My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance...
Too many younger artists critics and curators are fetishizing the sixties...
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product Richter 'found'...
When people in stadiums do the Wave it's the group-mind collective organism...
'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World...
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see...
In the seventies a group of American artists seized the means not of...
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when...
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing learning unlearning...
Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into...
In 1998 Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't...
The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the...
My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever...
Abstraction brings the world into more complex variable relations it can...
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history...
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave and...
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any...
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But...
Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest...
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week and no matter what kind of mood I'm in...
When museums are built these days architects directors and trustees seem...
I love art dealers. In some ways they're my favorite people in the art...
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art...
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting...
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art thinking that...
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still over the past decade...
If the Frieze Art Fair catches on I imagine at least two great things...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50...
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of...
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces questions what...
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be...
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz and the lamestream media that...
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one...
Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of...
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in...
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era ' the Whitney Museum's...
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open tall-ceilinged...
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties stays in the same...
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes placing one work of...
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes...
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so...
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992 an edgy moment...
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first...
A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about...
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which for...
Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves...
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory...
When money and hype recede from the art world one thing I won't miss will be...