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Blake Gopnik is a former contributing critic to The Daily Beast and writes on art and design for a wide range of publications. He previously spent a decade as chief art critic of The Washington Post and before that was an arts editor and critic in Canada. He has a doctorate in art history from Oxford University, and has written on aesthetic topics ranging from Facebook to gastronomy.

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Abstraction Colored by Race

The Color Black

Sam Gilliam works with form and hue, but we always see history in it.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 31, 2014

Our Kids' Purgatory

Waiting in Vain

Greg Miller catches school children as they wait for their bus to come in.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 30, 2014

Computer-Art Fossils

Form Feed

In 1969, Frederick Hammersley was already playing with CPUs and printers.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 29, 2014

Greater Than The Mona Lisa

Best in Show
Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 28, 2014

A Martian's Eye View of Modern Art

Surrealisticism

Tomoo Gokita paints worlds no one has seen.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 27, 2014

Iron Man XVII

Richard Serra repeats the right stuff, at last.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 24, 2014

Guys Gone Tame

Cheesecake

Jeanette May's photos show men at ease in their bachelor pads.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 23, 2014

Liberace Would Have Balked

Tchotchkes

At the Met, jewels by JAR may be tacky junk, but they tell us about ourselves.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 22, 2014

Beauty in Bondage

Queer Culture

Robert Mapplethorpe used old forms for forbidden content.

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 20, 2014

Masterpiece Smackdown: Warhol's 'Empire' vs. Marclay's 'Clock'

Two endurance movies go head-to-head

Blake Gopnik | Published Jan 17, 2014

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