The notion of crisis in its various manifestations—war, illness, addiction—appears throughout this collection of Schjeldahl’s final assignments for the New Yorker after his lung cancer diagnosis in 2019. Schjeldahl’s writing serves as a model for criticism in some ways and falls short in others.
Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern