“I think I care about beauty, but I don’t go for it,” the artist Susan Rothenberg says wryly in an episode of Art21’s “Extended Play” series filmed back in 2010. “I hope it sometimes might be in there ...

Susan Rothenberg, “Untitled” (1974), acrylic and tempera on canvas, 36 x 45 inches (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Susan Rothenberg’s painting, “Untitled” (1974), couldn’t be more ...

Artist Susan Rothenberg, known for her fearless embrace of figurative painting during a reign of abstraction, has died at the age of 75. Her passing was confirmed by her gallery, Sperone Westwater in ...

Susan Rothenberg, "Foxes on a Hill" (1972), acrylic on canvas (© The Estate of Susan Rothenberg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; photo by Sarah Muehlbauer, courtesy Hauser & Wirth) The ...

For a relatively small number of paintings made almost entirely between 1974 and 1977, Susan Rothenberg’s horses have achieved a nearly mythic status, occupying a place of honor in recent art history.

Susan Rothenberg died on May 18 at the age of seventy-five, leaving behind an artistic legacy we’re only beginning to understand. You could say she killed a stifling minimalism by running it over with ...

Susan Rothenberg, whose use of figurative images in her paintings reinvigorated the art world in the 1970s and ’80s and made her one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of the past half ...

When Susan Rothenberg died in 2020 at the age of 75, the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl noted that the groundbreaking artist had yet to receive a major museum retrospective. Perhaps such an ...

Nearly impossible, it seems, not to start with the horses, even though they make no appearance in Susan Rothenberg's latest canvases. Indeed, it is telling how very thoroughly, since first ...

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In a 2005 Art21 documentary, Susan Rothenberg is filmed traversing the land surrounding the ranch she shares with her husband, Bruce Nauman, near Galisteo, New Mexico.