The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same but it's far tougher now because record companies are run by financial people before they were run by creative people.
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...
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of...
Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it and hardship and...
The last time money left the art world intrepid types maxed out their credit...
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations that...
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of...
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous...
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years...
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes...
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that...
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies appropriation breathed...
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery...
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth...
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo...
Outside museums in noisy public squares people look at people. Inside...
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows....
My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our...
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide...
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The...
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on...
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That...
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates...
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist in love with art smitten with art...
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more...
Yes 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a...
