Robin Newman
Robin is an artist as well as an art writer and curator. He studied Fine Art and Humanities at CALARTS and received an MA in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby's Institute of Art. He also participated in the ICI Curatorial Intensive in New York City. He contributed to Dossier Journal and has written for Flash Art and Art Agenda, amongst others.
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Articles by Robin Newman
A history of the Wild West Side and the Whitney’s new public sculptureApr 25, 2021
Long before its abandoned train track was turned into a famous park (The High Line), the streets of New York’s Meatpacking District were lined with racks of raw meat, drug dealers and transexual prostitutes. …
David Wojnarowicz: Place and HistoryOct 9, 2018
David Wojnarowicz was first shown at the Whitney Museum in 1985 as a part of the museum’s Biennial which focused on avant-garde artists based in New York City’s East Village. Now, some 33 years later …
Painting On The Border: Philip Guston 1957-1967Jul 7, 2016
The new show Philip Guston: Painter 1957-1967, held at Hauser & Wirth in NYC, parallels the painter’s important retrospective held in 1966 at the Jewish Museum. A half century later the current show …
Brent Wadden Weaves Modernism in a Whole New WayMay 11, 2015
Brent Wadden’s solo show, currently on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York City, is first major U.S solo show as well as with the gallery. The self titled show features 8 …
The new Whitney Museum of American Art arrives at the shore of the Hudson River looking forwardApr 30, 2015
With the May 1st opening of their new ‘home’ the Whitney Museum of American Art looks to the future while symbolically returning to their roots. The new building on Gansevoort Street in New …
Experience Matters. Kazuo Shiraga and Satoru Hoshino at Dominique Lévy New YorkFeb 19, 2015
Gutai, which translates as “embodiment” or “concrete”, is most commonly understood in the West as the name of the avant-garde art group that was formed in 1954. The Dominique Lévy gallery in New York City …
Julia Heyward and Perry Hoberman’s 29 Space Time brings performance art into the futureNov 21, 2014
29 Space Time is a performance art piece that was recently performed at the art space Roulette in Brooklyn, NY. Performed and created by the multimedia artists Perry Hobber and Julia Heyward. A unique piece on …
Coco’s journey in Margaret Haines’ art filmOct 8, 2014
“The rings of Saturn start to look like one cosmic noose,” so proclaims Coco as she loops a nameplate necklace. Coco is the lead of Margaret V. Haines’ film Coco, which tells the story of …
Anxious Spaces: Instillation as CatalystJul 29, 2014
Anxious Spaces: Instillation as Catalyst presented six artists working in what Rosalind Krauss called “the expanding field” of sculpture, forging new modes and styles of sculpture. More precisely in the exhibition’s case instillation art, although …
Rituals of Rented Island at the Whitney Museum of American ArtDec 24, 2013
Rituals of Rented Island currently on view at The Whitney Museum is a groundbreaking reinvestigation of downtown New York art from 1970-1980. The exhibition returns to the beginnings of New York performance art in a …
James Turrell: A Retrospective, LACMA, Los AngelesAug 6, 2013
The renowned artist James Turrell, who masterfully works with light and space, is currently being acclaimed with a large retrospective. Due to the room size scale of much of his work the exhibit is taking …
Painting In Place, Los Angeles Nomadic DivisionJul 15, 2013
LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) is presenting Painting in Place, a group exhibition in downtown Los Angeles’s Farmers and Merchants Bank forging an unlikely gallery space. The exhibition, curated by LAND Director/Curator Shamim M. Momin, …
