The man whom the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Board of Trustees voted to hire yesterday as the museum's next director is not an art world power broker. He is something infinitely more interesting. In selecting Thomas P. Campbell, the curator ...
In his article on contemporary Chinese art ("Mao Crazy," July 9), Jed Perl is critical of the Guggenheim Museum for hosting a mid-career retrospective of the artist Cai Guo-Qiang, which he views as part of a "globalized political whitewash job" of ...
I don't follow auctions. They represent a side of the art world--the financial side--that I would just as soon ignore, especially when I hear about the prices reached by contemporary art, which grow more astonishing with each passing month. I do not ...
There are times when art should be the last thing on an art critic's mind. The thunderous popularity of a number of contemporary Chinese artists compels a political analysis. Much of the work is powered by a startling and completely delusionary ...
Jeff Koons on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art When I returned from Los Angeles not long ago, where I had gone to see the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum, friends quite naturally asked for my impressions. The strange thing was that I hardly knew ...
Robert Rauschenberg, the man who once said he wanted to act in the gap between art and life, has departed this life, dying on Monday at the age of 82 in his home on the island of Captiva, off Florida's Gulf coast. There are few things that the men and ...
As 2007 becomes a memory, I would like to salute a half a dozen remarkable books about the visual arts published during the year. They are remarkable for a variety of reasons, ranging from the idiosyncratic power of a text to the unexpected light shed ...
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There was never any difference between art-for-art's-sake and art-for-everything-else's-sake; at least there wasn't so far as R. B. Kitaj was concerned. He was awestruck by the masterworks in the museums. He embraced the modern world as a spectacle ...
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