Installation view, “Christopher Wool” at the Guggenheim (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The exhibition starts with Wool’s breakout paintings from the mid ’80s. It’s easy to imagine the ...

This week, to keep a date at Christie’s, a major painting skipped a major museum retrospective. That museum would be the Guggenheim, and the painting would be Christopher Wool’s “Apocalypse Now” (1988 ...

Christopher Wool is a contemporary American painter. In his paintings, Wool contrasts bold stenciled text or abstract brushwork with white backgrounds. In the stenciled works, words run together and ...