Art Writer Robin Cembalest
Throughout her career, Robin has covered the people, places, and trends shaping the art world. Following is a non-chronological sampling from Robin’s hundreds of publications.
Havana’s Hidden Monuments
Cuba’s revolutionary Escuelas Nacionales de Arte are being threatened by the jungle.
The Restoration
The rebooted Yale Center for British Art reflects decades of work to honor the legacy and vision of the towering figures who created it while continuing its full identity as a university art museum, teaching and research center, and cultural resource in New Haven.
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Destructing Chocolate Head
Delicious dish on chocolate artworks by Janine Antoni, Dieter Roth, and more.
Tobias Schneebaum’s epic adventures
A film by Laurie G and David Shapiro spotlights the gay American Jewish anthropologist and artist who documented his travels in Papua New Guinea and Peru.
The Curator Vanishes: Period Room as Crime Scene
A disappearance, a discovery, and a mystery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, via Mark Dion
The Thing's the Plays: Public Theater's New Shakespeare Machine
Artist Ben Rubin remixes 37 works in a site-specific, L.E.D-lit, linguistic-supercollider sculpture (that’s also a chandelier).
The Mysteriously Tiny Drawings of an 18th-Century Artist, Born Without Hands or Feet
Using an implement he wielded with his stumps, Matthias Buchinger excelled in calligraphy, ornamentation, and micrography, the practice of making patterns with tiny letters. Ricky Jay’s book and a show at the Met explored the art and life of “The Little Man of Nuremberg.”
A Climate Change in the Art World?
The art community is digging out, drying off, counting its losses, helping its neighbors–and starting to prepare for the hurricanes of the future.