Caravaggio: sex, violence and film noir
Transparency Is Only the Beginning
Shedding Darkness on an Eakins Painting
High-Tech Matisse
Photographs That Tell Unsettling Tales
Andy Warhol, Outside His Comfort Zones
Lichtenstein, After the Funny Papers
Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man
Materialism in Paint and in Culture
Back to the Farm
Elite Art: How to Get a Foot in the Door
What "Skin Fruit" Says About Jeff Koons
Did Shakespeare write his plays alone?
Artists and Museums Get the Red Carpet Treatment
The silence of the Degas scholars
Everything That is New is Old Again:The Confessions of a Traditionalist
Art falls victim to football hooliganism
Collecting For Passion Or Investment
Blind Faith
Keeping the Faith
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Caravaggio: sex, violence and film noir
Why is the artist, who died 400 years ago, now so popular, when for so long he was quite beyond the pale?
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Transparency Is Only the Beginning
IN his office in TriBeCa, James Carpenter is surrounded by sheets of glass — thick and thin, wavy and flat, transparent and opaque.
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Shedding Darkness on an Eakins Painting
PHILADELPHIA -- The critic Clement Greenberg once described Thomas Eakins’s signature brand of darkness as “an ideal chiaroscuro.”
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High-Tech Matisse
AROUND 1913 Henri Matisse seemed to be at the top of his game. In his mid-40s he was, at last, an international star
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Photographs That Tell Unsettling Tales
Is a mosquito bite a form of travel? Maybe, according to a photograph by Dennis Oppenheim.
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Andy Warhol, Outside His Comfort Zones
In the 10 years before his sudden death at 58 in 1987 Andy Warhol had more new, good ideas about making paintings than he knew what to do with. But he rarely let on....
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Lichtenstein, After the Funny Papers
By now it’s no surprise to find a museum-worthy show of a major artist at a Chelsea gallery.
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Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man
One of the greatest landscapes of the Romantic era can be found right in the middle of Manhattan. It isn’t a Turner, a Friedrich, a Delacroix...
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Materialism in Paint and in Culture
Death and transcendence always have been the pole stars of Richard Prince’s art
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Back to the Farm
As the global pace of urbanization quickens and the world’s agricultural resources diminish, a new crop of artists and designers is...
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Elite Art: How to Get a Foot in the Door
A rare Brice Marden 1988-98 painting, the calligraphic black and white Cold Mountain I (Path) is up for grabs to the highest bidder.
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What "Skin Fruit" Says About Jeff Koons
NEW YORK— There’s no question at this point that the financial miasma surrounding the New Museum’s decision to have incredibly expensive artist
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Did Shakespeare write his plays alone?
When I began teaching in the early 1980s, I was only dimly aware that a revolution was taking place in how Shakespeare’s world and works were understood.
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Artists and Museums Get the Red Carpet Treatment
Montreal’s reputation as an underground city, with its labyrinthine connections between shopping centres, hotels, stations, museums and civic centres,...
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The silence of the Degas scholars
Some museums have lined up to authenticate “amazing” find of lifetime plaster casts, but the leading experts refuse to commen
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Everything That is New is Old Again:The Confessions of a Traditionalist
Artists, and, particularly, those who produce what we call Modern art, are at once both the most self-conscious (“Look at what I did”) and...
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Art falls victim to football hooliganism
The letter mailed to Zineb Sedira at her London home on 22 November was short and to the point. Mohsen Shaalan
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Collecting For Passion Or Investment
The urge to collect has revealed itself throughout history as a fundamentally human phenomenon
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Blind Faith
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED that the Guggenheim’s floor is patterned with circles? It had never occurred to me to examine it
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Keeping the Faith
ABUNDANT ICE AND A –25°C CHILL pretty much precluded stilettos, but it didn’t stop a crowd of nearly five thousand fur-clad visitors from...
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Stage Struck
VALLEJO GANTNER, artistic director of Performance Space 122, stood in his institution’s upstairs theater...
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Peaches and Beaches
Twenty minutes before the 4 PM Tuesday kickoff of NADA’s preview (benefiting the New Museum)
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Village People
IN 2007, Larry Gagosian brought Jeff Koons, Piotr Uklanski, and Richard Prince to Barvikha, the “Luxury Village” forty minutes outside Moscow
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Georgia on My Mind
“TBILISI IS FAMOUS for its huge watermelons in summer; the currency is called lari, and you get Chanel-stamped plastic bags for your grocery shopping.”
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Ronnie Bass
Ronnie Bass’s exhibition “The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure from Shed” at Marginal Utility in Philadelphia comprises a video...
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Trial and Error
LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT, I found myself standing on the main stage at the Abrons Art Center, blinded by stage lights...
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French Evolution
I HATE TO SOUND
like an ugly American who can’t go abroad without wishing it were more like home, but the French really are a myopic lot.
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Different Class
NOTHING POINTS UP
the art-world pecking order like a fair. And nowhere is the division between the haves and the have-nots...
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Due Process
LEGEND HAS IT
that a young L Ron Hubbard once bragged to his friends that he was going to start a religion and make a million dollars.
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Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Environmental Art, Op, Pop...
Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Environmental Art, Op, Pop and the Kinetic/Dynamic Externalism of the Open Arena
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Belleville Rendezvous
TAKING LINE 2 of the Paris metro east to Belleville Wednesday afternoon, I started my tour of the galleries in the popular nineteenth and twentieth arrondissements with a visit to Suzanne Tarasiève’s Loft 19.
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The Other Michelangelo
Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), called Caravaggio, is the second Michelangelo, born a few years after...
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Artists by Movement: Neoclassical Art
Neoclassical Art is a severe and unemotional form of art harkening back to the grandeur of ancient Greece and Rome.
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