A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of...
Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it and hardship and...
The last time money left the art world intrepid types maxed out their credit...
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations that...
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of...
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous...
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years...
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes...
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that...
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies appropriation breathed...
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery...
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth...
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo...
Outside museums in noisy public squares people look at people. Inside...
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows....
My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our...
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide...
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The...
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on...
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That...
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates...
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist in love with art smitten with art...
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more...
Yes 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a...
