The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged... →
Jerry Saltz
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has... →
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades... →
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is... →
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as... →
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind... →
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the... →