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Looking for Answers in the Watermill Center's Sobering Mike Kelley Tribute
Looking for Answers in the Watermill Center's Sobering Mike Kelley TributePhoto Gallery: Slideshow: The Watermill Center Presents "Mike Kelley: 1954-2012"Published: August 16, 2012Six months ago, the...
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Art and Occupy Wall Street, One Year On
Art and Occupy Wall Street, One Year OnPublished: September 17, 2012Today is S17. That’s the alphanumeric shorthand, for those who don’t know, for the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the...
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After the Flood: How Will Hurricane Sandy Change New York's Art World?
After the Flood: How Will Hurricane Sandy Change New York's Art World? Published: November 2, 2012Frankenstorm Sandy has shaken the city, from the aeries of its postmodern penthouses to the obscure...
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Diversify or Die: Why the Art World Needs to Keep Up With Our Changing Society
Diversify or Die: Why the Art World Needs to Keep Up With Our Changing SocietyPublished: November 16, 2012President Obama’s reelection last week has put a blazing spotlight on the “emerging majority”...
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Slouching Towards Burning Man: Is the Counterculture Fest Evolving or...
Slouching Towards Burning Man: Is the Counterculture Fest Evolving or Devolving? Photo Gallery: Slideshow: The Ten Craziest Projects at Burning Man 2012Published: November 29, 2012About one half hour...
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3 Hard Truths About the Art Market: It's Nasty, Brutish, and Short-Sighted
3 Hard Truths About the Art Market: It's Nasty, Brutish, and Short-SightedPublished: January 15, 2013You probably don’t want to read another article on art and money. I don’t really want to write one....
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Non-Objective Art History: How MoMA's "Inventing Abstraction" Fails Its Subject
Non-Objective Art History: How MoMA's "Inventing Abstraction" Fails Its SubjectPublished: March 28, 2013Imagine yourself cracking open one of those terrible essays about “how young people talk today.”...
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Saving Basquiat: Seeing the Art Through the Myth-Making at Gagosian
Saving Basquiat: Seeing the Art Through the Myth-Making at GagosianPublished: April 5, 2013With over 50 paintings, “museum-quality” is probably the term you'd use to describe Gagosian’s Jean-Michel...
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The Success and Failure of Gutai
The Success and Failure of GutaiPhoto Gallery: Slideshow: "Gutai: Splendid Playground" at the GuggenheimPublished: May 8, 2013What to make of Gutai? The Guggenheim’s survey of the mid-century Japanese...
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Reflecting on Jeff Koons's Hollow Triumph in Chelsea
Reflecting on Jeff Koons's Hollow Triumph in ChelseaPublished: May 17, 20131.When I walked into “Gazing Ball,” Jeff Koons’s new show at David Zwirner, my first reaction was… pleasant surprise.The show,...
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Why Cooper Union's Tuition Fight Matters for the Future of Art
Why Cooper Union's Tuition Fight Matters for the Future of ArtPublished: May 24, 2013People should be angry about what has happened at Cooper Union.Trouble has been looming at the historically...
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What DIA's Plight Says About the Fate of Art in the Age of Inequality
What DIA's Plight Says About the Fate of Art in the Age of InequalityPublished: May 31, 2013A few years ago, as the auctions first went parabolic and Vanity Fair crowed about “The Billion Dollar Art...
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"International Art English," the Joke That Forgot It Was Funny
"International Art English," the Joke That Forgot It Was FunnyPublished: June 6, 2013“International Art English” is back. The essay of the same name, penned by David Levine and Alix Rule and published...
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In Which Dave Hickey Offends Canada, and Says Something True
In Which Dave Hickey Offends Canada, and Says Something True There are only a few great critics holding forth in today’s waning critical climate who maintain an element of danger in their invocations....
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Jay Z's Sad "Picasso Baby" Vid Touts Art as the Mature Rapper's Bling
Jay Z's Sad "Picasso Baby" Vid Touts Art as the Mature Rapper's Bling“Not as horrific as it could be, actually.” That was how one friend who had been at Jay Z’s marathon Pace gallery performance last...
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The Two Cultures of Contemporary Art
The Two Cultures of Contemporary ArtLast month, the performer Mike Daisey delivered a riveting, free-associative monologue at Joe’s Pub, part of his “All the Faces of the Moon” series, about life in...
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What Arthur Danto Meant to Me
What Arthur Danto Meant to MeArthur Danto, who died over the weekend at the age of 89, was that rare and heroic thing: a real weirdo. I say that admiringly. The legendary critic, who made his name...
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