Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything... →
Jerry Saltz
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces... →
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute... →
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room... →
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in... →
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
When art wins, everyone wins.
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built... →
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.