Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art... →
Jerry Saltz
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of... →
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even... →
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their... →
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... →
Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I... →
Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes... →
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches... →
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over... →
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these... →