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Articles by Robert Slifkin
Unraveling a Christmas music mystery
A FEW YEARS AGO, while flipping through the new arrivals crate at Nice Price Records in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I was visiting family over the holidays, I became transfixed by what I heard playing on the store’s stereo system.
Robert Slifkin on Alan Sonfist
A pioneer of the Land art movement, Alan Sonfist has never received the degree of critical attention awarded some of his contemporaries, such as Michael Heizer and Richard Long. This despite the fact that Sonfist’s Time Landscape, a nine-hundred-square-foot plot of land fenced in at the corner of West Houston Street and LaGuardia Place, has been staking its claim as the largest and most important example of Land art in New York City since its creation in 1978.
Robert Slifkin on Philip Guston and white privilege
Robert Slifkin on Philip Guston and white privilege Philip Guston, Sheriff, 1970, oil on canvas, 66 × 80". © The Estate of Philip Guston. WHAT DOES THE WORK OF PHILIP GUSTON have to tell us about racism in the United States? And, for that matter, who is the us the work is speaking to?
January/February 2021
Five contributors consider Guston’s oeuvre Dan Nadel on Philip Guston’s Jewishness Sarah K. Rich on Philip Guston’s Untitled, 1964 Robert Slifkin on Philip Guston and white privilege Chris Ofili on Philip Guston’s City Limits, 1969 Step and Screw: Stock Photo Exchange, 2020 Jasmine Sanders on the Black Romantic Suzanne Hudson on the art of Deborah Remington David Velasco Hari Nef on the art of Nash Glynn Barry Schwabsky
The Burlington Magazine
(3rd November 2019–1st March) by ROBERT SLIFKIN Few subjects in the history of art seem as universal and venerable as war. From ancient monuments commemorating military victories and celebrating soldiers to modern condemnations of its brutality (with Picasso’s Guernica still serving as the decisive archetype), war has provided the sort of epic subject-matter and grand scale that has conventionally implied historical significance and major statement.
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