Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they... →
Jerry Saltz
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from... →
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man.... →
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in... →
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in... →
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides... →
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.