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Norton Two-Times Whitney, MoMA
As the Whitney Biennial launches this week to the usual hyperbolic chorus of yays and nays, behind t read more »
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The Rich Rewards of EngagementWith Dense, Demanding Work
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Father and Daughter Reunion In Brutal but Riveting Met Show
To understand why the 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652) is an artist fo read more »
Mamma Mia: Cute, Explicit Homages to Childbearing
It's the rare artist who isable to transform kitsch into something more than what it is, and Ann Age read more »
Michael Steiner's Steel Forms: Witty, But Not Ha-Ha Funny
The sculpture of Michael Steiner, currently the subject ofan exhibition at Salander-O'Reilly Galleri read more »
Art Submits to Mary Boone In Dealer's Chelsea Atrium
Bill Jensen currently has an exhibition of his paintings at the Chelsea branch of the Mary Boone Gal read more »
Imagine Henry Moore Gone Minimalist
A few weeks back, I buzzed through the exhibition of Tony Cragg's new sculpture at Marian Goodman Ga read more »
A Show of Shows: Nozkowski's Masterful Conundrums Protetch
Over the past 25 years, Thomas Nozkowski has established a sturdy career as an abstract painter. read more »
Canvases With a Taut Resolution Between Representation and Form
To state that Lois Dodd's landscape paintings, now at the Fischbach Gallery, reconcile realism and a read more »
Serra, Chelsea Paradigm, Opens Gagosian Art Barn
What do we make of a gallery scene that is renowned less for art than for the spaces in which art is read more »
What Sculpture Might Have Looked Like on Day 1
One of the casualties of culture, brought about by the ascendance of the Dadaist esthetic, is the de read more »
The Latest Gasp: Morris Louis' Abstractions
It is good to see the canvases of Morris Louis (1912-1962) at a time when contemporary abstract pain read more »
Mary Boone's Chelsea Outpost; Keith Sonnier Leaves Castelli
Three years after she abandoned SoHo for Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, gallery owner Mary Boone is n read more »
Guggenheim Can't Take Clemente Out of the Guggenheim
On Oct. 8, virtually the entire Solomon R. read more »
Cooper-Hewitt's Triennial: 20 Architects, No Eisenmans
Final plans are still being worked out for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's first National Design Triennia read more »
Mormon's Family Album: Pollock, Reagan, Steve Young
In recent years, Deitch Project, a gallery in SoHo, has made a specialty of exhibiting the we-are-th read more »
Gagosian Pays $5.75 Million for Largest Gallery in Chelsea
When Larry Gagosian first came to New York from Los Angeles in 1986, he opened a small gallery on We read more »
Who Will Inherit Dumbo? Sculptors Get Run Over
Each year for the past 17 years, "Between the Bridges," an outdoor sculpture exhibition, has been he read more »
Portrait of the Artist at 63: A New Chapter for Frank Stella?
If there is one art gallery that has controlled most of the heavy-hitting contemporary artists in re read more »
MoMA, Acme of Modern Taste, Commissions a New Boutique
For the past 10 years, the Museum of Modern Art has been selling highly designed, museum-endorsed pr read more »
Gucci's Tom Ford: The Man Behind the Biennale
In late March, SoHo gallerist Sean Kelly sent a package of information about one of his artists via read more »
MoMA's Hall of Fame; Revving up Ringgold
Fame is hell.In the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition entitled Fame After Photography , there wasn't read more »
A Downtown Architect Explains That Silly Manifesto
A year ago, Ali Tayar was just another downtown architect. read more »
Another Mapplethorpe Controversy, This Time Over Shadowy Prints
Late last year, Mark Dickstein sent two Mapplethorpe photographs that he owns to Christie's to see a read more »
Art of Glass; 14th Street Gallery Crawl
Barry Friedman seems to have been born buying and selling beautiful things in a quick Brooklyn stacc read more »
Schnabel in Reruns; Geldzahler Revisits the Met
It's been more than 20 years since, inspired by a door in Barcelona, Julian Schnabel smashed a set o read more »
Michael Gabellini Wins P/A; Inside Paula Cooper II
On April 13, Architecture magazine announced the 1999 recipients of the esteemed P/A award, given an read more »
The U.S. Export to the Biennale; A SoHo Art Scene in Miami
Since it was first organized in 1895, the Venice Biennale has been one of the main events of the art read more »
Two Photographers Who've Seen the Future
On the evening of March 16, Todd Eberle and Robert Polidori flanked the entrance to the Robert Mille read more »
Dia Hired Ed Hayes to 'Deal With the Garganos'
Last April, Michael Govan, director of the Dia Center for the Arts, was piloting a small rented plan read more »
The Publisher's New Portrait: Randy Jones' 5-Foot Commission
Randy Jones, publisher of Worth , Equity and Civilization , is a man with a healthy, oversize ego. read more »
Donald Baechler's Moment; the (Not) Never-Ending Beard Show
Of all of the 80's art stars, Donald Baechler has had the quietest career. read more »
In Dueling Art Fairs, Downtown Exhibition Wins
The 11th annual installment of The Art Show got under way on Feb. read more »
The Heir to 57th Street; WWW.AnselAdams.com
At 31, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is probably the youngest art dealer to be a partner in a 57th Street read more »
For $15,000, Collectors Line Up to Meet Damian Loeb
Love Boat producer Douglas Cramer has placed an order to buy the next thing that 28-year-old painter read more »
Artist Gets a Percentage in $1 Million Resale of Rhapsody
For the past two years, Jennifer Bartlett has been a free agent. read more »
After Sèvres Show, Will Marino Redesign American Craft Museum?
When American Craft Museum curator David McFadden was casting around for a way to do justice to an e read more »
Duchamp Scholars Face Off in Art in America Hate Mail
Arturo Schwarz is a 75-year-old Egyptian-born poet, anarchist and former Trotskyist who has resided read more »
Steve Wynn's Windfall? Vegas' Virtually Tax-Free Art
Calling himself the single highest payer of art sales taxes in Nevada, casino magnate Steve Wynn exp read more »
Clash of Styles at Whitney? Anderson Accepts Gift But …
On July 29, Maxwell Anderson was named director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, replacing Dav read more »
Peter Brant Opens Mouth, Inserts Entire Art Community
"Great artists are like loaded guns. read more »
Widow Claims Hotelier Copied Husband's Paintings
On the morning of May 26, workers entered Nica's restaurant in the Stanhope Hotel and began gutting read more »
Taaffe's Tortured Transition; Dennis Hopper's Pop Art Pics
Harley Baldwin started out in Aspen, Colo., in 1968 with a popcorn wagon and $1,200. read more »
The Force Behind Guggenheim's Nudie Show
On the evening of April 23, 15 beautiful models were assembled, battalionlike, in the rotunda of the read more »
Miramax 'Love Story' Arouses Art World Debate
Gallery owner Richard Feigen was worried on April 28 when he opened his gallery for a party followin read more »
Tony likes him: Cabaret costume designer and frustrated architect William Ivey Long
"I'm exhausted. read more »
Saatchi and Salle Reunion? 41 Mr. Chows; Gun Crazy
Is adman turned art-gallery kingmaker Charles Saatchi regretting the fact that in the early 90's he read more »
Blimey! Freud Scorned Again; Nary a Well-Connected Charity
"I didn't intend to write a book that would upset Lucian Freud," said Matthew Collings, author of Bl read more »
Artists Against Monogamy; The Jilted Prince of Beijing
When 32-year-old Ellen Gallagher's cool abstract paintings appeared at the Mary Boone Gallery in Jan read more »
Wet Dreams Sunk at Auction; The 200-Pound Supermodel
John Alexander is a 52-year-old painter with a respectable career that includes regular shows at the read more »
