so plentiful even the cat was getting bored with them.

As I think of the successes and failures of artists’ legacies, I’ve learned different stories tell different life’s circumstances, depending on luck and persistent efforts on the behalf of those who are dedicating their lives to perpetually keeping the artists’ works alive and contextually relevant in the former, while in the latter what requires of the artists’ caretakers, be it members of their families, friends or colleagues there my lack of clarity of intentions or s...

“The film is trying to is investigate his meaning and his artwork, who he is and asking, ‘How do we break the code of the artwork?’”

Breaking the Code, the award-winning documentary film about acclaimed mixed-media artist Vernon Fisher of Fort Worth, will be screened Saturday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

This strait-laced, work-focused retrospective affirms Philip Guston’s place as one of the 20th century’s finest painters

Fisher left abstraction behind to become a pioneer in combining text and visuals in his work. He worked out of the same studio in Fort Worth for more than 40 years.

Rail critic Suzanne Hudson examines the effects of time and place on two new exhibitions highlighting artists of the Bay Area.