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Autoren
Isaac Julien,
Ten Thousand Waves
, 2010, at the Bass Museum of Art
Photo courtesy Jonathan Franklin
SEA SPIRIT
Deborah Ripley
2. Dezember 2010
In 2004, 23 Chinese migrant workers walked out a mile into the North England Bay of Morecambe to pick cockle shells. Unfortunately, they didn’t know that the tide would turn and they would be stranded. All but one worker drowned.
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2010
Dezember
1. Dezember 2010
Brobdingnagian BIJOUX
Elisabeth Kley
Anselm Kiefer’s "Next Year in Jerusalem.&quo
November
30. November 2010
ASK AN ART CRITIC - November III 2010
Jerry Saltz
On MoMA’s women, auction madness and George W. Bush’s official portrait.
19. November 2010
PERVERSE BEAUTY
David Coggins
An interview with John Currin
19. November 2010
ASK AN ART CRITIC (2) - November 2010
Jerry Saltz
On conflict of interest, being shy and the New Museum.
18. November 2010
MoMA AT ITS VERY BEST
Charlie Finch
Paula Hayes, Pop art, Romare Bearden and "OnLine."
3. November 2010
The Phallic Woman
Donald Kuspit
Conflict and fragmentation in Louise Bourgeois’ depiction of the female body.
2. November 2010
ASK AN ART CRITIC - November 2010
Jerry Saltz
Bad art dealers, big spaces in the U.S., and managing a critic’s schedule.
Oktober
27. Oktober 2010
MORBID BEAUTY
Laura K. Jones
The artificial exotica of British artist Mat Collishaw.
21. Oktober 2010
ARTNET INSIDER
Rosetta Stone
Where’s Damien? Plus, notes on Frieze, the best vid in NYC and Gordon Onslow Ford.
20. Oktober 2010
MOTHER COURAGE
Walter Robinson
Patricia Piccinini’s sci-fi sculptures test our humanity.
15. Oktober 2010
SECRETS OF THE MEXICAN SUITCASE
Michèle C. Cone
Long-lost images of the Spanish Civil War come to light at the International Center for Photography.
6. Oktober 2010
ACTION MOVIE
Kayla Guthrie
Sexual communion - and community - in A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns’ film Community Action Center.
4. Oktober 2010
ASK AN ART CRITIC
Jerry Saltz
A new feature: Critic Jerry Saltz answers his reader’s questions on elitism, careerism and cronyism.
September
28. September 2010
SCULPTURE AS NARRATIVE
Simon Todd
An interview with English sculptor Nick Hornby.
29. September 2010
THE GREAT REGRESSION
Jerry Saltz
Dan Colen is making 2007 art in 2010.
22. September 2010
THE VERMEER OF CHILE
Charlie Finch
Chilean video artist Gianfranco Foschino captures visual joy in poverty.
17. September 2010
PLAY TIME
Charlie Finch
Rob Pruitt at GBE and Maccarone galleries, and Gene Beery at Algus Greenspon.
17. September 2010
DIARY OF AN ART STAR
Reverend Jen
Rosie Rebel, Cody Critcheloe, Peggy Noland, and cow as the new black.
14. September 2010
FREAK FLAG
Elisabeth Kley
David LaChapelle, Michael Jackson and the Catholic Church.
14. September 2010
GATEWAY TO THE HIMALAYAS
N.F. Karlins
Buddhas and deities at the Rubin Museum of Art.
1. September 2010
BEATING HEART NEW ORLEANS
Ben Davis
Dan Cameron on art in New Orleans after the Gulf oil spill.
August
31. August 2010
REPORT FROM REYKJAVIK
David D’Arcy
Spessi, Eggert Johanesson, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Friederike von Rauch, David Byrne, Fridgeir Helgason, Ragnar Axelsson, more.
16. August 2010
A Visit to Kabul’s National Gallery
Steve Mumford
Exploring Afghanistan’s painting heritage.
27. August 2010
VIDEODRONE
Kathrin Becker
An interview with German video artist Gabriele Stellbaum.
25. August 2010
VOYEURISM, EXPOSED
Vicki Goldberg
The camera as peeper in "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870."
11. August 2010
ACTION ARRESTED
Elisabeth Kley
Babette Mangolte’s Minimalist photographs and films.
6. August 2010
EYEFUL
Walter Robinson
Sean Mellyn’s "Paper Monet" at APF Lab.
3. August 2010
MAD ALLURE
Erik Bakke
Rupert Goldsworthy’s paintings take the pulse of Berlin’s social spectacle.
3. August 2010
MATISSE AND MEMORY
Charlie Finch
Looking forward to looking back.
Juli
29. Juli 2010
SOUVENIRS OF SALVATION
Elisabeth Kley
Jack Pierson’s exotic souvenirs at Bortolami Gallery.
27. Juli 2010
HUMAN CAMERA
Elisabeth Kley
Forty years of film art from Michel Auder - by turns glamorous, lyrical and seedy.
21. Juli 2010
FIRST STEPS
Michèle C. Cone
Leo Castelli’s first steps in the art world: a "Surrealist" event in Paris in ’39.
9. Juli 2010
PURVIS YOUNG: SOCIAL EXPRESSIONIST
Donald Kuspit
Dramatically direct and emotionally honest, Young’s paintings are tears in the social fabric.
9. Juli 2010
THE VIOLENT WORLD OF GLENN LOWRY
Charlie Finch
The MoMA director gives a "Tim Burtonesque" overview of his museum.
8. Juli 2010
OLD MASTER PARTY
Paul Jeromack
Forget about Turner & the Getty, the real fun belongs to Frans Francken.
7. Juli 2010
MR. CLEAN
Charlie Finch
Time to restate Mike Bidlo’s series of "Not Picassos."
16. Juli 2010
MACHINE TOOL
Ben Davis
Brion Gysin, pursuing the Other, on a cloud of smoke, into his own mind.
14. Juli 2010
THE BORING AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
"Pure Beauty" at LACMA shows John Baldessari to be "moral, responsible."
Juni
29. Juni 2010
WILL DEFLATION HIT THE ART MARKET?
Charlie Finch
The megarich may halt their buying.
26. Juni 2010
WHEN THE FAMILIAR BECOMES ALIEN
Charlie Finch
On Rafael Ferrer and Charles Burchfield.
18. Juni 2010
Reality Bites
Kimberly Bradley
Striving for social consciousness in the 6th edition of the Berlin Biennale.
11. Juni 2010
OLYMPIC HEIGHTS
Brook S. Mason
David and Lee Ann Lester debut their new London International Fine Art Fair.
10. Juni 2010
Profound Objects
Charlie Finch
Vija Celmins artful somethings spun from nothings.
4. Juni 2010
EAT THE RICH
Walter Robinson
Shepard Fairey’s missed opportunity.
4. Juni 2010
The esthetics of BP
Charlie Finch
Artists must lead the fight against corporate propaganda.
8. Juni 2010
The Tea Party Art Movement?
The art of the Tea Party movement.
3. Juni 2010
WHAT MARINA WROUGHT
Charlie Finch
The enduring effects of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present.
9. Juni 2010
PSYCHEDELIC! AT THE WHITNEY!
Charlie Finch
Let’s get old-school at Breuer’s Big Brute this July.
Mai
26. Mai 2010
MAGAZINE RACK
Grant Mandarino
May 2010 issues of Artforum, Art Monthly, Mute, Art in America and ARTnews.
24. Mai 2010
NOT JUST PRETTY GARDENS
Jerry Saltz
The untamed beauty of Monet’s last paintings.
21. Mai 2010
WHEN WILL ART TRULY CROSS OVER?
Charlie Finch
Mad Ave drains the truth from Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
17. Mai 2010
NOT A CAMP CLASSIC
Charlie Finch
Uncovering
Justine and the Boys
, Colette’s forgotten cult film from the late 1970s.
15. Mai 2010
THE AGE OF SEMI- POST- POSTMODERNISM
Ben Davis
An assessment of the state of an unfortunately still-relevant concept.
14. Mai 2010
AUCTION ECONOMICS
Charlie Finch
Painting the tape, baskets of art, auction choreography and other market mechanics.
April
27. April 2010
The Sorceress of Cedar
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
What’s so unsettling about Ursula von Rydingsvard’s eccentric, craggy sculptures?
26. April 2010
SUMMING UP THE SEASON
Charlie Finch
The foibles and fashions of the 2009-2010 school year.
23. April 2010
GOTHAM ART & THEATER
Elisabeth Kley
Simon Hantaï, Eileen Quinlan and Willie Cole.
21. April 2010
SHADES OF GRAY
Robert G. Edelman
The familial subjects of Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal.
16. April 2010
NAKED CAME I
Charlie Finch
Performers find Marina Abramovic’s work just a little too touching.
2. April 2010
IT’S A SAD, SAD WORLD
Walter Robinson
"Haunted" at the Guggenheim Museum.
März
31. März 2010
STRANGER THAN FICTION
David Coggins
From Bulgarian-born New York artist Daniel Bozhkov, an absurdist approach to daunting themes.
25. März 2010
THE CHICANO AVANT-GARDE
Walter Robinson
"Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement" at el Museo del Barrio.
24. März 2010
CRITICAL DIX
Donald Kuspit
Otto Dix was first and foremost a critic of capitalism.
8. März 2010
GIFT HORSE
Laura K. Jones
A film-within-a-film-within-a-film that begins as a chronicle of the phenomenal rise of Street Art.
4. März 2010
MODEL MODERNIST
Walter Robinson
The curiosities of Félix Vallotton’s studio portraits from the early 1900s.
3. März 2010
DIGITAL DREAMS
Blake Stone-Banks
China’s urbane new generation of digital photography tricksters.
Februar
26. Februar 2010
SPEEDING BULLET
Donald Kuspit
Beatrice Caracciolo drawings embrace the Existenstialists’ "dreadful freedom."
22. Februar 2010
BRICKTOP
Charlie Finch
Derrick Adams throws down a gauntlet of taboo.
22. Februar 2010
DEVELOPING
Jerry Saltz
Twenty years ago, Wolfgang Tillmans reimagined what a photo could be. Now he’s doing it again.
19. Februar 2010
GRAPHIC GRISTLE
Carlo McCormick
War is Graffiti veteran Todd James makes an appearance on Fifth Avenue.
19. Februar 2010
X OUT
Ben Davis
The lesson’s of X-Initiative’s final show, "Bring Your Own Art."
17. Februar 2010
AN EDGY MASTER
N.F. Karlins
"Traveling the Silk Road" at the American Museum of Natural History
Januar
15. Januar 2010
SECRET POWERS
An interview with Joanna Malinowska
Taking obsession to logical, or illogical, limits.
14. Januar 2010
Through History to Authenticity: John Millei’s Paintings
Donald Kuspit
Through History to Authenticity: John Millei’s Paintings by Donald Kuspit.
11. Januar 2010
WEEKEND UPDATE
Walter Robinson
Thomas Dozol, Ellen von Unwerth, R. Kern, Warhol drawings of feet, Annette Lemieux, MPA, Matthew Cusick, Vadim Katznelson, Les Rogers, John Tottenham, more.
8. Januar 2010
THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
Charlie Finch
Patti Smith and the bric-a-brac of life.
2009
Dezember
22. Dezember 2009
THE REAL IN PHOTOREALISM
Donald Kuspit
When ruthless objectivity becomes disturbingly unreal.
16. Dezember 2009
Velázquez Rediscovered
Paul Jeromack
The inside story of the Met’s new Velásquez portrait.
14. Dezember 2009
WHEN THE LOW WENT VERY HIGH
Jerry Saltz
Jeff Koons is the artist of the 2000-2009 decade.
12. Dezember 2009
THE THRIFT SHOP BIENNIAL
Charlie Finch
Whistle while you work the recycling bins.
3. Dezember 2009
ARTYRDOM
Charlie Finch
Does the marginalization of fine art have something to do with the fakeness of its transgressions?
2. Dezember 2009
IMMORTAL BELOVED
Elisabeth Kley
Slater Bradley studies the mournful aura of Joy Division.
2. Dezember 2009
WAR MACHINE
Donald Kuspit
The Bauhaus as a purveyor of anonymity and mechanization.
1. Dezember 2009
RICHTER’S EARTHQUAKE
Jerry Saltz
The German master deploys his ultrapowerful technique to evoke 9/11.
November
30. November 2009
NOUGHT FOR THE AUGHTS
Charlie Finch
The gaudy and outrageous decade.
24. November 2009
SILVER ANNIVERSARY
N.F. Karlins
Choice early photographs at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photography.
17. November 2009
MERRY AMERICA
Michèle C. Cone
Race in depictions of music and pleasure in 18th- and 19th-century American painting.
17. November 2009
WHO WANTS MORE?
An interview with Olaf Breuning David Coggins
Olaf Breuning on zombies, corporate advertising and discount travel.
12. November 2009
A SHORT HISTORY OF MASTURBATION
Charlie Finch
Art’s primal secret, found in Sterling Ruby’s "The Masturbators."
10. November 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - Nov. 09
Elisabeth Kley
George Grosz, Fernell Franco, Sally Mann, Justine Kurland, Hellen van Meene and Keizo Kitajima.
9. November 2009
A WHOLE NEW MUSEUM
Jerry Saltz
The Urs Fischer-izing of a four-story institution.
6. November 2009
MAKING "HEAT WAVES"
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
An interview with artist Robert Gober, curator of a new Charles Burchfield show.
3. November 2009
ABSTRACTION WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
Donald Kuspit
Frank Stella, Martha Russo and "boundless abstraction."
Oktober
30. Oktober 2009
SHADOW MAN
Charlie Finch
Harlem Renaissance photographer Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009.
16. Oktober 2009
A New Kind of Boom
Jerry Saltz
Despite the dire predictions, galleries and artists are busting out.
7. Oktober 2009
INSIDE OUT
Oriane Stender
The never-ending story of the South Carolina artist Aldwyth.
6. Oktober 2009
WHAT IF NO ONE COLLECTED?
Charlie Finch
Most art instantly disappears.
September
30. September 2009
PATCHING IT OVER
Donald Kuspit
The deconstructed picture in Conrad Marca-Relli’s collages.
28. September 2009
THE NEW CULTURE WARS
Ben Davis
A defense of the NEA conference call.
24. September 2009
MAPP & MICH
Lavinia Filippi
"Robert Mapplethorpe: Perfection in Form" at Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia.
22. September 2009
SOCKCUCKER BLUES
Charlie Finch
On Robert Frank’s
Cocksucker Blues.
18. September 2009
THE TYRANNY OF THE SMALL
Charlie Finch
Tauba Auerbach and human helplessness.
15. September 2009
I SOLD ANDY WARHOL, AN EXCERPT
Richard Polsky
Chapter 11 of the new book, I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon).
14. September 2009
A SHOT OF WRY
Charlie Finch
Photographer Tim Davis and "The New Antiquity."
2. September 2009
THE VARIETIES OF BODY
Donald Kuspit
The National Academy Museum’s "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009."
August
31. August 2009
I LOVE SUSAN SILAS
Charlie Finch
The New York photographer has a show coming up.
26. August 2009
GIVEN, FINALLY
Lewis Kachur
The Philadelphia Museum of Art takes another look at Marcel Duchamp’s
Étant donnés
.
25. August 2009
IN SEARCH OF THE VISUAL
Charlie Finch
An art hiatus in the multiplex.
24. August 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - Aug. 09
Elisabeth Kley
Summer group shows at Marian Goodman, Murray Guy, Alexander and Bonin, Lisa Cooley, Harris Lieberman, Casey Kaplan.
20. August 2009
MONEY TALKS
Mary Rinebold
The Bruce High Quality Foundation critiques the art market.
20. August 2009
STING LIKE A BUTTERFLY, FLOAT LIKE A BEE
Charlie Finch
A summer mediation on boxing, Muhammad Ali and the fate of the American rebel.
19. August 2009
SABBATH’S DAYS
Joe Fyfe
Zak Smith’s
We Did Porn
(TinHouse Books).
14. August 2009
ON THE SPECTACLE OF THE EVERYDAY
Hou Hanru
The curator of the upcoming Biennale de Lyon explains his concept.
12. August 2009
ALONE IN A CROWD
Roger Boyce
Ronnie Van Hout at Christchurch City Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.
10. August 2009
SEE HER ROAR
Ilka Scobie
The expatriate love goddess Dorothy Iannone comes home to the U.S.
6. August 2009
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
Charlie Finch
Another art decade draws to a close.
5. August 2009
ARCADIA ALL OVER
N.F. Karlins
"Arcadia" at ClampArt and "Desert Light" at Throckmorton Fine Art.
Juli
27. Juli 2009
NINE WAYS TO MAKE MONEY IN THE ART MARKET
Richard Polsky
The simple way to success.
27. Juli 2009
WE THREE
Charlie Finch
Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009.
23. Juli 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - July 09
Elisabeth Kley
Summer group shows at Marian Goodman, Murray Guy, Alexander and Bonin, Lisa Cooley, Harris Lieberman, Casey Kaplan.
21. Juli 2009
INSIDE MAN
Ilka Scobie
Eric Fischl on Tumbling Woman, bullfights and his travelling art train.
20. Juli 2009
IRANIAN ART NOW
Ben Davis
"Iran Inside Out" at the Chelsea Art Museum.
16. Juli 2009
NINE WAYS TO LOSE MONEY IN THE ART MARKET
Richard Polsky
Rules for the new recession.
13. Juli 2009
TEEING UP THE 20TH CENTURY
Jerry Saltz
In Belgium 120 years ago, James Ensor let his freak flag fly.
10. Juli 2009
GODDESS OR GYNECOLOGY?
Donald Kuspit
Robert Graham’s female nude.
7. Juli 2009
GRAHAMARAMA
Peter Scott
The fractured self in ""Dan Graham: Beyond"" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Juni
29. Juni 2009
ENTROPY IN VENICE
Jerry Saltz
Art about art at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Plus, is something coming out of the other side of that black hole?
29. Juni 2009
MICHAEL AND JEFF
Charlie Finch
Childhood as a signifier of dread in fairy tales by Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons.
26. Juni 2009
Art’s Near Future
Jerry Saltz
X-Initiative’s "No Soul For Sale" shows the way.
25. Juni 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - June 09
Elisabeth Kley
Huang Yong Ping, Patty Chang, Laurel Nakadate, Andrea Fraser, Sadie Benning, Rochelle Feinstein.
22. Juni 2009
WILL COLLECTORS STEP FORWARD?
Charlie Finch
A challenge to art buyers.
15. Juni 2009
Dude, You’ve Gotta See This
Jerry Saltz
Three Charles Ray sculptures at Matthew Marks are a total trip.
11. Juni 2009
MANON TRANSFORMER
Mary Rinebold
New York’s first survey of photographs and installations by the contemporary Swiss artist Manon.
10. Juni 2009
BIENNALE DEGREE ZERO
Ben Davis
Daniel Birnbaum’s "Making Worlds" is a Type 0 Biennale.
9. Juni 2009
NAUMAN AND JOHNS
Charlie Finch
Contrasting visions of despair from two celebrated contemporary artists.
5. Juni 2009
CHRIST IN THE CAR
Charlie Finch
The esthetics of the auto in contemporary America.
5. Juni 2009
PARIS DISPATCH
Laura K. Jones
Stanislas Bourgain, Masha Shubina, Gyan Panchal, Didier Trenet, Emeric Glayse, Keiichi Nitta, Yorgos Nikas, Thomas Dryll, Shilpa Gupta, Nick Devereux, more.
5. Juni 2009
THE DEATH OF A POET
Charlie Finch
Robert Colescott, 1925-2009.
4. Juni 2009
MAKE DO
John Drury
Intuitive action and true passion from four Outsider Artists.
4. Juni 2009
THE HEATHER WILCOXON STORY
Richard Polsky
Making art the old-fashioned bohemian way.
Mai
26. Mai 2009
PEEP SHOW
Michèle C. Cone
Sex and the phenomenology of looking in "Two Shows: Peeps / Pistoletto" at CUNY’s James Galley.
22. Mai 2009
FAIREY TALES
Ben Davis
The myth and reality of Shepard Fairey’s preppy Pop anti-authoritarianism.
21. Mai 2009
ARTNET DESIGN - MODERN Magazine
em>MODERN Magazine debuts, Frank Gehry’s Tuyomo bench, industrial ornament in Phila, Magen H. Gallery expands, more.
20. Mai 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - Mai 09
Elisabeth Kley
Malcolm Morley, Oliver Herring, Betty Tompkins, Carrie Moyer, Basim Magdy, Glen Baldridge, Michelle Handelman.
18. Mai 2009
GREAT ARTISTS STEAL
Jerry Saltz
“The Pictures Generation” better than the criticism that grew up around it.
14. Mai 2009
DIARY OF AN ART STAR - Being a sex symbol
Reverend Jen
A visit to "The Model as Muse" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
12. Mai 2009
BEARDED RAINBOWS
Charlie Finch
Pablo Picasso is a bowlful of fun.
7. Mai 2009
Got Mik?
Charlie Finch
The Museum of Modern Art presents films by Dutch artist Aernout Mik.
6. Mai 2009
Art Market Watch
Stewart Waltzer
Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern sale on May 5, 2009
4. Mai 2009
KIEV DISPATCH
Laura K. Jones
An on-the-spot report on the opening of Damien Hirst’s "Requiem" at the Pinchuk Art Centre.
April
30. April 2009
Animal Spirits
Ben Davis
The strengths and limits of Adel Abdessemed’s nihilistic guerrilla art.
24. April 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - Apr. 09
Elisabeth Kley
"Late Picasso," John Waters, Kalup Linzy, Kinke Kooi, Thomas Trosch, Richard Allen Morris.
23. April 2009
Drawn and Quartered
Charlie Finch
"Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art.
22. April 2009
POLITICS OF PAINTING
Richard Phillips and the erotics of capitalism. An interview by Alisa Birenbaum and Katerina Llanes.
20. April 2009
"JESUS" SAVES
Jerry Saltz
Godd bless the New Museum’s tantalizing triennial.
17. April 2009
JESUS COMPLEX
Ben Davis
The New Museum Triennial fails as a portrait of a generation but succeeds as an essay on the "naughty oughties."
14. April 2009
ROMANCE OF CAPITAL
Walter Robinson
"Women: A Loan Exhibition from the Collection of Steven and Alexandra Cohen" at Sotheby’s New York."
13. April 2009
Jesus Responds
Charlie Finch
"Younger than Jesus" at the New Museum.
8. April 2009
Asia on My Mind
Donald Kuspit
"The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989" at the Guggenheim Museum.
7. April 2009
PERFECTLY FRANK
Sidney Lawrence
Frank’s "Americans" step into the National Gallery.
7. April 2009
The Coming Art Boom
Charlie Finch
Market conditions are perfect for a resurgence in classic contemporary.
März
30. März 2009
ENERGY TO BURN
Jerry Saltz
Two new gallery spaces in New York are, if not fully realized, rich in possibility.
27. März 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - March 09
Elisabeth Kley
Carolee Schneemann, Laura Parnes, Paul Sharits, James Castle, Andrew Lord.
25. März 2009
ARTNET.DE DIGEST
Kimberly Bradley
The Berlin art bubble has burst. Sort of.
25. März 2009
EVACUATION OF THE WEST
Charlie Finch
A downbeat look at the American West in MoMA’s "Into the Sunset."
24. März 2009
HE’S THE SHIT
Ben Davis
Italian conceptualist Piero Manzoni was more of a professional than he seems.
17. März 2009
ORIENTALISM & THE ART MARKET
Adrian Dannatt
A visit with Shafik Gabr, Egypt’s premiere collector of Orientalist art.
13. März 2009
LONDON DISPATCH - March 09
Laura K. Jones
The Colony Room, Keith Coventry, "Mythologies," Alan Miller, Evan Holloway, Cindy Sherman, Wallis Gallery, Alex Melamid, Ull Hohn, Boo Saville, much more.
13. März 2009
THE TWITTER ESTHETICA
Ben Davis
The art fair experience finds the form of writing proper to it.
12. März 2009
CHICAGO BUILD UP
Pedro Velez
Edvard Munch, Robert Davis and Michael Langlois, Michelle Grabner, Matt Nichols, Matt Hanner, more.
11. März 2009
Met nets Sotheby’s Subleyras
Paul Jeromack
A previously unknown
Portrait of Pope Benedict XIV
by Pierre Subleyras goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6. März 2009
MORALITY PLAY
Jerry Saltz
The art market is more moral than the stock market isn’t it?
3. März 2009
NO SMILES AT MOMA
Charlie Finch
The museum stamps out a bit of free creativity.
2. März 2009
The Pricing Issue
Richard Polsky
Two difficulties with the new recessionary art market.
Februar
26. Februar 2009
Epistle to Kippy
Epistle to Kippy
"Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Modern Art.
23. Februar 2009
I LOVE SAATCHI
Kenny Schachter
A look at the new space of the king of British art patrons.
23. Februar 2009
PSYCO-SOCIAL STILL-LIFE
Ben Davis
Ruud van Empel’s “Souvenir” series shows how history troubles our fantasies.
19. Februar 2009
Treasury of Style
Brook S. Mason
What to watch in Christie’s sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection
18. Februar 2009
COPING WITH COPLANS
Charlie Finch
Revisiting the photographs of the late John Coplans.
18. Februar 2009
DOWN WITH THE CUBE!
Jerry Saltz
White Columns’ anniversary show proves that galleries can (and should) enliven art.
17. Februar 2009
RAWING NOTEBOOK
N.F. Karlins
"Master Drawings New York," plus major shows at the Met and the Morgan.
12. Februar 2009
A Trans-National Triennial?
Coline Milliard
Nicolas Bourriaud curates a sexy new phrase at Tate Britain.
11. Februar 2009
Fashion Is Everywhere
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
A "year of fashion" at the International Center of Photography
6. Februar 2009
Muscular Old Masters
Paul Jeromack
Inside Sotheby’s New York sale of Old Master paintings in January.
6. Februar 2009
WEEKEND UPDATE - Feb. 09
Walter Robinson
Pierre Bonnard, Peter Doig, Erik van Lieshout, more.
4. Februar 2009
Leaving Eden
Jerry Saltz
The Last Days of Pipilotti Rist’s
Pour Your Body Out (7354 Meters).
Januar
30. Januar 2009
Screwtube
Charlie Finch
Old corporate profits in the new democratic media.
29. Januar 2009
CRISIS AND CRITICISM
Ben Davis
The "crisis in criticism" meets the economic crisis.
27. Januar 2009
Manhattan Mega Storage
Jerry Saltz
Vic Muniz’s "Rebus" offers a formula to save MoMA.
26. Januar 2009
A BAD LIGHT SHOW
Charlie Finch
Robert Irwin’s "Red Drawing White Drawing Black Painting"
26. Januar 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - Jan. 09
Elisabeth Kley
Stephen Sprouse, Liz Renay, Nick Cage, Barkley L. Hendricks, "Gothic: Dark Glamour," Don Bachardy.
22. Januar 2009
COLLECTVISM WORKS!
Charlie Finch
Wake up from the bad-dream art world of star dealer hegemony!
21. Januar 2009
GOTHAM ART & THEATER
Elisabeth Kley
Virgil Marti, Claire Fontaine, Omer Fast, Sharon Lockhart, Robin Graubard and Hélio Oiticica
16. Januar 2009
ARTNET GOSSIP
Rosetta Stone
GOSSIP, GOSSIP, GOSSIP.
14. Januar 2009
MR. OBAMA GOES TO WASHINGTON
Sidney Lawrence
An Inaugural Art Guide for Visitors
12. Januar 2009
MoMA’s Sex Change
Jerry Saltz
Pipilotti Rist gives a masculinist MoMA a redeeming shot of estrogen.
12. Januar 2009
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
Charlie Finch
A proposal for a new, more sane and generous art market.
7. Januar 2009
QUO VADIS?
Lavinia Filippi
Lawrence Weiner in Rome.
6. Januar 2009
IN DEFENSE OF CONCEPTS
Ben Davis
A new battle between "conceptual" and "traditional" art.
6. Januar 2009
OUT IS IN
N.F. Karlins
Good news at the 2009 Outsider Art Fair.
5. Januar 2009
PUERTO RICAN SUN - Jan. 09
Pedro Velez
Comedy and corruption in the celebrated U.S. territory.
2008
Dezember
30. Dezember 2008
THE 2008 REVUE
Ben Davis, Walter Robinson
"Fly high, fall hard," a motto for the times.
22. Dezember 2008
Great Expectations
Charlie Finch
Momentary encounters with the famous and renowned.
19. Dezember 2008
An Afternoon at the Met
Christopher Sweet
Visiting Rudy Burckhardt’s
New York, N. Why?
17. Dezember 2008
LUST OR LIFE
Charlie Finch
Kiki Seror’s motifs of carnality.
15. Dezember 2008
MIAMI PRINT REPORT 2008
Deborah Ripley
The print scene at Art Basel Miami Beach week.
15. Dezember 2008
TOP TEN 2008
Jerry Saltz
The best art shows of 2008.
12. Dezember 2008
PALE FIRE
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
New sculptures by Rachel Whiteread and George Stoll.
11. Dezember 2008
PAWN SHOP CONCEPTUALISM
Ben Davis
Jeff Sonhouse’s "composites" reach for a neither/nor esthetic.
10. Dezember 2008
ASK MARK KOSTABI
Mark Kostabi
Advice for artists in an economic downturn.
4. Dezember 2008
Crisis, What Crisis?
Walter Robinson
Weathering the storm at Art Basel Miami Beach.
4. Dezember 2008
Drawing Notebook
N.F. Karlins
Six centuries of drawings of New York City at the New-York Historical Society.
3. Dezember 2008
The Good, The Bad, and The Greedy
Richard Polsky
Looking at the art-market slump of the early 1990s for lessons for today.
2. Dezember 2008
Miami Madness
Fairs featuring some 1,123 exhibitors summed up. Plus, the "Best of Naomi Campbell!"
1. Dezember 2008
Gotham Art & Theater - Dec. 08
Elisabeth Kley
Leon Golub, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Medardo Rosso, Robert Melee, Nicole Cherubini, Aurel Schmidt, more.
1. Dezember 2008
The Personal is Not Political
Charlie Finch
Last week I attended the first advance screening of the Miramax Film, The Reader, which opens Dec. 10, 2008, and is considered a prime candidate to sweep the Oscars next year.
November
24. November 2008
Zen abstraction
Donald Kuspit
Jun Kaneko’s "Dangos: Roof Garden Installation" in Philadelphia
20. November 2008
Oh Yes They Did!
Ben Davis
Oh Yes They Did! by Ben Davis - The Yes Men and Friends take on the "New York Times"
19. November 2008
Drunken Master
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
German artist Martin Kippenberger made mockery his method.
18. November 2008
A Silver Lining
Charlie Finch
All-female sales could cure a down market.
17. November 2008
High Modernism
Brook S. Mason
Sanford Smith’s 23rd annual "Modernism: A Century of Style and Design" at the Park Avenue Armory.
13. November 2008
ART MARKET WATCH - Christie’s New York
$113.6 million at Christie’s contemporary.
13. November 2008
FOLK ART NOTEBOOK
N.F. Karlins
James Castle, Thomas Chambers and Martín Ramírez.
12. November 2008
LIGHTER THAN EROS
Charlie Finch
"Eros" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.
10. November 2008
World in a Bottle
Jerry Saltz
Giorgio Morandi and the pleasures of being minor.
7. November 2008
BLEEDING-HEART BIENNALE
Walter Robinson
Dan Cameron and the "Prospect.1 New Orleans" international biennial in New Orleans.
7. November 2008
I AM A BERLINER!
Charlie Finch
Brigid Berlin, the last of the superstars.
6. November 2008
THE FATE OF THE $5 POLLOCK
Thomas Hoving
ARTnews
traces a tortuous tale of Pollock paintings and possibly pilfered fingerprints.
5. November 2008
THE NEW PRINT PARADIGM
Deborah Ripley
Action at the print auctions, plus the IPDFA and E/AB print fairs.
Oktober
30. Oktober 2008
FAME-FUCKING AND OTHER FRIVOLITIES
Donald Kuspit
The temptations of Elizabeth Peyton’s idealized celebrities.
29. Oktober 2008
MIRÓ, MIRÓ ON THE WALL
Charlie Finch
A hyperactive hodgepodge at MoMA reveals an anachronistic painter’s painter.
23. Oktober 2008
Artnet News - Oct. 2008
Cuts at MoMA, the Gugg goes to the movies, awards and grants, more. Plus, Patricia Faure, RIP.
23. Oktober 2008
BLACK LIGHT DISTRICT
Charlie Finch
Sensuous and reflective craft in "Japanese Postwar Photography"
22. Oktober 2008
A LIFE IN CLAY
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Ken Price talks about his long escape from "art craft hell."
21. Oktober 2008
A MIRACLE FOR MUSEUMS
Thomas Hoving
The Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program now has a $5-billion domestic component.
16. Oktober 2008
KING TUT IS BACK!
Thomas Hoving
"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" opens at the M.H. de Yong Memorial Museum in 2009.
15. Oktober 2008
ANIMALISM
Charlie Finch
Alexander Calder is for kids.
15. Oktober 2008
FRIEZE FACTOR
All eyes turn to London for the Frieze Art Fair and its satellite events.
15. Oktober 2008
SCENES FROM SHANGHAI
Ben Davis
Searching for the soul of the Chinese art world.
9. Oktober 2008
NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
New works by Cecily Brown and Vik Muniz.
8. Oktober 2008
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
Charlie Finch
Gargoylish paintings by Damon Johnson, moody photos by Sebastian Mlynarski.
7. Oktober 2008
LONDON LETTER
Ben Street
Jorge Queiroz, Ewan Gibbs, Anthony Goicolea and Roger Hiorns.
6. Oktober 2008
ARTNET NEWS - October 2008
Warhol, Murakami, Berenice Abbott at Artnet Online Auctions.
3. Oktober 2008
RENAISSANCE GOOFBALL
Charlie Finch
On the road with Elliott Arkin and "Mr. Artsee"
September
29. September 2008
LOOKING OUT FOR NO. 2
Jerry Saltz
The good, the bad and the terrible of the new Chelsea art season.
26. September 2008
RAZZLE WITHOUT DAZZLE
Charlie Finch
New beaded masterpieces from Liza Lou.
23. September 2008
LET’S GET SERIOUS FORA MOMENT
Jerry Saltz
Is the apocalyptic art of "After Nature" a sign of newfound earnestness?
19. September 2008
THE CHINA PRICE
Ben Davis
Stalking the elusive Chinese collector at ShContemporary.
18. September 2008
AN ALIEN VISION
Charlie Finch
"Van Gogh and the Colors of Night" at the Museum of Modern Art.
18. September 2008
MUSEUM DATE
Jerry Saltz
A colloquy with architecture critic Justin Davidson on the new Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.
17. September 2008
A GLORY AT THE CURRIER MUSEUM
Thomas Hoving
Curator Kurt Sundstrom discovers an overlooked masterpiece by Florentine sculptor Antonio Rossellino.
17. September 2008
SOPHIE AND ALAIN
Charlie Finch
French Pop artist Alain Jacquet dies in New York at age 69
16. September 2008
SEX, DEATH, DINNER
Jerry Saltz
An art critic gets ravished by a legendary Spanish chef.
15. September 2008
KRASNER’S "LITTLE IMAGE" PAINTINGS
Robert G. Edelman
Lee Krasner’s breakout abstractions from 1946-50.
12. September 2008
COMFORT AND JOY
Charlie Finch
New paintings by Damian Loeb and Isca Greenfield-Sanders.
11. September 2008
THE TRIUMPH OF SHIT
Donald Kuspit
Andres Serrano, Paul McCarthy and the avant-garde artist as an anal masturbator.
10. September 2008
DIARY OF AN ART STAR - infinite riches
Reverend Jen
Braving Hurricane Hanna for the sake of avant-garde art.
9. September 2008
MY DINNER WITH KISSINGER
Charlie Finch
The still-vibrant psyche of 85-year-old Henry Kissinger.
8. September 2008
ART MARKET WATCH - SEPTEMBER AUCTIONS
September art auctions bring it on
5. September 2008
ESTHETIC POLITICS?
Ben Davis
The idea that art is a model for politics is the biggest art-critical boondoggle around.
3. September 2008
VERMIN ON THE LOOSE
Simon Todd
Lyon & Turnbull’s "Colony Room Club" auction marks the debut of a new Banksy authentication entity, "Vermin."
2. September 2008
A FIRMAMENT OF STARS
Charlie Finch
Gearing up for the new fall art season.
2. September 2008
THE ROAD TO TAL AFAR
Steve Mumford
Working with the Iraqi army in Mosul.
August
25. August 2008
THINGS FALL APART
Charlie Finch
David Kramer’s new book-cum-artwork,
Snake Oil
22. August 2008
THE ART CRITIC
Peter Plagens
In Chapter 1 of this novel, to be published in
Artnet Magazine
: an exhibition season in the life of Arthur, the art-world-weary critic for a weekly news magazine.
21. August 2008
STRANGE MANIFESTATIONS
Brian Skar
The parts are greater than the whole in Manifesta 7.
20. August 2008
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
Charlie Finch
Pipilotti Rist’s "Pour Your Body Out" at MoMA.
14. August 2008
SUMMER SOCIAL
N.F. Karlins
Political art in "Competing Ideologies" at D. Wigmore Fine Art. Plus, "Philip Guston: Works on Paper."
13. August 2008
KOENIG OF THE CATSKILLS
Walter Robinson
New York dealer Leo Koenig opens a satellite gallery in his dairy barn.
12. August 2008
THE EMPERORS OF ART
Charlie Finch
Hypermaterialism from Fifth Avenue to Dubai to Beijing.
11. August 2008
Biting and Bruised
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
The painting of Marlene Dumas.
11. August 2008
Not Just Hot Air
Jerry Saltz
Jeff Koons, better than you think.
6. August 2008
Cottage Industry
Andrew Berardini
The new collaborative Cottage Home gallery for the Chinatown gallery scene in Los Angeles.
6. August 2008
The Murder of Damien Hirst
Charlie Finch
The perfect work of art.
4. August 2008
Gotham Art & Theater - Aug. 08
Elisabeth Kley
Group shows galore, at Gavin Brown, Maccarone, Matthew Marks, Greene Naftali, Moti Hasson, D’Amelio Terras and Canada.
4. August 2008
Skyboxes
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Halfway between the prairie and the Jetsons with the architecture of John Lautner.
Juli
30. Juli 2008
A Kiss for Kirchner
Charlie Finch
"Kirchner and the Berlin Street" at the Museum of Modern Art.
28. Juli 2008
London Dispatch - July 08
Laura K. Jones
Sudeley Castle, Boo Saville, CCC Moscow, Alexei Buldakov, Diane Machulina, Sacha Newley, Liliane Lijn, Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin, more.
25. Juli 2008
Berkshire Idler
Charlie Finch
The state of the arts at Belvoir Terrace Camp in Lenox, Mass.
24. Juli 2008
Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
"Jess 1923-2004" and two group shows put the spotlight on collage.
23. Juli 2008
A Sigg Joke
Charlie Finch
More thoughts on the case against the Olympics in China.
17. Juli 2008
J.M.W. TURNER, ONE OF A KIND, ONCE AND FOR EVER
Thomas Hoving
Turner transformed grim and jejune reality into compelling fantasies of color, light and atmosphere.
16. Juli 2008
THE RISE OF THE SUPERARTISTS
Ben Davis
Takashi Murakami, Olafur Eliasson and today’s avant-garde.
14. Juli 2008
Dia’s Last Chance
Jerry Saltz
Does Philippe Vergne have what it takes to keep Dia from being DOA?
11. Juli 2008
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - July 08
Elisabeth Kley
Jane and Louise Wilson, Mat Collishaw, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Tetsumi Kudo, Cameron Hayes, Dawn Mellor.
11. Juli 2008
PAIN IS THE NAMEOF THE GAME
Charlie Finch
Painter Chuck Connelly in HBO’s new
The Art of Failure
10. Juli 2008
BOOK REPORT
Walter Robinson
Art & Today
,
Great Collectors of Our Time
,
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection
,
Gary Panter
, and
Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruzalta
9. Juli 2008
TREASURES OF HAJJI BABA
N.F. Karlins
"Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors" at the New-York Historical Society
9. Juli 2008
WATER FALLACIES
Charlie Finch
Public art and the public good.
8. Juli 2008
UBIQUITOUS ART
Charlie Finch
The idea of art is everywhere these days.
7. Juli 2008
Take Me to the River
Jerry Saltz
Olafur Eliasson’s
New York City Waterfalls
come on with a wink, not a whoosh.
Juni
30. Juni 2008
BURIED TREASURES
Thomas Hoving
Two spectacular treasures on loan to the Met.
27. Juni 2008
Oil Painting
Charlie Finch
Abstract Expressionism in the sheikdom.
25. Juni 2008
Chaos Theory
Charlie Finch
Buckminster Fuller, Paul McCarthy, and Salvador Dali’s "Painting and Film"
25. Juni 2008
Cowboys in Rome
Lavinia Filippi
Richard Prince opens at Gagosian Gallery in Rome.
25. Juni 2008
Two Coats of Painting
Jerry Saltz
Tony Shafrazi, the man who tagged Guernica, tries another way of superimposing new art and old.
18. Juni 2008
Guns and Collages
Carlo McCormick
New works from country conceptualist Mike Osterhout.
17. Juni 2008
TALKING PICTURES
N.F. Karlins
"Glossolalia" at the Museum of Modern Art.
13. Juni 2008
AN IDLER’S DIARY
Charlie Finch
Wandering around SoHo and Chelsea at the beginning of summer.
13. Juni 2008
MASTERPIECES BY THE MINORS
Paul Jeromack
With its recent purchase of a seascape by Abraham de Verwer, the National Gallery of Art makes a smart collecting move.
12. Juni 2008
BLUE-COLLAR HEAVEN
Kevin Nance
A mythic vision of Chicago in Tony Fitzpatrick’s "Portraits of a Remembered City"
10. Juni 2008
MOSCOW EXPRESS
Kate Sutton
Art Moscow 2008, the World Fine Art Fair, the new MCAA, Volker Diehl, Gary Tatinsian, Dmitry Prigov, more.
9. Juni 2008
Statuary Story
Jerry Saltz
David Altmejd’s otherworldly figures create narrative just by standing still.
4. Juni 2008
SINISTER SKIES
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
Roger Brown’s dialogue with disaster.
2. Juni 2008
The Art World’s Space Invader
Jerry Saltz
Does a Warhol look different when it’s hanging above someone’s TV set? Ask Louise Lawler.
Mai
30. Mai 2008
ART MARKET WATCH - May 2008
Records, records, records - Latin American at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Chinese contemporary at Christie’s Hong Kong, American at Sotheby’s New York, more.
30. Mai 2008
BASEL ART BLOW-OUT
"Art Unlimited," Art 39 Basel, Design Miami Basel, Volta, Scope, Liste, Bâlelatina, Print Basel, more.
28. Mai 2008
GOODBYE JOHN
Charlie Finch
John Weber, 1932-2008.
27. Mai 2008
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - Mai 08
Elisabeth Kley
Jonathan Meese, Otto Muehl, Joan Mitchell, Gert & Uwe Tobias, David Altmejd, Rachel Feinstein, Delia Brown, Robert Hawkins.
23. Mai 2008
FIRE AND ICE
Ben Davis
Sexual dysfunction and environmental consciousness at the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland.
23. Mai 2008
LIGHT INDUSTRY
Charlie Finch
Whimsy and dignity in photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher.
21. Mai 2008
Cop Rock
Steve Mumford
At combat outpost Rock in Mosul.
20. Mai 2008
DEATH AND THE ARTIST
Michèle C. Cone
Issues of freedom and fame in the work of the Fluxus artist Yoko Ono.
20. Mai 2008
THE EYES HAVE IT
Charlie Finch
Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.
19. Mai 2008
ATLAS OF MINDSCAPES
Robert G. Edelman
For Pier Pizzi Cannella, a map is a mystery.
16. Mai 2008
HAPPENING NOW
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
An exposition, not an exhibition, about Allan Kaprow in L.A. Plus, Lawrence Weiner.
14. Mai 2008
RAUSCHENBERG/WARHOL
Charlie Finch
RIP Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
13. Mai 2008
THE ADVANCE OF BEAUTY
Donald Kuspit
Thomas Chimes and Lynda Benglis at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia.
12. Mai 2008
MISSION ABORTED
Charlie Finch
The nuances of Yale’s Aliza Shvarts controversy.
11. Mai 2008
AMERICAN INVENTOR
Jerry Saltz
Remembering Rauschenberg.
11. Mai 2008
AN ART MUTUAL FUND
Richard Polsky
Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.
9. Mai 2008
THE BILLY PAPPAS PROBLEM
Ben Davis
Julie Checkoway’s documentary
Waiting for Hockney
raises questions about the sociology of art.
8. Mai 2008
DIAMOND IN THE DESERT
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Richard Neutra’s modernist Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes up for auction.
7. Mai 2008
BACK AND FORTH
Charlie Finch
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican collaborate on "Pong" at Tracy Williams, Ltd.
5. Mai 2008
AMONG THE KURDS
Steve Mumford
The war in Mosul is one of bombs.
5. Mai 2008
THE DAY THELIGHTS WENT ON
Jerry Saltz
Dan Flavin’s 1964 breakout show, in meticulous reproduction.
2. Mai 2008
BREATH OF LIFE
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
New works from the George Rickey estate at Marlborough Chelsea and Maxwell Davidson.
April
22. April 2008
CLAUDE AT THE CLARK
Paul Jeromack
Inside a major museum acquisition of drawings by Claude Lorrain.
21. April 2008
CHICAGO A GO-GO
Artropolis is massive, with more than 700 exhibitors (and Bridge bows out).
21. April 2008
DID I TELL YOU THE ONE ABOUT THE CONTRACTOR IN IRAQ?
Steve Mumford
On the way to Mosul in Iraq in the spring of 2008.
18. April 2008
FEAR STRIKES OUT
Charlie Finch
Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.
18. April 2008
GOTHAM ART & THEATER - Apr. 08
Elisabeth Kley
Marcel Dzama, Henry Darger, Angelo Filomeno, Hope Atherton, Peter Hujar, Mika Tajima, Glen Fogel, Eric Heist.
17. April 2008
FAKE IT 'TIL YOU MAKE IT
Charlie Finch
Olafur Eliasson and the illusion of taste.
16. April 2008
ANIMAL KINGDOM
Sarah Canner
Liu Jia’s "Social Fables" at Galerie Vallois
14. April 2008
PUERTO RICAN SUN - Apr. 08
Walter Robinson
Art and artists at the third annual Circa Puerto Rico art fair.
11. April 2008
ART IN FLUX
Ben Davis
Flux Factory’s final show marks the end of an era.
10. April 2008
AIPAD ATTRACTION
Walter Robinson
The 28th AIPAD Photography Show.
10. April 2008
BEAUX VISAGE
N.F. Karlins
American portraitist Cecilia Beaux gets a long-overdue reassessment.
8. April 2008
The Threat of Love
Charlie Finch
Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.
März
31. März 2008
Diary of an Art Star - Lower East Side
Reverend Jen
Touring the new Lower East Side gallery scene.
31. März 2008
Hanging at the Horts’
Charlie Finch
Talk of Marlene Dumas, Richard Tuttle and Jimmy Page at Susan and Michael Hort’s private view during Armory weekend.
28. März 2008
Fair Weather?
Walter Robinson
The Armory, Volta, Scope, Pulse, LA Art, Bridge, more.
25. März 2008
ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
N.F. Karlins
A retrospective of the work of 20th-century photographer (and Surrealist muse) Lee Miller.
24. März 2008
When Cool turns Cold
Jerry Saltz
Towards a No Painting Biennial.
21. März 2008
ARMORY ACTION
More than 500 galleries make for an art fair feeding frenzy during New York’s Armory Week.
21. März 2008
CHEERS!
Charlie Finch
A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s
Salon Aleman
at the Park Avenue Armory.
19. März 2008
BETWITCHED
Charlie Finch
New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.
18. März 2008
Not So Wei Out
Charlie Finch
Ai Weiwei’s
Descending Light
at Mary Boone Gallery.
18. März 2008
San Francisco Happenings 08
Brian Andrews
Jens Haaning, Paul McCarthy, Nicholas Graham, Albert Reyes, Packard Jennings, Steve Lambert, Paul Shambroom, more.
17. März 2008
Starwalkers
Charlie Finch
Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.
14. März 2008
My Dinner with Simon
Charlie Finch
Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.
14. März 2008
Realism and Voyerism
Michèle C. Cone
Gustave Courbet liked to see what he was not supposed to see.
13. März 2008
Playing With Fire
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
Cai Guo-Qiang’s "I Want to Believe" at the Guggenheim Museum.
11. März 2008
Dooby Dooby Dubai
Charlie Finch
A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.
7. März 2008
Esthetics and Anesthesia
Simon Todd
An interview with the English artist Keith Coventry.
7. März 2008
Rave On
Ben Davis
A "rave review" for the Whitney’s 2008 biennial.
3. März 2008
Fever Dreams
Jerry Saltz
A show about archives gets brilliantly lost in the vaults.
Februar
27. Februar 2008
Sugar Shock
Adrian Dannatt
Ellen Berkenblit and the face of Ellen Berkenblit.
26. Februar 2008
Childhood’s End
Charlie Finch
Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.
25. Februar 2008
Éminence Grise
Jerry Saltz
"Jasper Johns: Gray" shows off an imagination that works in non-imaginative ways.
21. Februar 2008
Phantom Sensations
Kathryn Garcia
Andreas Hofer’s end-of-art funhouse.
20. Februar 2008
Get Smart
Charlie Finch
"Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.
20. Februar 2008
London Dispatch - Feb.08
Laura K. Jones
Rachel Howard, The Approach, Roman Signer, Poppy de Villeneuve, Germaine Kruip, Darren Almond, Paul Pfeiffer, Marc Quinn, Peter Doig, more.
19. Februar 2008
Love for Sale
Charlie Finch
Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy
15. Februar 2008
Capital Roundup Feb. 08
Sidney Lawrence
A Panda pick-me-up, roller-coaster moods and New York nostalgia on 14th Street. Plus, D.C.’s new Norman Foster courtyard.
15. Februar 2008
The Bling Game
Ben Davis
Say hello to Luis Gispert’s little friend.
12. Februar 2008
The Graying of Modernism
Donald Kuspit
The whimper of "Jasper Johns: Gray" at the Metropolitan Museum.
12. Februar 2008
The Way It Was
Charlie Finch
The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.
11. Februar 2008
Folk Heroine
N.F. Karlins
A retrospective of the celebrated self-taught painter Malcah Zeldis.
4. Februar 2008
A Cosmic Joke
Charlie Finch
Robert Smithson’s
Spiral Jetty
was designed to be passive.
Januar
31. Januar 2008
January Old Masters 2008
Paul Jeromack
Sotheby’s New York totals $91.7 million.
29. Januar 2008
Pain Without Injury
Eliza Slavet
Works by Avi Alpert & Steven Lam, Steve Ausbury and Olen Hsu at PS122 Gallery
28. Januar 2008
Critical Mass
Charlie Finch
The keys to the art-critical kingdom.
25. Januar 2008
L.A. Confidential 2008
Emma Gray
Doug Harvey’s "Third Annual L.A. Weekly Biennial" at Track 16 Gallery.
24. Januar 2008
Gateway to Nowhere
Ben Davis
Do-Ho Suh’s
Reflection
and art’s power to forget.
23. Januar 2008
Torrid Allegory
Paul Jeromack
Old Masters at Christie’s New York.
18. Januar 2008
Cut and Paste
Charlie Finch
"Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
17. Januar 2008
Repetitive Stress
Charlie Finch
Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.
14. Januar 2008
Pennmanship
Charlie Finch
Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.
11. Januar 2008
Commerce and Consciousness
Ben Davis
The year in "complicit esthetics."
11. Januar 2008
Ray of Light
Ben Street
Rediscovering Anthony McCall’s
Line Describing a Cone
.
10. Januar 2008
Paris Aflicker
Sarah Canner
Paris galleries were aflicker with the pale light of moving pictures.
9. Januar 2008
Naval Gazing
Charlie Finch
Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."
9. Januar 2008
The Triumph of theBig D
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
"Pattern and Decoration" painting returns, in two museum exhibitions.
7. Januar 2008
Beijing Contemporary
Lee Ambrozy
The new Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts in Beijing.
2007
Dezember
29. Dezember 2007
The Ashes of Charisma
Charlie Finch
Contemporary artists and their pretensions.
28. Dezember 2007
War and Sex
Michèle C. Cone
Patriotism, propaganda and passion at Exit Art
20. Dezember 2007
Artnet Design - Dec. 07
Brook S. Mason
Marcus Tremonto, gallery bling, Robert M. Kulicke and Bessie Jamieson, Armand Rateau, Tony Duquette, more.
18. Dezember 2007
No gay Gods?
Abigail Esman
Artist Sooreh Hera’s photographs prompt controversy in the Hague.
6. Dezember 2007
Miami En Garde
Walter Robinson
Art Basel Miami Beach, Flow, Joe’s Stone Crab, etc.
4. Dezember 2007
Western Promises
Ben Davis
Piotr Uklanski’s ""Western""
Summer Love
3. Dezember 2007
CAN YOU DIG IT?
Jerry Saltz
At Gavin Brown, Urs Fischer takes a jackhammer to Chelsea itself.
November
30. November 2007
EVE OF DESTRUCTION
Charlie Finch
Employing entropy in the world of art.
29. November 2007
PARIS IN THE FALL
Michèle C. Cone
"The Third Mind" at the Palais de Tokyo, the new Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Diaspora, Alexander Ponomarev, more.
28. November 2007
Watts Up
Charlie Finch
Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.
27. November 2007
New Lives for Old
Jane Harris
NEW LIVES FOR OLD by Jane Harris. Surviving Wooloo Productions’ „Life Exchange“
27. November 2007
San Francisco Happenings 07
Brian Andrews
Olafur Elaisson, Douglas Gordon, Takeshi Murata, Will Rogan, Tracy Timman, Liz Walsh, Tony Labat, Nathan Redwood, more.
27. November 2007
The Uncuratorial Curator
Ilka Scobie
An interview with New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni
26. November 2007
Where Are All the Women?
Jerry Saltz
On MoMA’s identity politics.
20. November 2007
Sweetness is Light
Julia Morton
Both a prayer and a near-curse, the phrase "Sweet Jesus" is made literal by the artist Cosimo Cavallaro in his first exhibition at the Proposition Gallery, titled "Chocolate Saints. . . Sweet Jesus" Oct. 27-Nov. 24, 2007.
20. November 2007
The Carnival Stops for a Gray Day
Charlie Finch
Minimalism lives in a converted factory in a Hudson River mill town.
19. November 2007
Disaster Team
Ben Davis
1 + 1 does not equal 2 in Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant’s "Cast No Shadow."
16. November 2007
Guy Smiley
Ben Davis
Yue Minjun, human logo.
15. November 2007
Art Market Watch - SOTHEBY’S CATCHES FIRE
$316 million at Sotheby’s contemporary sale
15. November 2007
Artnet Design - SOTTSASS AT FRIEDMAN BENDA
Line Vautrin, Maid Bar in L.A., Calder jewelry in Palm Beach, "Re:Construction," more.
14. November 2007
Art Market Watch - BLAST OFF AT CHRISTIE’S
Blast off at Christie’s post-war and contemporary sale.
14. November 2007
Eye Candy v. Hard Candy
Julia Morton
Whitney Museum curator Shamim Momin talks the talk.
13. November 2007
An Explosion of Color, in Black and White
Jerry Saltz
Kara Walker’s silhouettes don’t just broach America’s touchiest subject they detonate it.
9. November 2007
© Murakami
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Takashi Murakami’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
8. November 2007
Art Market Watch - Nov. 2007
Stewart Waltzer
Christie’s "Impressionist and Modern Art" evening sale, Nov. 6, 2007.
8. November 2007
Art Market Watch - November 07
Stewart Waltzer
Sotheby’s New York evening sale of Impressionist and modern art, Nov. 7, 2007
8. November 2007
Peculiar Institutions
Charlie Finch
Remembering galleries of times past.
2. November 2007
Black Box
Charlie Finch
Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.
Oktober
31. Oktober 2007
Undone at Altria
Leah Modigliani
The Whitney Museum bids farewell to its Altria branch with a show about "unraveling"
26. Oktober 2007
A NOT-SO-VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY
Charlie Finch
The art blogs and their nonexistent readers.
26. Oktober 2007
LONDON CALLING
Joe La Placa
During "Frieze Week" in London, the Zoo Art Fair was the most exciting venue for new art.
25. Oktober 2007
A SHOEBOX SHOW
Charlie Finch
Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.
23. Oktober 2007
Artnet News - October 2007
Gagosian in Moscow, Pelosi at antiques show, Oppenheim in L.A., Castelli in the Smithsonian, more. Plus, R.B. Kitaj, R.I.P.
23. Oktober 2007
I Am Stoned (Are You Stoned?)
Charlie Finch
The secret Conceptual Art techniques of Lawrence Weiner.
22. Oktober 2007
The Elephant in the Room
Jerry Saltz
Why you should give a crap about Chris Ofili’s new paintings.
19. Oktober 2007
Diary of an Art Star - art school
Reverend Jen
Back to School special: Reverend Jen’s Art Tips for Boys and Girls.
19. Oktober 2007
Force of Culture
N.F. Karlins
Hidden depths in the drawings of Domenico Zindato.
18. Oktober 2007
China Dollars
Charlie Finch
What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?
17. Oktober 2007
Capital Roundup Oct. 07
Sidney Lawrence
Renée Stout, Chuck Close tapestries, Jiha Moon, Ian Whitmore, Olga Viso, Jane Jerardi, Nathan Baker, more.
16. Oktober 2007
Popular Paintings
Charlie Finch
"XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.
15. Oktober 2007
Anarchy in the U.K.
Emilie Trice
Zak Smith brings his politics and porn to London.
15. Oktober 2007
Los Angeles Cool
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Three shows prove that Los Angeles art was hot in the 1960s.
9. Oktober 2007
Art inflames
Charlie Finch
Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.
5. Oktober 2007
VOLUNTEER SLAVERY
Charlie Finch
Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.
3. Oktober 2007
Sharpshooter
Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
He’s back: Willoughby Sharp in performance.
2. Oktober 2007
WHY ARE THE GRINGOS IN COLOMBIA?
Steve Mumford
Stories from the Baghdad 28th Combat Support Hospital.
September
25. September 2007
Appetite for Destruction
Brian Skar
The 1st Athens Biennial, "Her(his)tory" and "Re-Map KM" in Athens.
25. September 2007
From A to Z
Phyllis Tuchman
"All the More Real" at the Parrish Art Museum.
24. September 2007
How to Rebuild the Guggenheim
Jerry Saltz
Trying to take the "heim" out of the Guggenheim.
21. September 2007
Frankinscense
Charlie Finch
Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.
20. September 2007
Shconsumer Shconfidence
Summer Kumar
A promising start for ShContemporary, the new Shanghai art fair.
19. September 2007
Weekend Update - Sept. 07
Walter Robinson
Sol LeWitt, Huma Bhabha, Arlene Shechet, more.
17. September 2007
The Machine Self and Squiggle Game
Donald Kuspit
Rebecca Horn’s performance of her body ego
August
24. August 2007
Art Class
Ben Davis
Marx, "a new theory of the art market," art and politics
23. August 2007
Art Opportunities
Charlie Finch
A change in market values means a change in art values.
22. August 2007
Shcontemporary Preview
Lee Ambrozy
The new art fair in Shanghai hopes to steal Beijing’s crown as capital of Chinese contemporary art.
20. August 2007
The Trouble with Youth
Donald Kuspit
The adolescent avant-garde versus the new Old Masters.
17. August 2007
How He Paints His Masterpiece
Charlie Finch
Waiting for Bob Dylan’s painting exhibition.
16. August 2007
Joe Lewis: Clairvoyance
Walter Robinson
From the Bronx to Chelsea, via pictoralism, minimalism and deconstruction.
15. August 2007
Getting Intimate at Yale
N.F. Karlins
Tokens of love and respect from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana.
15. August 2007
The Minute
Abraham Orden
Banks Violette, Dash Snow and Dan Colen, group show highlights, more.
10. August 2007
1
=
1000
Nataline Colonnello
Ai WeiWei’s dreams of individuality and conincidence.
Juli
25. Juli 2007
Welcome to Quadriceptica II
Lisa-Evelyn Radish
Promise and perplexity at the second edition of the quadrennial Rjamuszian exhibition.
23. Juli 2007
Theremy
Charlie Finch
Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
20. Juli 2007
Globalized Feminism
Ben Davis
Can Miwa Yanagi dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools?
19. Juli 2007
A World without Warhols
Charlie Finch
With Andy, the "authenticity" issue is absurd.
17. Juli 2007
Reply to Storr
Ben Davis
The Venice Biennale, Africa and the "borrowed kettle."
17. Juli 2007
The Alchemy of Curating
Jerry Saltz
Examining the 52nd Venice Biennale, Documenta XII and Sculpture Projects Münster.
16. Juli 2007
Hyping Serra
Donald Kuspit
Is Richard Serra’s sculpture the Titanic of avant-garde abstraction?
9. Juli 2007
Weekend Update
Walter Robinson
More on Robert Storr’s "thinking with the senses, seeing with the mind"
5. Juli 2007
Form Thing
Charlie Finch
The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center
Juni
29. Juni 2007
Biennale without Barriers
Lavinia Filippi
An interview with Robert Storr, director of the international exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale
26. Juni 2007
The Truth about Germany
Donald Kuspit
Neo-Rauch’s dialectical fables.
25. Juni 2007
What Art Says about Money
Charlie Finch
The love call of currency.
18. Juni 2007
Art Capital
Walter Robinson
The market triumphs at Art 38 Basel
15. Juni 2007
Lost in Space
Walter Robinson
Documenta 12 roams the globe and finds. . . what?
13. Juni 2007
Damien Hirst Jumps the Shark
Charlie Finch
The YBA star flogs a $100-million diamond skull.
13. Juni 2007
L.A. Confidential 2007
Emma Gray
"Eden’s Edge" and "Sans Soleil" on the future of Los Angeles.
12. Juni 2007
Believe It
Joe La Placa
Hirst on the market, museums, his heroes and the $100-million skull.
12. Juni 2007
Orwell on Dali
Charlie Finch
Is artistic freedom morally neutral?
11. Juni 2007
Art Dealer’s Diary 24. Week
Kenny Schachter
The pleasures and pitfalls of design art at Design Miami/Basel.
11. Juni 2007
Caccia Al Tesoro
Walter Robinson
The art-lover’s "treasure hunt" during the Venice Biennale 2007.
10. Juni 2007
China Summer
Summer Kumar
A dissected brontosaurus in Beijing, deserted amusement parks in Shanghai.
5. Juni 2007
Artnet Design
Brook S. Mason
Prouve’s Maison Tropicale sold, a "pot dealer" in New York, International Ceramics Fair, more.
3. Juni 2007
Light Touch
Ben Street
Paul Chan’s epic, fantastical animations at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Mai
29. Mai 2007
Memories of Past Time
Adrian Dannatt
Painter Duncan Hannah summons a specifically English esthetic.
21. Mai 2007
It’s Boring at the Top
Jerry Saltz
Is Andreas Gursky, the highest-priced photographer alive, running out of ideas
21. Mai 2007
Weekend Update
Walter Robinson
Marc Quinn, Tony Cragg, Damián Ortega, Roxy Paine, Mr., Betty Tompkins, Markus Lüpertz, Darby Bannard, more.
18. Mai 2007
Art Market Watch - Mai 2007
Contemporary at Phillips, de Pury & Co., plus day sale results at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
18. Mai 2007
Artnet News - Mai 2007
An update on the controversy surrounding the Sindika Dokolo collection.
17. Mai 2007
Remembering Jonathan
Charlie Finch
A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.
16. Mai 2007
Hollow Laugher
Ben Davis
David Godbold answers the question: Why isn’t postmodern art funnier?
15. Mai 2007
Same River Twice
Jerry Saltz
Rirkrit Tiravanija makes dinner for gallerygoers. Plus, Gordon Matta-Clark.
11. Mai 2007
Pinault and Co.
Ben Davis
A glorious romance with power in "Sequence 1" at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice
7. Mai 2007
The Minute
Abraham Orden
Dana Schutz, Josh Smith, Hannah Van Bart, Katharina Wulff, Shana Moulton, Liz Deschenes, Sterling Ruby, more.
5. Mai 2007
Whatever Happened to David Rockefeller
Charlie Finch
Mark Rothko’s
White Center
(1950) hits the auction block.
4. Mai 2007
Murakami and the Murphys
Charlie Finch
Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.
4. Mai 2007
The Aura of Timelessness
Donald Kuspit
Desert images by Mel Pekarsky and Berber portrait photographs by Lazhar Mansouri.
3. Mai 2007
FEMALE TROUBLES
Michèle C. Cone
"Global Feminisms" is a Tsunami-sized wave of distress signals.
April
30. April 2007
NOT BUYING IT
Jerry Saltz
If "Not for Sale" tells us anything, it's that P.S.1 needs to make some changes.
25. April 2007
STREET SHOTS
Paul H-O
Dona Ann McAdams and the performance of self in everyday life.
23. April 2007
Get Me a Brush, Stat!
Jerry Saltz
"High Times, Hard Times" catches a moment when the New York art world thought painting was dead and took heroic measures to revive it.
18. April 2007
Chinese Artists at a Crossroads
Stacey Duff
In China bestimmen die Künstler das Geschäft. Warum das so ist und warum ihre Stärke auch ihre Schwäche ist, weiß Stacey Duff.
März
23. März 2007
PUSSY POWER
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
16. März 2007
Weekend Update - March 07
Walter Robinson
Arnold Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Robert Ryman, Karin Davies, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Odd Nerdrum, more.
16. März 2007
You Light Up My Life
Jerry Saltz
Art market darling Terence Koh dances with skeletons and brightens the Whitney lobby. Plus, Terence Koh.
14. März 2007
Artnet News - March 2007
Last fall, when Oxford University Press was putting the finishing touches on its newest art reference, the 800-page Oxford Companion to the Photograph, its designers cast about for a suitable cover image before selecting a black-and-white photograph of what else? a pensive brunette wearing nothing more than some fishnets and a frilly umbrella.
13. März 2007
Hardcore
Jerry Saltz
Charline von Heyl’s painting is a snake pit of styles
12. März 2007
WHITE WALLS,GLASS CEILING
Ben Davis
Why are there so many great women artists who can’t get a show?
Februar
23. Februar 2007
Art and Corruption in Venice
Ben Davis
Questions surround the patron behind the Venice Biennale’s African exhibition.
23. Februar 2007
Christie’s goes for gallery gold
Walter Robinson
A wild ride upwards at Sotheby’s and Christie’s London sales.
23. Februar 2007
Disapearing Acts
Charlie Finch
What’s new in Artland.
21. Februar 2007
New York City, international art fairs
Walter Robinson
Always a hot spot for art lovers, New York City reached quantum art mass during Feb. 22-26, 2007.
19. Februar 2007
The "It" Factor
Walter Robinson
What makes something hot? Is mojo something more that a contact high? Is that buzz something other than the faint rustle of money?.
Januar
22. Januar 2007
Pictures at an Execution
Jerry Saltz
MoMA’s "Manet and the Execution of Maximilian" and the Met’s "Glitter and Doom" illuminate history’s darkest corners.
22. Januar 2007
The Windy Apple
Abraham Orden
Jay Heikes, Josh Smith, Gavin Turk, Mel Bochner, Philip Vanderhyden, Matt Stole, Leslie Baum, Melanie Schiff, Deb Sokolow and Mitzi Pederson.
19. Januar 2007
Decorative Arts Diary - Jan. 06
Brook S. Mason
A pumped-up Americana market at the Winter Antiques Show and more.
19. Januar 2007
Weekend Update - Jan. 07
Walter Robinson
Terence Koh, Kembra Pfahler, Bambi the Mermaid, Joe Ovelman, Tony Matelli, Paulina Olowska, Carrie Moyer, Robert Chambers, more.
12. Januar 2007
Hotbed Berlin
Ana Finel Honigman
Berlin is now Europe's hottest art city - an affordable and liveable place that enables artists to produce and present some of the most challenging work to be seen anywhere.
11. Januar 2007
Fountain of Youth
Kimberly Bradley
Berlin’s Brunnenstrasse bubbles with new galleries and (very) young art.
10. Januar 2007
The Mysterious Mr. Slomovic
David D’Arcy
How did a young Yugoslav end up with hundreds of artworks from the collection of French art dealer Ambroise Vollard?
10. Januar 2007
Two Thieves
Charlie Finch
The bohemian and the ubercollector.
5. Januar 2007
Sexual Mores
Michèle C. Cone
William Hogarth and the plight of women, both rich and poor.
2. Januar 2007
The Way We Were
Charlie Finch
Remembering art as a part of life.
2006
Dezember
21. Dezember 2006
Decorative Arts Diary - Dec. 06
Brook S. Mason
Last minute shopping for 2006, and looking ahead to 2007.
18. Dezember 2006
Allan Stone
Oriane Stender
Remembering the pioneering New York art dealer.
18. Dezember 2006
Currin Events
Jerry Saltz
John Currin’s money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism and the inner life of paintings. Plus, Gregory Crewdson.
18. Dezember 2006
Provocative Realism
Donald Kuspit
New Objectivist portraiture in "Glitter and Doom" at the Metropolitan Museum.
18. Dezember 2006
Select, Don’t Settle
Charlie Finch
Passing some time in New Haven.
15. Dezember 2006
The New York List
Walter Robinson
As the year rushes to a close, a few art-world issues and other things that linger on the mind this week.
14. Dezember 2006
More on Miami
Ben Davis, Walter Robinson
A report on the Ink, Flow, Bridge, Aqua, DiVA, Pulse, NADA, Photo Miami and Scope art fairs.
13. Dezember 2006
Book Report
Walter Robinson
Notable new titles, in time for the gift-giving season.
8. Dezember 2006
Miami Heat
Walter Robinson
The art business swings for the fences at Art Basel Miami Beach.
7. Dezember 2006
Aura Photography
Ilka Scobie
Patti Smith finds poetry in the Polaroid.
7. Dezember 2006
Black Site Specific
Ben Davis
Angela Strassheim’s tortured photos of suburbia.
6. Dezember 2006
Season of Passion
Kay Itoi
An interview with Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura about his new work.
6. Dezember 2006
Tanigushi’s Revenge
Charlie Finch
The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.
4. Dezember 2006
Space Odysseys
Jerry Saltz
Imagining the future for two great institutions: Dia and the New Museum. Plus, Marilyn Minter.
1. Dezember 2006
Miami Art Extra
Walter Robinson
A list of things to do in Miami, besides go to the beach.
1. Dezember 2006
Picking and Choosing at Dia Beacon
Charlie Finch
Minimalism lives in a converted factory in a Hudson River mill town.
November
29. November 2006
Solar Buzz
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Actor and artist Robert Dean Stockwell talks about his art and his life.
28. November 2006
Artnet News - November 2006
Walter Robinson
Whitney to Chelsea, Sao Paulo in pix, Michael Asher in Santa Monica,
Factory Girl
trailer, more.
28. November 2006
Hell Bent
Jerry Saltz
Tamy Ben-Tor’s Dostoyevskian gallery of contemporary lost souls, louts, louses and ignoramuses
28. November 2006
The Mod Mod Met
Julia Morton
Is Gary Tinterow moving the Metropolitan Museum into the 21st century?
Oktober
26. Oktober 2006
Botero’s Humanism
Donald Kuspit
Fernando Botero’s paintings of Abu Ghraib.
25. Oktober 2006
In Memoriam: Karel Appel
Carlo McCormick
Remembering the celebrated Dutch expressionist.
24. Oktober 2006
Artnet News - Oct. 2006
Basquiat in Puerto Rico, trouble for Blue Noses, Michelangelo in China, Marden v. Katz, more.
24. Oktober 2006
Cultural Karaoke
Ben Davis
Nikki S. Lee’s "conceptual documentary"
A.K.A. Nikki S. Lee
24. Oktober 2006
Naughty films, Prissy Art
Michèle C. Cone
Titillating the masses in the early 20th century.
23. Oktober 2006
The Lost Sculpture
Phyllis Tuchman
A 20th-anniversary appreciation of the sculpture garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
23. Oktober 2006
The Undead of Art History
Jerry Saltz
Dasha Shishkin’s melancholic world. Plus, emerging artists at Socrates Sculpture Park.
19. Oktober 2006
Artnet News - Oktober 2006
Martin Creed in San Juan, Jackson Pollock in Wisconsin, Nan Kempner at the Met, more. Plus, Marcia Tucker, RIP.
12. Oktober 2006
Culture and Resistance
P.C. Smith
Photojournalist Jonathan Moller documents genocide and reconciliation in Guatemala.
2. Oktober 2006
Where the Girls Aren't
Jerry Saltz
In the art world, the prime real estate is still a men's club. Plus, Catherine Opie.
September
28. September 2006
Picasso the Conservative
Charlie Finch
Taking apart the Met chief’s latest pronouncements.
26. September 2006
Weekend Update - Sept. 06
Walter Robinson
Beauty, uptown and in Chelsea, plus more.
25. September 2006
Take Some Off the Table
Richard Polsky
A review of the overheated contemporary art market, September 2006.
22. September 2006
Decorative Arts Diary - Sept. 06
Brook S. Mason
Lavish, Marie Antoinette-like consumerism at the Biennale des Antiquaires.
19. September 2006
The Failure of De Montebello
Charlie Finch
Taking apart the Met chief’s latest pronouncements.
18. September 2006
The Tempest
Jerry Saltz
Jackson Pollock’s acts of esthetic desperation. Plus, Stuart Hawkins.
11. September 2006
Pools of Wonder
Charlie Finch
Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.
8. September 2006
The Whole Ball of Wax
Jerry Saltz
Can Art Change the World? A Holistic Theory
8. September 2006
Uniquely Singapore
Walter Robinson
The first Singapore Biennale puts the island-nation on the art map.
7. September 2006
Death on the Installment
Ilka Scobie
From Bomber Harris to Lefrak City with artist Adam McEwen.
6. September 2006
Orchard Underground
Mary Rinebold
Miguel Abreu makes an art space on the Lower East Side.
5. September 2006
Playing It Straight
Jerry Saltz
Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern. Plus, the fall season begins.
5. September 2006
Sarajevo Art Diary
Molly Kleiman
Contemporary art in Sarajevo copes with the legacy of civil war.
August
28. August 2006
Diary of an Art Star - Opportunities
Reverend Jen
Making an art video starring Moby and Reverend Jen Junior, a chihuahua.
17. August 2006
Rancière, for Dummies
Ben Davis
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière.
16. August 2006
Girodet's Sensationalism
Donald Kuspit
Charismatic rebel or kitsch romantic? Populism, eroticism and revolution in David’s greatest student.
10. August 2006
Down Tempo
Ben Davis
The hidden history of the Bauhaus in Marianne Brandt’s photomontages.
7. August 2006
A Quirky Collector
Charlie Finch
Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.
1. August 2006
Changing the void
Anna Altman
In Berlin each change is not an alteration but an addition that fills an empty space in this city’s landscape. This unfinished quality, still apparent even sixteen years after the Wall fell, is what makes Berlin such a fertile space for artists and gallerists.
1. August 2006
Feet of Clay
Charlie Finch
Since when does money create masterpieces?
1. August 2006
Hot Spot Berlin
Belinda Grace Gardner
Germany’s capital has become the epicenter of the international art scene.
Juli
31. Juli 2006
Remembering Arno Breker
Michèle C. Cone
My visit with Hitler’s favorite sculptor.
27. Juli 2006
Artnet News - July 2006
Galerie Sfeir-Semler in Beirut. Plus, lots of blocks from Herzog & de Meuron,
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
, Hillary at the Museum of Sex, more.
26. Juli 2006
Art Dealer’s Diary 30. Week
Kenny Schachter
Forget the art fairs, give me the British International Motor Show.
23. Juli 2006
L.A. Confidential 2006
Emma Gray
David Hockney, Joel Mesler, Thomas Zipp, Stephen Hull, Nu Nguyen, Frances Stark, more.
21. Juli 2006
The Scene Changes
Peter Plagens
Jed Perl’s
New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century
19. Juli 2006
Scope Hampered?
Ben Davis
The second go-round for the Scope franchise in the Hamptons.
19. Juli 2006
Scope Hampered?
Ben Davis
Isa Genzken, Germany’s 2007 German pick for the Venice Biennial, at Neugerriemschneider in Berlin
14. Juli 2006
Babes in Loyland
Charlie Finch
German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.
13. Juli 2006
Shanghai Nights
Summer Block
The booming art world of China’s financial capital.
12. Juli 2006
Irreverent Truths
Gorgon
Gorgon
11. Juli 2006
Report from Osaka
Kay Itoi
Tokyo galleries on the move (again!)
10. Juli 2006
A Beautiful Mind
Phyllis Tuchman
Frank Stella’s breakthrough year.
5. Juli 2006
The Sublime is Us
Jerry Saltz
In new work by Klara Liden, the unfathomable feelings of being alive. Plus, Justin Lowe.
Juni
29. Juni 2006
Bomb-a-Rama
Paul Jeromack
A look back at the auction fiasco of 2006.
13. Juni 2006
Hello Moscow
Walter Robinson
Art Moscow and the flourishing Russian art market.
9. Juni 2006
The Big Picture
Artnet Artists’ Works Catalogues provide an important new online resource.
8. Juni 2006
Whatever Happened to Douglas Gordon
Charlie Finch
There once was a man from the Highlands...
5. Juni 2006
Manifesta No More
Augustine Zenakos
Real-world politics dooms the ambitious plans to mount Manifesta 6 in the divided capital city of Nicosia, Cyprus.
2. Juni 2006
Mirror Dancer
Vivian Gordon
Stephen Posen draws a total environment at the Drawing Center.
Mai
16. Mai 2006
Klee in America
Dena Shottenkirk
"Klee and America" at the Neue Galerie in New York.
16. Mai 2006
Through the Looking Glass
Kathryn Garcia
Delia & Gavin, "Ceremonies of Consummation," May 4-June 24, 2006, at Peres Projects, 969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, Ca. 90012
4. Mai 2006
Fresh as Tomorrow: Alex Katz in the ‘60s
Donald Kuspit
Alex Katz, "The Sixties," Apr. 27-June 17, 2006, at PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10011
2. Mai 2006
Sale Away
Jerry Saltz
Couldn’t six Texas millionaires chip in and buy a group of Judds? Plus, Alex McQuilkin.
April
26. April 2006
GYPSY
Jerry Saltz
Amy Sillman, a nervy painter who loves mid-century abstraction.
24. April 2006
DIAS DE LOS MUERTOS
Kathryn Garcia
Enrique Metinides’ death-obsessed photos of Mexico City come to L.A.
21. April 2006
THIRTEEN UNEASY PIECES
Ben Davis
The Chinese gold rush at P.S.1’s "The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now."
21. April 2006
Twilight of the Teen Idols
Ben Davis
Masturbating jocks and cheerleaders at Cynthia Broan.
12. April 2006
Collecting Celebrity Art
Baird Jones
I have spent over $1 million on my celebrity art collection, buying works by everyone from Bob Dylan to James Dean. Some of these objets d’art were made as afterthoughts, done as scribbled drawings in the margins of a celebrity autograph. Others are legitimate artworks made by celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash, who despite their accomplishments in their respective fields still turned to fine art to establish their true creativity.
11. April 2006
The Unbearable Lightness of Barney
Ben Davis
Drawing Restraint 9
is a hoot.
6. April 2006
YOUTH APPEAL
Despina Zefkili
"Panic Room" at the Deste Foundation in Athens.
3. April 2006
Heaps and Consequences
Jerry Saltz
Tara Donovan’s undulating, otherworldly river valley. Plus, Judith Linhares.
März
27. März 2006
Queen of Night
Jerry Saltz
Kara Walker’s language of tattered words and shadow plays. Plus, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.
27. März 2006
Whitney Biennial v. Everglades
Charlie Finch
Where rules must be observed to stay alive.
21. März 2006
Blogging the Armory
Max Henry
Day by day during art fair week in New York
14. März 2006
Unstable Nudity
Donald Kuspit
Robert Graham’s new nudes have a nonconformist primordiality.
13. März 2006
HARDCORE
Jerry Saltz
Charline von Heyl’s painting is a snake pit of styles.
10. März 2006
The Armory Bowl
Ben Davis
Reading the semiotics of the Armory Show 2006, Mar. 9-13, 2006.
3. März 2006
Stop the Insanity!
Charlie Finch
Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.
2. März 2006
Biennial in Babylon
Jerry Saltz
The "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night" is lively, brainy and self-conscious. Plus, Kelley Walker.
2. März 2006
Labeling the Whitney
Ben Davis
The art of text at the Whitney Biennial 2006
Februar
28. Februar 2006
Who Can Forget Ultra Violet?
Michèle C. Cone
The life and work of an Andy Warhol superstar.
27. Februar 2006
Idol Thoughts
Jerry Saltz
The glory of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking "moneybags piss pot."
24. Februar 2006
LOOK AGAIN
Ben Davis
Photography in New York the AIPAD photo show, Tracey Moffatt, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Christopher Williams and Florian Maier-Aichen.
22. Februar 2006
Perils of Publishing
John A. Walker
A memoir of the late British artist John Latham, who destroyed books as his art form.
21. Februar 2006
What to Look for in the Whitney Biennial
Carlo McCormick
Downtown art critic and curator Carlo McCormick gives an advance tour of the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
14. Februar 2006
Interrogation Nation
Jerry Saltz
Walid Raad makes art that is like a communiqué from a secret agent. Plus shows by Joe Zucker and Sally Smart.
13. Februar 2006
Arte Fiera 2006
Joe La Placa
Do Italian artists need a new manifesto for the 21st century?
10. Februar 2006
Arco at 25
Walter Robinson
More than 275 galleries from 35 countries at the celebrated Spanish art fair.
9. Februar 2006
Return Fire
Ben Davis
New images of art from Iraq in New York.
2. Februar 2006
Corporeal
Ilka Scobie
A survey of photography by feminist performance art pioneer Carolee Schneemann.
Januar
27. Januar 2006
Art Market Watch - January 2006
Americana, Old Masters, more, at January auctions in New York
25. Januar 2006
Master Dealer
Lisa Zeitz
A profile of collector, author and Old Master dealer Richard L. Feigen
25. Januar 2006
Whitney Watch
Ben Davis
Whitney Biennial curators past and present talk around the 2006 installment.
24. Januar 2006
Technical Knock-outs
Ben Davis
Dorkbot, "Breaking and Entering" at PaceWildenstein, "Superlowrez" at vertexList, "Dewanatron" at Pierogi
13. Januar 2006
Treasure Island
N.F. Karlins
"The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" at the New York Public Library
12. Januar 2006
Predictions for 2006
Peering into the art-world’s crystal ball, Artnet asked a number of artists, curators, dealers and other art professionals for their predictions for 2006.
12. Januar 2006
Reconstruction Zone
Jerry Saltz
Ted Riederer’s quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable. Plus, Stephen Shore.
12. Januar 2006
Wither Williamsburg?
Stephen Maine
An artists' neighborhood confronts the prospect of gentrification.
11. Januar 2006
Our Picasso?
Jerry Saltz
Robert Rauschenberg draws a line in the psychic sands of American sexual and cultural values.
6. Januar 2006
Report from Tokyo
Kay Itoi
Tokyo galleries on the move (again!)
3. Januar 2006
Postmodern Systematics
Charlie Finch
Touchstones in the pseudoreligion of contemporary art.
2005
Dezember
16. Dezember 2005
Pop Life
Ben Davis
0100101110101101.ORG proves Europe kicks butt.
7. Dezember 2005
Clusterfuck Esthetics
Jerry Saltz
A manic-depressive panic attack in the face of profound information overload.
6. Dezember 2005
MAGIC OF THE MUNDANE
Paul Jeromack
"Memling’s Portraits," Oct. 12-Dec. 31, 2005, at the Frick Collection.
5. Dezember 2005
Miami Heat
Walter Robinson
Soup to nuts at Art Basel Miami Beach
November
16. November 2005
Mr. Systemand Mr. Death
Jerry Saltz
Luc Tuymans renders everything through the same shadowy scrim. Plus, Laleh Khorramian, Sergej Jensen
16. November 2005
One Year After
Jerry Saltz
Is the Museum of Modern Art becoming a madman who thinks it is king?
6. November 2005
Shamesless and Unashamed
Donald Kuspit
Digital art is grounded in codes rather than images.
Oktober
25. Oktober 2005
Relentless Tempest
Jerry Saltz
Elizabeth Murray’s distinctive place in American art. Plus, new work by Ludwig Schwarz and Claire Fontaine.
21. Oktober 2005
Lost Woman
Victor M. Cassidy
Northwestern’s Block Museum brings architect Marion Mahony Griffin back into the light.
21. Oktober 2005
The Art Trip
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Curator Paul Schimmel’s "Ecstasy" brings contemporary art back to where it belongs.
14. Oktober 2005
Inside the London Art Market
Joe La Placa
London has become the most dynamic city in today’s global art market.
September
19. September 2005
The Battle for Babylon
Jerry Saltz
More artists, gallerists and curators are taking matters into their own hands in New York
11. September 2005
9/11 Art as a Gloss on Wittgenstein
Arthur C. Danto
Four years after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
August
30. August 2005
Land of Ancient Tattoos
N.F. Karlins
"Art of the Marquesas Islands" at the Metropolitan Museum
24. August 2005
Art Market Guide 2005
Richard Polsky
German artist Anselm Kiefer is contemporary master and a "buy."
18. August 2005
Ms. Cardiff Goes to Washington
Sidney Lawrence
The Hirshhorn Museum commissions a new sound piece from Janet Cardiff.
17. August 2005
Signs of the Times
Ben Davis
Steve Powers and the Dreamland Artist Club at Coney Island.
12. August 2005
Monaco, Africa
Carlo McCormick
The Grimaldi Forum’s tribute to the "Arts of Africa"
10. August 2005
Art Market Guide 2005
Richard Polsky
No one collects Richard Tuttle with an eye on getting rich.
5. August 2005
The Matrix of Sensations
Donald Kuspit
Digital art is grounded in codes rather than images.
2. August 2005
ULTRA-VIOLETTE
Ben Davis
Banks Violette rocks the Whitney.
Juli
12. Juli 2005
Letter Love
Ben Davis
I've got a little, make that a big, problem with contemporary art auctions.
8. Juli 2005
Art Market Watch - Juli 2005
Walter Robinson
Old Masters in London, plus a comment for the ages.
Juni
20. Juni 2005
Anal-Retentive Warrior Princess
Jerry Saltz
Sarah Sze's magical, maniacal ways of looking at structure and space.
7. Juni 2005
Irreverent Truths
Gorgon
The spectacle of art and money, happily married.
Mai
30. Mai 2005
Hammered
Jerry Saltz
I've got a little, make that a big, problem with contemporary art auctions.
23. Mai 2005
Art Market Watch - Mai 05
Walter Robinson
Results for American painting sales, Versace, contemporary day sales, more.
11. Mai 2005
Art Market Watch - Mai 2005
Walter Robinson
The International Fine Art Fair 2005.
9. Mai 2005
Art Market Guide 2005
Richard Polsky
Signs of stability in the spring contemporary art sales in New York.
5. Mai 2005
Art Market Watch - Mai 2005
Stewart Waltzer
New York photo sales, spring 2005.
4. Mai 2005
Art Market Watch - Mai 05
Stewart Waltzer
An art-market slowdown at Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern sale.
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