Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
Jerry Saltz
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want... →
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around... →
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.