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.
2010
Dezember
Anselm Kiefer’s "Next Year in Jerusalem.&quo
November
On MoMA’s women, auction madness and George W. Bush’s official portrait.
An interview with John Currin
On conflict of interest, being shy and the New Museum.
Paula Hayes, Pop art, Romare Bearden and "OnLine."
Conflict and fragmentation in Louise Bourgeois’ depiction of the female body.
Bad art dealers, big spaces in the U.S., and managing a critic’s schedule.
Oktober
The artificial exotica of British artist Mat Collishaw.
Where’s Damien? Plus, notes on Frieze, the best vid in NYC and Gordon Onslow Ford.
Patricia Piccinini’s sci-fi sculptures test our humanity.
Long-lost images of the Spanish Civil War come to light at the International Center for Photography.
Sexual communion - and community - in A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns’ film Community Action Center.
A new feature: Critic Jerry Saltz answers his reader’s questions on elitism, careerism and cronyism.
September
An interview with English sculptor Nick Hornby.
Dan Colen is making 2007 art in 2010.
Chilean video artist Gianfranco Foschino captures visual joy in poverty.
Rob Pruitt at GBE and Maccarone galleries, and Gene Beery at Algus Greenspon.
Rosie Rebel, Cody Critcheloe, Peggy Noland, and cow as the new black.
David LaChapelle, Michael Jackson and the Catholic Church.
Buddhas and deities at the Rubin Museum of Art.
Dan Cameron on art in New Orleans after the Gulf oil spill.
August
Spessi, Eggert Johanesson, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Friederike von Rauch, David Byrne, Fridgeir Helgason, Ragnar Axelsson, more.
Exploring Afghanistan’s painting heritage.
An interview with German video artist Gabriele Stellbaum.
The camera as peeper in "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870."
Babette Mangolte’s Minimalist photographs and films.
Sean Mellyn’s "Paper Monet" at APF Lab.
Rupert Goldsworthy’s paintings take the pulse of Berlin’s social spectacle.
Looking forward to looking back.
Juli
Jack Pierson’s exotic souvenirs at Bortolami Gallery.
Forty years of film art from Michel Auder - by turns glamorous, lyrical and seedy.
Leo Castelli’s first steps in the art world: a "Surrealist" event in Paris in ’39.
Dramatically direct and emotionally honest, Young’s paintings are tears in the social fabric.
The MoMA director gives a "Tim Burtonesque" overview of his museum.
Forget about Turner & the Getty, the real fun belongs to Frans Francken.
Time to restate Mike Bidlo’s series of "Not Picassos."
Brion Gysin, pursuing the Other, on a cloud of smoke, into his own mind.
"Pure Beauty" at LACMA shows John Baldessari to be "moral, responsible."
Juni
The megarich may halt their buying.
On Rafael Ferrer and Charles Burchfield.
Striving for social consciousness in the 6th edition of the Berlin Biennale.
David and Lee Ann Lester debut their new London International Fine Art Fair.
Vija Celmins artful somethings spun from nothings.
Shepard Fairey’s missed opportunity.
Artists must lead the fight against corporate propaganda.
The art of the Tea Party movement.
The enduring effects of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present.
Let’s get old-school at Breuer’s Big Brute this July.
Mai
May 2010 issues of Artforum, Art Monthly, Mute, Art in America and ARTnews.
The untamed beauty of Monet’s last paintings.
Mad Ave drains the truth from Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Uncovering Justine and the Boys, Colette’s forgotten cult film from the late 1970s.
An assessment of the state of an unfortunately still-relevant concept.
Painting the tape, baskets of art, auction choreography and other market mechanics.
April
What’s so unsettling about Ursula von Rydingsvard’s eccentric, craggy sculptures?
The foibles and fashions of the 2009-2010 school year.
Simon Hantaï, Eileen Quinlan and Willie Cole.
The familial subjects of Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal.
Performers find Marina Abramovic’s work just a little too touching.
"Haunted" at the Guggenheim Museum.
März
From Bulgarian-born New York artist Daniel Bozhkov, an absurdist approach to daunting themes.
"Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement" at el Museo del Barrio.
Otto Dix was first and foremost a critic of capitalism.
A film-within-a-film-within-a-film that begins as a chronicle of the phenomenal rise of Street Art.
The curiosities of Félix Vallotton’s studio portraits from the early 1900s.
China’s urbane new generation of digital photography tricksters.
Februar
Beatrice Caracciolo drawings embrace the Existenstialists’ "dreadful freedom."
Derrick Adams throws down a gauntlet of taboo.
Twenty years ago, Wolfgang Tillmans reimagined what a photo could be. Now he’s doing it again.
War is Graffiti veteran Todd James makes an appearance on Fifth Avenue.
The lesson’s of X-Initiative’s final show, "Bring Your Own Art."
"Traveling the Silk Road" at the American Museum of Natural History
Januar
Taking obsession to logical, or illogical, limits.
Through History to Authenticity: John Millei’s Paintings by Donald Kuspit.
Thomas Dozol, Ellen von Unwerth, R. Kern, Warhol drawings of feet, Annette Lemieux, MPA, Matthew Cusick, Vadim Katznelson, Les Rogers, John Tottenham, more.
Patti Smith and the bric-a-brac of life.
2009
Dezember
When ruthless objectivity becomes disturbingly unreal.
The inside story of the Met’s new Velásquez portrait.
Jeff Koons is the artist of the 2000-2009 decade.
Whistle while you work the recycling bins.
Does the marginalization of fine art have something to do with the fakeness of its transgressions?
Slater Bradley studies the mournful aura of Joy Division.
The Bauhaus as a purveyor of anonymity and mechanization.
The German master deploys his ultrapowerful technique to evoke 9/11.
November
The gaudy and outrageous decade.
Choice early photographs at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photography.
Race in depictions of music and pleasure in 18th- and 19th-century American painting.
Olaf Breuning on zombies, corporate advertising and discount travel.
Art’s primal secret, found in Sterling Ruby’s "The Masturbators."
George Grosz, Fernell Franco, Sally Mann, Justine Kurland, Hellen van Meene and Keizo Kitajima.
The Urs Fischer-izing of a four-story institution.
An interview with artist Robert Gober, curator of a new Charles Burchfield show.
Frank Stella, Martha Russo and "boundless abstraction."
Oktober
Harlem Renaissance photographer Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009.
Despite the dire predictions, galleries and artists are busting out.
The never-ending story of the South Carolina artist Aldwyth.
Most art instantly disappears.
September
The deconstructed picture in Conrad Marca-Relli’s collages.
A defense of the NEA conference call.
"Robert Mapplethorpe: Perfection in Form" at Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia.
On Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues.
Tauba Auerbach and human helplessness.
Chapter 11 of the new book, I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon).
Photographer Tim Davis and "The New Antiquity."
The National Academy Museum’s "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009."
August
The New York photographer has a show coming up.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art takes another look at Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés.
An art hiatus in the multiplex.
Summer group shows at Marian Goodman, Murray Guy, Alexander and Bonin, Lisa Cooley, Harris Lieberman, Casey Kaplan.
The Bruce High Quality Foundation critiques the art market.
A summer mediation on boxing, Muhammad Ali and the fate of the American rebel.
Zak Smith’s We Did Porn (TinHouse Books).
The curator of the upcoming Biennale de Lyon explains his concept.
Ronnie Van Hout at Christchurch City Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.
The expatriate love goddess Dorothy Iannone comes home to the U.S.
Another art decade draws to a close.
"Arcadia" at ClampArt and "Desert Light" at Throckmorton Fine Art.
Juli
The simple way to success.
Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009.
Summer group shows at Marian Goodman, Murray Guy, Alexander and Bonin, Lisa Cooley, Harris Lieberman, Casey Kaplan.
Eric Fischl on Tumbling Woman, bullfights and his travelling art train.
"Iran Inside Out" at the Chelsea Art Museum.
Rules for the new recession.
In Belgium 120 years ago, James Ensor let his freak flag fly.
Robert Graham’s female nude.
The fractured self in ""Dan Graham: Beyond"" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Juni
Art about art at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Plus, is something coming out of the other side of that black hole?
Childhood as a signifier of dread in fairy tales by Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons.
X-Initiative’s "No Soul For Sale" shows the way.
Huang Yong Ping, Patty Chang, Laurel Nakadate, Andrea Fraser, Sadie Benning, Rochelle Feinstein.
A challenge to art buyers.
Three Charles Ray sculptures at Matthew Marks are a total trip.
New York’s first survey of photographs and installations by the contemporary Swiss artist Manon.
Daniel Birnbaum’s "Making Worlds" is a Type 0 Biennale.
Contrasting visions of despair from two celebrated contemporary artists.
The esthetics of the auto in contemporary America.
Stanislas Bourgain, Masha Shubina, Gyan Panchal, Didier Trenet, Emeric Glayse, Keiichi Nitta, Yorgos Nikas, Thomas Dryll, Shilpa Gupta, Nick Devereux, more.
Robert Colescott, 1925-2009.
Intuitive action and true passion from four Outsider Artists.
Making art the old-fashioned bohemian way.
Mai
Sex and the phenomenology of looking in "Two Shows: Peeps / Pistoletto" at CUNY’s James Galley.
The myth and reality of Shepard Fairey’s preppy Pop anti-authoritarianism.
em>MODERN Magazine debuts, Frank Gehry’s Tuyomo bench, industrial ornament in Phila, Magen H. Gallery expands, more.
Malcolm Morley, Oliver Herring, Betty Tompkins, Carrie Moyer, Basim Magdy, Glen Baldridge, Michelle Handelman.
“The Pictures Generation” better than the criticism that grew up around it.
A visit to "The Model as Muse" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pablo Picasso is a bowlful of fun.
The Museum of Modern Art presents films by Dutch artist Aernout Mik.
Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern sale on May 5, 2009
An on-the-spot report on the opening of Damien Hirst’s "Requiem" at the Pinchuk Art Centre.
April
The strengths and limits of Adel Abdessemed’s nihilistic guerrilla art.
"Late Picasso," John Waters, Kalup Linzy, Kinke Kooi, Thomas Trosch, Richard Allen Morris.
"Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Richard Phillips and the erotics of capitalism. An interview by Alisa Birenbaum and Katerina Llanes.
Godd bless the New Museum’s tantalizing triennial.
The New Museum Triennial fails as a portrait of a generation but succeeds as an essay on the "naughty oughties."
"Women: A Loan Exhibition from the Collection of Steven and Alexandra Cohen" at Sotheby’s New York."
"Younger than Jesus" at the New Museum.
"The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989" at the Guggenheim Museum.
Frank’s "Americans" step into the National Gallery.
Market conditions are perfect for a resurgence in classic contemporary.
März
Two new gallery spaces in New York are, if not fully realized, rich in possibility.
Carolee Schneemann, Laura Parnes, Paul Sharits, James Castle, Andrew Lord.
The Berlin art bubble has burst. Sort of.
A downbeat look at the American West in MoMA’s "Into the Sunset."
Italian conceptualist Piero Manzoni was more of a professional than he seems.
A visit with Shafik Gabr, Egypt’s premiere collector of Orientalist art.
The Colony Room, Keith Coventry, "Mythologies," Alan Miller, Evan Holloway, Cindy Sherman, Wallis Gallery, Alex Melamid, Ull Hohn, Boo Saville, much more.
The art fair experience finds the form of writing proper to it.
Edvard Munch, Robert Davis and Michael Langlois, Michelle Grabner, Matt Nichols, Matt Hanner, more.
A previously unknown Portrait of Pope Benedict XIV by Pierre Subleyras goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The art market is more moral than the stock market isn’t it?
The museum stamps out a bit of free creativity.
Two difficulties with the new recessionary art market.
Februar
"Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Modern Art.
A look at the new space of the king of British art patrons.
Ruud van Empel’s “Souvenir” series shows how history troubles our fantasies.
What to watch in Christie’s sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection
Revisiting the photographs of the late John Coplans.
White Columns’ anniversary show proves that galleries can (and should) enliven art.
"Master Drawings New York," plus major shows at the Met and the Morgan.
Nicolas Bourriaud curates a sexy new phrase at Tate Britain.
A "year of fashion" at the International Center of Photography
Inside Sotheby’s New York sale of Old Master paintings in January.
Pierre Bonnard, Peter Doig, Erik van Lieshout, more.
The Last Days of Pipilotti Rist’s Pour Your Body Out (7354 Meters).
Januar
Old corporate profits in the new democratic media.
The "crisis in criticism" meets the economic crisis.
Vic Muniz’s "Rebus" offers a formula to save MoMA.
Robert Irwin’s "Red Drawing White Drawing Black Painting"
Stephen Sprouse, Liz Renay, Nick Cage, Barkley L. Hendricks, "Gothic: Dark Glamour," Don Bachardy.
Wake up from the bad-dream art world of star dealer hegemony!
Virgil Marti, Claire Fontaine, Omer Fast, Sharon Lockhart, Robin Graubard and Hélio Oiticica
GOSSIP, GOSSIP, GOSSIP.
An Inaugural Art Guide for Visitors
Pipilotti Rist gives a masculinist MoMA a redeeming shot of estrogen.
A proposal for a new, more sane and generous art market.
Lawrence Weiner in Rome.
A new battle between "conceptual" and "traditional" art.
Good news at the 2009 Outsider Art Fair.
Comedy and corruption in the celebrated U.S. territory.
2008
Dezember
"Fly high, fall hard," a motto for the times.
Momentary encounters with the famous and renowned.
Visiting Rudy Burckhardt’s New York, N. Why?
Kiki Seror’s motifs of carnality.
The print scene at Art Basel Miami Beach week.
The best art shows of 2008.
New sculptures by Rachel Whiteread and George Stoll.
Jeff Sonhouse’s "composites" reach for a neither/nor esthetic.
Advice for artists in an economic downturn.
Weathering the storm at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Six centuries of drawings of New York City at the New-York Historical Society.
Looking at the art-market slump of the early 1990s for lessons for today.
Fairs featuring some 1,123 exhibitors summed up. Plus, the "Best of Naomi Campbell!"
Leon Golub, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Medardo Rosso, Robert Melee, Nicole Cherubini, Aurel Schmidt, more.
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
Jun Kaneko’s "Dangos: Roof Garden Installation" in Philadelphia
Oh Yes They Did! by Ben Davis - The Yes Men and Friends take on the "New York Times"
German artist Martin Kippenberger made mockery his method.
All-female sales could cure a down market.
Sanford Smith’s 23rd annual "Modernism: A Century of Style and Design" at the Park Avenue Armory.
$113.6 million at Christie’s contemporary.
James Castle, Thomas Chambers and Martín Ramírez.
"Eros" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.
Giorgio Morandi and the pleasures of being minor.
Dan Cameron and the "Prospect.1 New Orleans" international biennial in New Orleans.
Brigid Berlin, the last of the superstars.
ARTnews traces a tortuous tale of Pollock paintings and possibly pilfered fingerprints.
Action at the print auctions, plus the IPDFA and E/AB print fairs.
Oktober
The temptations of Elizabeth Peyton’s idealized celebrities.
A hyperactive hodgepodge at MoMA reveals an anachronistic painter’s painter.
Cuts at MoMA, the Gugg goes to the movies, awards and grants, more. Plus, Patricia Faure, RIP.
Sensuous and reflective craft in "Japanese Postwar Photography"
Ken Price talks about his long escape from "art craft hell."
The Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program now has a $5-billion domestic component.
"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" opens at the M.H. de Yong Memorial Museum in 2009.
Alexander Calder is for kids.
All eyes turn to London for the Frieze Art Fair and its satellite events.
Searching for the soul of the Chinese art world.
New works by Cecily Brown and Vik Muniz.
Gargoylish paintings by Damon Johnson, moody photos by Sebastian Mlynarski.
Jorge Queiroz, Ewan Gibbs, Anthony Goicolea and Roger Hiorns.
Warhol, Murakami, Berenice Abbott at Artnet Online Auctions.
On the road with Elliott Arkin and "Mr. Artsee"
September
The good, the bad and the terrible of the new Chelsea art season.
New beaded masterpieces from Liza Lou.
Is the apocalyptic art of "After Nature" a sign of newfound earnestness?
Stalking the elusive Chinese collector at ShContemporary.
"Van Gogh and the Colors of Night" at the Museum of Modern Art.
A colloquy with architecture critic Justin Davidson on the new Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.
Curator Kurt Sundstrom discovers an overlooked masterpiece by Florentine sculptor Antonio Rossellino.
French Pop artist Alain Jacquet dies in New York at age 69
An art critic gets ravished by a legendary Spanish chef.
Lee Krasner’s breakout abstractions from 1946-50.
New paintings by Damian Loeb and Isca Greenfield-Sanders.
Andres Serrano, Paul McCarthy and the avant-garde artist as an anal masturbator.
Braving Hurricane Hanna for the sake of avant-garde art.
The still-vibrant psyche of 85-year-old Henry Kissinger.
September art auctions bring it on
The idea that art is a model for politics is the biggest art-critical boondoggle around.
Lyon & Turnbull’s "Colony Room Club" auction marks the debut of a new Banksy authentication entity, "Vermin."
Gearing up for the new fall art season.
Working with the Iraqi army in Mosul.
August
David Kramer’s new book-cum-artwork, Snake Oil
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.
The parts are greater than the whole in Manifesta 7.
Pipilotti Rist’s "Pour Your Body Out" at MoMA.
Political art in "Competing Ideologies" at D. Wigmore Fine Art. Plus, "Philip Guston: Works on Paper."
New York dealer Leo Koenig opens a satellite gallery in his dairy barn.
Hypermaterialism from Fifth Avenue to Dubai to Beijing.
The painting of Marlene Dumas.
Jeff Koons, better than you think.
The new collaborative Cottage Home gallery for the Chinatown gallery scene in Los Angeles.
The perfect work of art.
Group shows galore, at Gavin Brown, Maccarone, Matthew Marks, Greene Naftali, Moti Hasson, D’Amelio Terras and Canada.
Halfway between the prairie and the Jetsons with the architecture of John Lautner.
Juli
"Kirchner and the Berlin Street" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Sudeley Castle, Boo Saville, CCC Moscow, Alexei Buldakov, Diane Machulina, Sacha Newley, Liliane Lijn, Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin, more.
The state of the arts at Belvoir Terrace Camp in Lenox, Mass.
"Jess 1923-2004" and two group shows put the spotlight on collage.
More thoughts on the case against the Olympics in China.
Turner transformed grim and jejune reality into compelling fantasies of color, light and atmosphere.
Takashi Murakami, Olafur Eliasson and today’s avant-garde.
Does Philippe Vergne have what it takes to keep Dia from being DOA?
Jane and Louise Wilson, Mat Collishaw, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Tetsumi Kudo, Cameron Hayes, Dawn Mellor.
Painter Chuck Connelly in HBO’s new The Art of Failure
Art & Today, Great Collectors of Our Time, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Gary Panter, and Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruzalta
"Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors" at the New-York Historical Society
Public art and the public good.
The idea of art is everywhere these days.
Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls come on with a wink, not a whoosh.
Juni
Two spectacular treasures on loan to the Met.
Abstract Expressionism in the sheikdom.
Buckminster Fuller, Paul McCarthy, and Salvador Dali’s "Painting and Film"
Richard Prince opens at Gagosian Gallery in Rome.
Tony Shafrazi, the man who tagged Guernica, tries another way of superimposing new art and old.
New works from country conceptualist Mike Osterhout.
"Glossolalia" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Wandering around SoHo and Chelsea at the beginning of summer.
With its recent purchase of a seascape by Abraham de Verwer, the National Gallery of Art makes a smart collecting move.
A mythic vision of Chicago in Tony Fitzpatrick’s "Portraits of a Remembered City"
Art Moscow 2008, the World Fine Art Fair, the new MCAA, Volker Diehl, Gary Tatinsian, Dmitry Prigov, more.
David Altmejd’s otherworldly figures create narrative just by standing still.
Roger Brown’s dialogue with disaster.
Does a Warhol look different when it’s hanging above someone’s TV set? Ask Louise Lawler.
Mai
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.
"Art Unlimited," Art 39 Basel, Design Miami Basel, Volta, Scope, Liste, Bâlelatina, Print Basel, more.
John Weber, 1932-2008.
Jonathan Meese, Otto Muehl, Joan Mitchell, Gert & Uwe Tobias, David Altmejd, Rachel Feinstein, Delia Brown, Robert Hawkins.
Sexual dysfunction and environmental consciousness at the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland.
Whimsy and dignity in photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher.
At combat outpost Rock in Mosul.
Issues of freedom and fame in the work of the Fluxus artist Yoko Ono.
Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.
For Pier Pizzi Cannella, a map is a mystery.
An exposition, not an exhibition, about Allan Kaprow in L.A. Plus, Lawrence Weiner.
RIP Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
Thomas Chimes and Lynda Benglis at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia.
The nuances of Yale’s Aliza Shvarts controversy.
Remembering Rauschenberg.
Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.
Julie Checkoway’s documentary Waiting for Hockney raises questions about the sociology of art.
Richard Neutra’s modernist Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes up for auction.
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican collaborate on "Pong" at Tracy Williams, Ltd.
The war in Mosul is one of bombs.
Dan Flavin’s 1964 breakout show, in meticulous reproduction.
New works from the George Rickey estate at Marlborough Chelsea and Maxwell Davidson.
April
Inside a major museum acquisition of drawings by Claude Lorrain.
Artropolis is massive, with more than 700 exhibitors (and Bridge bows out).
On the way to Mosul in Iraq in the spring of 2008.
Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.
Marcel Dzama, Henry Darger, Angelo Filomeno, Hope Atherton, Peter Hujar, Mika Tajima, Glen Fogel, Eric Heist.
Olafur Eliasson and the illusion of taste.
Liu Jia’s "Social Fables" at Galerie Vallois
Art and artists at the third annual Circa Puerto Rico art fair.
Flux Factory’s final show marks the end of an era.
The 28th AIPAD Photography Show.
American portraitist Cecilia Beaux gets a long-overdue reassessment.
Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.
März
Touring the new Lower East Side gallery scene.
Talk of Marlene Dumas, Richard Tuttle and Jimmy Page at Susan and Michael Hort’s private view during Armory weekend.
The Armory, Volta, Scope, Pulse, LA Art, Bridge, more.
A retrospective of the work of 20th-century photographer (and Surrealist muse) Lee Miller.
Towards a No Painting Biennial.
More than 500 galleries make for an art fair feeding frenzy during New York’s Armory Week.
A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s Salon Aleman at the Park Avenue Armory.
New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.
Ai Weiwei’s Descending Light at Mary Boone Gallery.
Jens Haaning, Paul McCarthy, Nicholas Graham, Albert Reyes, Packard Jennings, Steve Lambert, Paul Shambroom, more.
Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.
Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.
Gustave Courbet liked to see what he was not supposed to see.
Cai Guo-Qiang’s "I Want to Believe" at the Guggenheim Museum.
A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.
An interview with the English artist Keith Coventry.
A "rave review" for the Whitney’s 2008 biennial.
A show about archives gets brilliantly lost in the vaults.
Februar
Ellen Berkenblit and the face of Ellen Berkenblit.
Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.
"Jasper Johns: Gray" shows off an imagination that works in non-imaginative ways.
Andreas Hofer’s end-of-art funhouse.
"Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.
Rachel Howard, The Approach, Roman Signer, Poppy de Villeneuve, Germaine Kruip, Darren Almond, Paul Pfeiffer, Marc Quinn, Peter Doig, more.
Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy
A Panda pick-me-up, roller-coaster moods and New York nostalgia on 14th Street. Plus, D.C.’s new Norman Foster courtyard.
Say hello to Luis Gispert’s little friend.
The whimper of "Jasper Johns: Gray" at the Metropolitan Museum.
The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.
A retrospective of the celebrated self-taught painter Malcah Zeldis.
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was designed to be passive.
Januar
Sotheby’s New York totals $91.7 million.
Works by Avi Alpert & Steven Lam, Steve Ausbury and Olen Hsu at PS122 Gallery
The keys to the art-critical kingdom.
Doug Harvey’s "Third Annual L.A. Weekly Biennial" at Track 16 Gallery.
Do-Ho Suh’s Reflection and art’s power to forget.
Old Masters at Christie’s New York.
"Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.
Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.
The year in "complicit esthetics."
Rediscovering Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone.
Paris galleries were aflicker with the pale light of moving pictures.
Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."
"Pattern and Decoration" painting returns, in two museum exhibitions.
The new Ullens Contemporary Center for the Arts in Beijing.
2007
Dezember
Contemporary artists and their pretensions.
Patriotism, propaganda and passion at Exit Art
Marcus Tremonto, gallery bling, Robert M. Kulicke and Bessie Jamieson, Armand Rateau, Tony Duquette, more.
Artist Sooreh Hera’s photographs prompt controversy in the Hague.
Art Basel Miami Beach, Flow, Joe’s Stone Crab, etc.
Piotr Uklanski’s ""Western"" Summer Love
At Gavin Brown, Urs Fischer takes a jackhammer to Chelsea itself.
November
Employing entropy in the world of art.
"The Third Mind" at the Palais de Tokyo, the new Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Diaspora, Alexander Ponomarev, more.
Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.
NEW LIVES FOR OLD by Jane Harris. Surviving Wooloo Productions’ „Life Exchange“
Olafur Elaisson, Douglas Gordon, Takeshi Murata, Will Rogan, Tracy Timman, Liz Walsh, Tony Labat, Nathan Redwood, more.
An interview with New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni
On MoMA’s identity politics.
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.
Minimalism lives in a converted factory in a Hudson River mill town.
1 + 1 does not equal 2 in Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant’s "Cast No Shadow."
Yue Minjun, human logo.
$316 million at Sotheby’s contemporary sale
Line Vautrin, Maid Bar in L.A., Calder jewelry in Palm Beach, "Re:Construction," more.
Blast off at Christie’s post-war and contemporary sale.
Whitney Museum curator Shamim Momin talks the talk.
Kara Walker’s silhouettes don’t just broach America’s touchiest subject they detonate it.
Takashi Murakami’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
Christie’s "Impressionist and Modern Art" evening sale, Nov. 6, 2007.
Sotheby’s New York evening sale of Impressionist and modern art, Nov. 7, 2007
Remembering galleries of times past.
Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.
Oktober
The Whitney Museum bids farewell to its Altria branch with a show about "unraveling"
The art blogs and their nonexistent readers.
During "Frieze Week" in London, the Zoo Art Fair was the most exciting venue for new art.
Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.
Gagosian in Moscow, Pelosi at antiques show, Oppenheim in L.A., Castelli in the Smithsonian, more. Plus, R.B. Kitaj, R.I.P.
The secret Conceptual Art techniques of Lawrence Weiner.
Why you should give a crap about Chris Ofili’s new paintings.
Back to School special: Reverend Jen’s Art Tips for Boys and Girls.
Hidden depths in the drawings of Domenico Zindato.
What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?
Renée Stout, Chuck Close tapestries, Jiha Moon, Ian Whitmore, Olga Viso, Jane Jerardi, Nathan Baker, more.
"XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.
Zak Smith brings his politics and porn to London.
Three shows prove that Los Angeles art was hot in the 1960s.
Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.
Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.
He’s back: Willoughby Sharp in performance.
Stories from the Baghdad 28th Combat Support Hospital.
September
The 1st Athens Biennial, "Her(his)tory" and "Re-Map KM" in Athens.
"All the More Real" at the Parrish Art Museum.
Trying to take the "heim" out of the Guggenheim.
Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.
A promising start for ShContemporary, the new Shanghai art fair.
Sol LeWitt, Huma Bhabha, Arlene Shechet, more.
Rebecca Horn’s performance of her body ego
August
Marx, "a new theory of the art market," art and politics
A change in market values means a change in art values.
The new art fair in Shanghai hopes to steal Beijing’s crown as capital of Chinese contemporary art.
The adolescent avant-garde versus the new Old Masters.
Waiting for Bob Dylan’s painting exhibition.
From the Bronx to Chelsea, via pictoralism, minimalism and deconstruction.
Tokens of love and respect from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana.
Banks Violette, Dash Snow and Dan Colen, group show highlights, more.
Ai WeiWei’s dreams of individuality and conincidence.
Juli
Promise and perplexity at the second edition of the quadrennial Rjamuszian exhibition.
Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
Can Miwa Yanagi dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools?
With Andy, the "authenticity" issue is absurd.
The Venice Biennale, Africa and the "borrowed kettle."
Examining the 52nd Venice Biennale, Documenta XII and Sculpture Projects Münster.
Is Richard Serra’s sculpture the Titanic of avant-garde abstraction?
More on Robert Storr’s "thinking with the senses, seeing with the mind"
The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center
Juni
An interview with Robert Storr, director of the international exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale
Neo-Rauch’s dialectical fables.
The love call of currency.
The market triumphs at Art 38 Basel
Documenta 12 roams the globe and finds. . . what?
The YBA star flogs a $100-million diamond skull.
"Eden’s Edge" and "Sans Soleil" on the future of Los Angeles.
Hirst on the market, museums, his heroes and the $100-million skull.
Is artistic freedom morally neutral?
The pleasures and pitfalls of design art at Design Miami/Basel.
The art-lover’s "treasure hunt" during the Venice Biennale 2007.
A dissected brontosaurus in Beijing, deserted amusement parks in Shanghai.
Prouve’s Maison Tropicale sold, a "pot dealer" in New York, International Ceramics Fair, more.
Paul Chan’s epic, fantastical animations at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Mai
Painter Duncan Hannah summons a specifically English esthetic.
Is Andreas Gursky, the highest-priced photographer alive, running out of ideas
Marc Quinn, Tony Cragg, Damián Ortega, Roxy Paine, Mr., Betty Tompkins, Markus Lüpertz, Darby Bannard, more.
Contemporary at Phillips, de Pury & Co., plus day sale results at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
An update on the controversy surrounding the Sindika Dokolo collection.
A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.
David Godbold answers the question: Why isn’t postmodern art funnier?
Rirkrit Tiravanija makes dinner for gallerygoers. Plus, Gordon Matta-Clark.
A glorious romance with power in "Sequence 1" at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice
Dana Schutz, Josh Smith, Hannah Van Bart, Katharina Wulff, Shana Moulton, Liz Deschenes, Sterling Ruby, more.
Mark Rothko’s White Center (1950) hits the auction block.
Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.
Desert images by Mel Pekarsky and Berber portrait photographs by Lazhar Mansouri.
"Global Feminisms" is a Tsunami-sized wave of distress signals.
April
If "Not for Sale" tells us anything, it's that P.S.1 needs to make some changes.
Dona Ann McAdams and the performance of self in everyday life.
"High Times, Hard Times" catches a moment when the New York art world thought painting was dead and took heroic measures to revive it.
In China bestimmen die Künstler das Geschäft. Warum das so ist und warum ihre Stärke auch ihre Schwäche ist, weiß Stacey Duff.
März
"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Arnold Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Robert Ryman, Karin Davies, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Odd Nerdrum, more.
Art market darling Terence Koh dances with skeletons and brightens the Whitney lobby. Plus, Terence Koh.
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.
Charline von Heyl’s painting is a snake pit of styles
Why are there so many great women artists who can’t get a show?
Februar
Questions surround the patron behind the Venice Biennale’s African exhibition.
A wild ride upwards at Sotheby’s and Christie’s London sales.
What’s new in Artland.
Always a hot spot for art lovers, New York City reached quantum art mass during Feb. 22-26, 2007.
What makes something hot? Is mojo something more that a contact high? Is that buzz something other than the faint rustle of money?.
Januar
MoMA’s "Manet and the Execution of Maximilian" and the Met’s "Glitter and Doom" illuminate history’s darkest corners.
Jay Heikes, Josh Smith, Gavin Turk, Mel Bochner, Philip Vanderhyden, Matt Stole, Leslie Baum, Melanie Schiff, Deb Sokolow and Mitzi Pederson.
A pumped-up Americana market at the Winter Antiques Show and more.
Terence Koh, Kembra Pfahler, Bambi the Mermaid, Joe Ovelman, Tony Matelli, Paulina Olowska, Carrie Moyer, Robert Chambers, more.
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.
Berlin’s Brunnenstrasse bubbles with new galleries and (very) young art.
How did a young Yugoslav end up with hundreds of artworks from the collection of French art dealer Ambroise Vollard?
The bohemian and the ubercollector.
William Hogarth and the plight of women, both rich and poor.
Remembering art as a part of life.
2006
Dezember
Last minute shopping for 2006, and looking ahead to 2007.
Remembering the pioneering New York art dealer.
John Currin’s money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism and the inner life of paintings. Plus, Gregory Crewdson.
New Objectivist portraiture in "Glitter and Doom" at the Metropolitan Museum.
Passing some time in New Haven.
As the year rushes to a close, a few art-world issues and other things that linger on the mind this week.
A report on the Ink, Flow, Bridge, Aqua, DiVA, Pulse, NADA, Photo Miami and Scope art fairs.
Notable new titles, in time for the gift-giving season.
The art business swings for the fences at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Patti Smith finds poetry in the Polaroid.
Angela Strassheim’s tortured photos of suburbia.
An interview with Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura about his new work.
The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.
Imagining the future for two great institutions: Dia and the New Museum. Plus, Marilyn Minter.
A list of things to do in Miami, besides go to the beach.
Minimalism lives in a converted factory in a Hudson River mill town.
November
Actor and artist Robert Dean Stockwell talks about his art and his life.
Whitney to Chelsea, Sao Paulo in pix, Michael Asher in Santa Monica, Factory Girl trailer, more.
Tamy Ben-Tor’s Dostoyevskian gallery of contemporary lost souls, louts, louses and ignoramuses
Is Gary Tinterow moving the Metropolitan Museum into the 21st century?
Oktober
Fernando Botero’s paintings of Abu Ghraib.
Remembering the celebrated Dutch expressionist.
Basquiat in Puerto Rico, trouble for Blue Noses, Michelangelo in China, Marden v. Katz, more.
Nikki S. Lee’s "conceptual documentary" A.K.A. Nikki S. Lee
Titillating the masses in the early 20th century.
A 20th-anniversary appreciation of the sculpture garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Dasha Shishkin’s melancholic world. Plus, emerging artists at Socrates Sculpture Park.
Martin Creed in San Juan, Jackson Pollock in Wisconsin, Nan Kempner at the Met, more. Plus, Marcia Tucker, RIP.
Photojournalist Jonathan Moller documents genocide and reconciliation in Guatemala.
In the art world, the prime real estate is still a men's club. Plus, Catherine Opie.
September
Taking apart the Met chief’s latest pronouncements.
Beauty, uptown and in Chelsea, plus more.
A review of the overheated contemporary art market, September 2006.
Lavish, Marie Antoinette-like consumerism at the Biennale des Antiquaires.
Taking apart the Met chief’s latest pronouncements.
Jackson Pollock’s acts of esthetic desperation. Plus, Stuart Hawkins.
Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.
Can Art Change the World? A Holistic Theory
The first Singapore Biennale puts the island-nation on the art map.
From Bomber Harris to Lefrak City with artist Adam McEwen.
Miguel Abreu makes an art space on the Lower East Side.
Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern. Plus, the fall season begins.
Contemporary art in Sarajevo copes with the legacy of civil war.
August
Making an art video starring Moby and Reverend Jen Junior, a chihuahua.
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière.
Charismatic rebel or kitsch romantic? Populism, eroticism and revolution in David’s greatest student.
The hidden history of the Bauhaus in Marianne Brandt’s photomontages.
Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.
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.
Since when does money create masterpieces?
Germany’s capital has become the epicenter of the international art scene.
Juli
My visit with Hitler’s favorite sculptor.
Galerie Sfeir-Semler in Beirut. Plus, lots of blocks from Herzog & de Meuron, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Hillary at the Museum of Sex, more.
Forget the art fairs, give me the British International Motor Show.
David Hockney, Joel Mesler, Thomas Zipp, Stephen Hull, Nu Nguyen, Frances Stark, more.
Jed Perl’s New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century
The second go-round for the Scope franchise in the Hamptons.
Isa Genzken, Germany’s 2007 German pick for the Venice Biennial, at Neugerriemschneider in Berlin
German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.
The booming art world of China’s financial capital.
Gorgon
Tokyo galleries on the move (again!)
Frank Stella’s breakthrough year.
In new work by Klara Liden, the unfathomable feelings of being alive. Plus, Justin Lowe.
Juni
A look back at the auction fiasco of 2006.
Art Moscow and the flourishing Russian art market.
Artnet Artists’ Works Catalogues provide an important new online resource.
There once was a man from the Highlands...
Real-world politics dooms the ambitious plans to mount Manifesta 6 in the divided capital city of Nicosia, Cyprus.
Stephen Posen draws a total environment at the Drawing Center.
Mai
"Klee and America" at the Neue Galerie in New York.
Delia & Gavin, "Ceremonies of Consummation," May 4-June 24, 2006, at Peres Projects, 969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, Ca. 90012
Alex Katz, "The Sixties," Apr. 27-June 17, 2006, at PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10011
Couldn’t six Texas millionaires chip in and buy a group of Judds? Plus, Alex McQuilkin.
April
Amy Sillman, a nervy painter who loves mid-century abstraction.
Enrique Metinides’ death-obsessed photos of Mexico City come to L.A.
The Chinese gold rush at P.S.1’s "The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now."
Masturbating jocks and cheerleaders at Cynthia Broan.
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.
Drawing Restraint 9 is a hoot.
"Panic Room" at the Deste Foundation in Athens.
Tara Donovan’s undulating, otherworldly river valley. Plus, Judith Linhares.
März
Kara Walker’s language of tattered words and shadow plays. Plus, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.
Where rules must be observed to stay alive.
Day by day during art fair week in New York
Robert Graham’s new nudes have a nonconformist primordiality.
Charline von Heyl’s painting is a snake pit of styles.
Reading the semiotics of the Armory Show 2006, Mar. 9-13, 2006.
Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.
The "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night" is lively, brainy and self-conscious. Plus, Kelley Walker.
The art of text at the Whitney Biennial 2006
Februar
The life and work of an Andy Warhol superstar.
The glory of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking "moneybags piss pot."
Photography in New York the AIPAD photo show, Tracey Moffatt, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Christopher Williams and Florian Maier-Aichen.
A memoir of the late British artist John Latham, who destroyed books as his art form.
Downtown art critic and curator Carlo McCormick gives an advance tour of the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
Walid Raad makes art that is like a communiqué from a secret agent. Plus shows by Joe Zucker and Sally Smart.
Do Italian artists need a new manifesto for the 21st century?
More than 275 galleries from 35 countries at the celebrated Spanish art fair.
New images of art from Iraq in New York.
A survey of photography by feminist performance art pioneer Carolee Schneemann.
Januar
Americana, Old Masters, more, at January auctions in New York
A profile of collector, author and Old Master dealer Richard L. Feigen
Whitney Biennial curators past and present talk around the 2006 installment.
Dorkbot, "Breaking and Entering" at PaceWildenstein, "Superlowrez" at vertexList, "Dewanatron" at Pierogi
"The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" at the New York Public Library
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.
Ted Riederer’s quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable. Plus, Stephen Shore.
An artists' neighborhood confronts the prospect of gentrification.
Robert Rauschenberg draws a line in the psychic sands of American sexual and cultural values.
Tokyo galleries on the move (again!)
Touchstones in the pseudoreligion of contemporary art.
2005
Dezember
0100101110101101.ORG proves Europe kicks butt.
A manic-depressive panic attack in the face of profound information overload.
"Memling’s Portraits," Oct. 12-Dec. 31, 2005, at the Frick Collection.
Soup to nuts at Art Basel Miami Beach
November
Luc Tuymans renders everything through the same shadowy scrim. Plus, Laleh Khorramian, Sergej Jensen
Is the Museum of Modern Art becoming a madman who thinks it is king?
Digital art is grounded in codes rather than images.
Oktober
Elizabeth Murray’s distinctive place in American art. Plus, new work by Ludwig Schwarz and Claire Fontaine.
Northwestern’s Block Museum brings architect Marion Mahony Griffin back into the light.
Curator Paul Schimmel’s "Ecstasy" brings contemporary art back to where it belongs.
London has become the most dynamic city in today’s global art market.
September
More artists, gallerists and curators are taking matters into their own hands in New York
Four years after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
August
"Art of the Marquesas Islands" at the Metropolitan Museum
German artist Anselm Kiefer is contemporary master and a "buy."
The Hirshhorn Museum commissions a new sound piece from Janet Cardiff.
Steve Powers and the Dreamland Artist Club at Coney Island.
The Grimaldi Forum’s tribute to the "Arts of Africa"
No one collects Richard Tuttle with an eye on getting rich.
Digital art is grounded in codes rather than images.
Banks Violette rocks the Whitney.
Juli
I've got a little, make that a big, problem with contemporary art auctions.
Old Masters in London, plus a comment for the ages.
Juni
Sarah Sze's magical, maniacal ways of looking at structure and space.
The spectacle of art and money, happily married.
Mai
I've got a little, make that a big, problem with contemporary art auctions.
Results for American painting sales, Versace, contemporary day sales, more.
The International Fine Art Fair 2005.
Signs of stability in the spring contemporary art sales in New York.
New York photo sales, spring 2005.
An art-market slowdown at Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern sale.
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