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Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and critic. She was previously the curator of "American Vanguards," on view at the Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase and a faculty member at the New York Studio School. She is an art historian, curator, and critic, educated at the High School of Music and Art, Barnard College, and Columbia University. After living and working in Italy and Canada for some years, Ms. Wilkin returned to her native Manhattan in 1985. She lives near the Empire State Building wit…

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The prodigious Raphael

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By Karen Wilkin Verified, Charles Hill, Anatoly Grablevsky
| The New Criterion Verified
Raphael, The Cowper Madonna, 1504–05, Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The prodigious Raphael Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Over the past twenty years or so, two titans of the Renaissance have been illuminated by capacious, legendary exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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“Admiring Miró,” by Karen Wilkin

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By Karen Wilkin Verified, Anatoly Grablevsky, Robert Erickson
| The New Criterion Verified
Joan Miró, Still Life with Old Shoe, 1937, Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Admiring Miró Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Quite apart from anything else, the chronology makes it clear that an exhibition about Joan Miró (1893–1983) and twentieth-century American art is long overdue. That it has finally happened may have something to do with the November 2026 centenary of the first time Miró’s work was exhibited in this country.
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Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Penitent Mary Magdalene’: Contemplation in Rich Color

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By Karen Wilkin Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
The 17th-century painter’s depiction of the biblical figure, who has left behind her life of sin, is a work of entrancing details and pervading stillness. April 17, 2026 1:57 pm ET Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Penitent Mary Magdalene’ (1625-26). Kimbell Art Museum Women artists have received steadily increasing attention in recent years.
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