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Oct. 16, 2009
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A New Kind of Boomby Jerry Saltz
Despite the dire predictions, galleries and artists are busting out.
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Oct. 15, 2009
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A LACK ATTACKby Charlie Finch
Paintings by the legendary polysexual sybarite Stephen Lack.
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Oct. 14, 2009
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NO BONES ABOUT ITby David Coggins
New Wave jazz musician, composer, actor and artist John Lurie on his new paintings.
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Oct. 13, 2009
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HIRST’S BLUE PERIODby Simon Todd
Damien Hirst’s "No Love Lost: Blue Paintings" at the Wallace Collection in London.
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Oct. 9, 2009
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JOHNSON AND ARTby Charlie Finch
Notes on the tercentenary of the first great modernist, Samuel Johnson.
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Oct. 7, 2009
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INSIDE OUTby Oriane Stender
The never-ending story of the South Carolina artist Aldwyth.
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Oct. 6, 2009
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BOOK PARTYby Deborah Ripley
The 2009 New York Art Book Fair at P.S.1.
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Oct. 5, 2009
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Cézanne and Americaby N.F. Karlins
In a groundbreaking exhibition, the Montclair Art Museum examines Paul Cézanne’s influence on American artists.
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Oct. 2, 2009
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RUPPERSBERG TIMEby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
The unique literary sensibility of California Conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg.
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Oct. 2, 2009
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PHOTO SHOPby Charlie Finch
Jewels of MoMA’s new photo installation.
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Oct. 1, 2009
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IT’S A HARD POP LIFEby Laura K. Jones
Tate Modern unveils "Pop Life: Art in a Material World."
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Sept. 30, 2009
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PATCHING IT OVERby Donald Kuspit
The deconstructed picture in Conrad Marca-Relli’s collages.
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Sept. 29, 2009
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THE BIG HURTby Charlie Finch
Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker.
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Sept. 28, 2009
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OUT OF THE EROTIC GHETTOby Jerry Saltz
The Whitney’s welcome retrospective rescues Georgia O’Keeffe from sex and flowers.
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Sept. 25, 2009
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STILL A FRAUDby Charlie Finch
Deconstructing Dave Hickey
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Sept. 24, 2009
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THE LONELY CROWDby Charlie Finch
Shutterbug Christopher Dawson captures the other side of public events.
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Sept. 22, 2009
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SOCKCUCKER BLUESby Charlie Finch
On Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues.
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Sept. 16, 2009
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TAKEOVER ARTISTby David Coggins
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans talks about his traveling U.S. retrospective.
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Sept. 16, 2009
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DA DO RON RONby Charlie Finch
An art-celebrity-packed tribute to Mary Boone Gallery director Ron Warren.
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Sept. 14, 2009
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THE SMOKY LIFEby Joe Fyfe
David Novros shows his abstract paintings from the 1960s at Paula Cooper Gallery.
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Sept. 14, 2009
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A SHOT OF WRYby Charlie Finch
Photographer Tim Davis and "The New Antiquity."
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Sept. 11, 2009
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MOANIN' WITH MONETby Charlie Finch
The Museum of Modern Art re-presents "Monet’s Water Lilies."
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Sept. 9, 2009
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THREE-DAY WEEKENDAn Interview with Vitaly Komar by Dominikus Müller and Astrid Mania
A talk with the Russian-born New York artist on the eve of a new exhibition in Manhattan.
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Sept. 9, 2009
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COEFFICIENTby Charlie Finch
Wayne Coe’s sidewalk drawings.
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Sept. 8, 2009
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OCTOBER
by Charlie Finch
Uli Edel's film The Baader Meinhof Complex.
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Sept. 3, 2009
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MOTHER-IN-LAWby Charlie Finch
Anne Truitt at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
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Sept. 2, 2009
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THE VARIETIES OF BODYby Donald Kuspit
The National Academy Museum’s "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009."
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Aug. 31, 2009
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I LOVE SUSAN SILASby Charlie Finch
The New York photographer has a show coming up.
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Aug. 31, 2009
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JERRY SALTZ’S WANT-TO-SEESby Jerry Saltz
Shows that New York Magazine’s resident art critic is anticipating this fall.
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Aug. 26, 2009
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GIVEN, FINALLYby Lewis Kachur
The Philadelphia Museum of Art takes another look at Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés.
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Aug. 21, 2009
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LUNCH WITH BAIBAKOVAby Simon Todd
Maria Baibakova and the Red October Chocolate Factory.
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Aug. 21, 2009
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THE OTHER JACKby Charlie Finch
Jack Tworkov at UBS Art Gallery.
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Aug. 17, 2009
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NOUVEL RICHEby Charlie Finch
A city planning commission vignette, starring MoMA’s proposed skyscraper.
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Aug. 13, 2009
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THE AVANT-GARDEby Charlie Finch
Will there ever be an avant-garde again?
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Aug. 10, 2009
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SEE HER ROARby Ilka Scobie
The expatriate love goddess Dorothy Iannone comes home to the U.S.
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July 30, 2009
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Design Timeby Charlie Finch
"Ron Arad: No Discipline" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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July 29, 2009
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FLESH PERSPECTIVEby Sidney Lawrence
"Paint Made Flesh" at the Phillips Collection.
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July 27, 2009
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WE THREEby Charlie Finch
Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009.
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July 23, 2009
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THREE DEALERSby Charlie Finch
The High Line is the death knell for the Chelsea galley scene.
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July 21, 2009
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INSIDE MANby Ilka Scobie
Eric Fischl on Tumbling Woman, bullfights and his travelling art train.
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July 14, 2009
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TOYS WILL BE TOYSby Charlie Finch
At Japan Society, a show of Japanese toy autos from the post-war years.
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July 13, 2009
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DASH ITby Charlie Finch
Dash Snow, 1981-2009
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July 9, 2009
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DARK STARby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Larry Johnson at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
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July 9, 2009
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Dick In Handby Kenny Schachter
Art 40 Basel and the current art market.
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July 8, 2009
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BLIND ON BLINDby Charlie Finch
A parable for the art recession.
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July 7, 2009
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GRAHAMARAMAby Peter Scott
The fractured self in "Dan Graham: Beyond" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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July 7, 2009
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BOVACIOUSby Charlie Finch
Carol Bove’s "Plants and Animals" at the Horticultural Society of New York.
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July 2, 2009
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KALEIDOSCOPE QUILTSby N.F. Karlins
A retrospective of Paula Nadelstern’s pieced quilts at the American Folk Art Museum.
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June 29, 2009
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ENTROPY IN VENICE
by Jerry Saltz
Art about art at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Plus, is something coming out of the other side of that black hole?
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June 29, 2009
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MICHAEL AND JEFFby Charlie Finch
Childhood as a signifier of dread in fairy tales by Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons.
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June 26, 2009
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Art’s Near Future
by Jerry Saltz
X-Initiative’s "No Soul For Sale" shows the way.
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June 24, 2009
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BAD TO THE BONE
by Charlie Finch
If you like the funnies, you’ll love James Ensor.
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June 16, 2009
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PEEING WITH BRENDANby Charlie Finch
BARR, aka Brendan Fowler, performs at the New Museum.
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June 11, 2009
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HAROLD AND MAUDE
by Charlie Finch
Megumi Sasaki’s new documentary, Herb & Dorothy.
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June 9, 2009
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NAUMAN AND JOHNS
by Charlie Finch
Contrasting visions of despair from two celebrated contemporary artists.
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June 5, 2009
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CHRIST IN THE CARby Charlie Finch
The esthetics of the auto in contemporary America.
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June 4, 2009
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INTO THE NIGHTby Charlie Finch
Yale’s disingenuous lawsuit over van Gogh’s Night Cafe.
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May 29, 2009
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THE LADY HOSMERby Charlie Finch
Patricia Cronin’s homage to the 19th-century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer.
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May 28, 2009
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THE KUSAMA MYTHby Jody B. Cutler Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Gallery.
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May 27, 2009
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SACRED MONSTERby Jerry Saltz Francis Bacon, the greatest painter of the 20th century, or fascinating mess?
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May 20, 2009
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TWO COATS OF PAINby Charlie Finch
A modest proposal to put downtown galleries in empty Madison Avenue storefronts.
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May 18, 2009
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GREAT ARTISTS STEALby Jerry Saltz "The Pictures Generation" -- better than the criticism that grew up around it.
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May 15, 2009
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WINNERS AND LOSERSby Richard Polsky An after-sale assessment of the contemporary art market, fall 2009.
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May 15, 2009
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BEING CHRISTINAby Charlie Finch Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World at the Museum of Modern Art.
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May 14, 2009
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DIARY OF AN ART STARby Reverend Jen A visit to "The Model as Muse" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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May 8, 2009
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GOT MIK?by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art presents films by Dutch artist Aernout Mik.
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Apr. 29, 2009
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OUT OF IRAQby Charlie Finch Artist Ahmed Alsoudani and the chaos of Iraq.
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Apr. 23, 2009
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DRAWN AND QUARTEREDby Charlie Finch "Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Apr. 22, 2009
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POLITICS OF PAINTINGRichard Phillips and the erotics of capitalism. An interview by Alisa Barenboym and Katerina Llanes.
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Apr. 20, 2009
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"JESUS" SAVESby Jerry Saltz God bless the New Museum’s tantalizing triennial.
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Apr. 20, 2009
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COIN OPERATORby Charlie Finch William Metcalf and Yale University’s coin collection.
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Apr. 17, 2009
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Apr. 14, 2009
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LOLITOS IN FAG LIMBOby Michèle C. Cone Hernan Bas and the ambiguous desires of adolescence.
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Apr. 13, 2009
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ROMANCE OF CAPITALby Walter Robinson "Women: A Loan Exhibition from the Collection of Steven and Alexandra Cohen" at Sotheby’s New York.
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Apr. 13, 2009
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JESUS RESPONDSby Charlie Finch "Younger than Jesus" at the New Museum.
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Apr. 8, 2009
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CAILLEBOTTE IN BROOKLYNby N.F. Karlins "Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea" at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Apr. 8, 2009
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Asia on My Mindby Donald Kuspit "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989" at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Apr. 7, 2009
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THE COMING ART BOOMby Charlie Finch Market conditions are perfect for a resurgence in classic contemporary.
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Apr. 6, 2009
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JOHN JR.by Charlie Finch An image of lost youth in John Waters’ "Rear Projection."
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Mar. 31, 2009
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LEVITTATIONby Charlie Finch Helen Levitt, 1913-2009.
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Mar. 30, 2009
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ENERGY TO BURNby Jerry Saltz Two new gallery spaces in New York are, if not fully realized, rich in possibility.
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Mar. 30, 2009
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ANOTHER COUNTRYby Charlie Finch New exhibitions by Michalene Thomas and William Villalongo.
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Mar. 25, 2009
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EVACUATION OF THE WESTby Charlie Finch A downbeat look at the American West in MoMA’s "Into the Sunset."
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Mar. 23, 2009
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AFTER THE ORGYby Jerry Saltz Some art-boom heroes (Lisa Yuskavage) feel suddenly dated. Others (Rudolf Stingel) are perfectly present.
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Mar. 20, 2009
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The Artist Who Did Everythingby Jerry Saltz Martin Kippenberger offers a guide for artists looking for ways around pessimism and gamesmanship.
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Mar. 19, 2009
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GRACELANDby Charlie Finch Photographer Tanyth Berkeley and her model Grace.
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Mar. 19, 2009
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Berlin, Mon Amourby Donald Kuspit A visit to two collections of Surrealist art, Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial, and more, in Berlin.
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Mar. 17, 2009
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INCOMPLETEby Charlie Finch Dana Schutz and the perils of history.
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Mar. 16, 2009
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CHA ON THIS!by Charlie Finch Xavier Cha and the beauty factory.
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Mar. 9, 2009
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HOORAY FOR HAROLD!by Charlie Finch New tales from Abraham Lincoln expert (and Met communications chief) Harold Holzer.
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Mar. 9, 2009
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CÉZANNE AND BEYONDby N.F. Karlins A new exhibition celebrates the influence of the 19th-century artist on 18 of his 20th-century colleagues.
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Mar. 6, 2009
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MORALITY PLAYby Jerry Saltz The art market is more moral than the stock market -- isn’t it?
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Mar. 5, 2009
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BREAST MILKby Charlie Finch The price of objectification in Kathleen Gilje’s portraits of women.
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Mar. 3, 2009
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NO SMILES AT MOMAby Charlie Finch The museum stamps out a bit of free creativity.
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Mar. 3, 2009
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THE PRICING ISSUEby Richard Polsky Two difficulties with the new recessionary art market.
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Feb. 26, 2009
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EPISTLE TO KIPPYby Charlie Finch "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Feb. 25, 2009
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COLD WAR CULTURESby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp From LACMA, a wide-ranging survey of post-war German art in "Art of Two Germanys"
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Feb. 24, 2009
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BROKEN GHOSTSby Charlie Finch New work by Lisa Yuskavage and Susan Rothenberg.
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Feb. 23, 2009
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I LOVE SAATCHIby Kenny Schachter A look at the new space of the king of British art patrons.
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Feb. 18, 2009
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DOWN WITH THE CUBE!by Jerry Saltz White Columns’ anniversary show proves that galleries can (and should) enliven art.
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Feb. 18, 2009
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COPING WITH COPLANSby Charlie Finch Revisiting the photographs of the late John Coplans.
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Feb. 17, 2009
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DRAWING NOTEBOOKby N.F. Karlins "Master Drawings New York," plus major shows at the Met and the Morgan.
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Feb. 13, 2009
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GROUNDHOG’S DIARYby Charlie Finch Piero Manzoni, Imi Knoebel, Jeremy Earhart, Andrea Zittel, Kepler and Lipon, Janet Biggs, more.
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Feb. 12, 2009
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LADY COURAGEby Charlie Finch Leila Hadley Luce, 1925-2009.
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Feb. 11, 2009
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THE SHOW OF THE SEASONby Charlie Finch Tadashi Kawamata’s "Tree Huts" capture the recessionary zeitgeist.
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Feb. 11, 2009
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FASHION IS EVERYWHEREby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy A "year of fashion" at the International Center of Photography.
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Feb. 5, 2009
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WEAPONS OF MAD DESTRUCTIONby Charlie Finch Native American warrior art and artifacts at the new John Molloy Gallery in Manhattan.
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Feb. 4, 2009
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Leaving Edenby Jerry Saltz The Last Days of Pipilotti Rist’s Pour Your Body Out (7354 Meters).
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Feb. 3, 2009
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PASCAL’S PUZZLESby Charlie Finch Matt Johnson’s "Super System" inaugurates Taxter & Spengemann’s new gallery space.
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Jan. 30, 2009
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SCREWTUBEby Charlie Finch Old corporate profits in the new democratic media.
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Jan. 29, 2009
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HAVING A RAVE UP!by Charlie Finch Artist Mickalene Thomas curates "The Brand New Heavies" at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side.
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Jan. 26, 2009
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A BAD LIGHT SHOWby Charlie Finch Robert Irwin’s "Red Drawing White Drawing Black Painting"
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Jan. 22, 2009
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COLLECTVISM WORKS!by Charlie Finch Wake up from the bad-dream art world of star dealer hegemony!
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Jan. 21, 2009
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The Big Pictureby Paul Hasegawa-Overacker Shepard Fairey crafts a contemporary icon.
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Jan. 14, 2009
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THE SPROUSE HOUSEby Charlie Finch Thumbs down on the Stephen Sprouse revival.
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Jan. 13, 2009
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RENAISSANCE LOVEby Michèle C. Cone "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Jan. 12, 2009
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SURVIVAL STRATEGIESby Charlie Finch A proposal for a new, more sane and generous art market.
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Jan. 12, 2009
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MoMA’s Sex Changeby Jerry Saltz Pipilotti Rist gives a masculinist MoMA a redeeming shot of estrogen.
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Jan. 7, 2009
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QUO VADIS?by Lavinia Filippi Lawrence Weiner in Rome.
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Jan. 6, 2009
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RICCIO AT THE FRICKby N.F. Karlins "Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze" at the Frick Collection.
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Dec. 29, 2008
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WOULD DUKE APPROVE?by Charlie Finch On Robert Graham (1938-2008), and Duke Ellington.
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Dec. 22, 2008
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GREAT EXPECTATIONSby Charlie Finch Momentary encounters with the famous and renowned.
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Dec. 17, 2008
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LUST OR LIFEby Charlie Finch Kiki Seror’s motifs of carnality.
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Dec. 15, 2008
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TOP TEN 2008by Jerry Saltz The best art shows of 2008.
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Dec. 12, 2008
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PALE FIREby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp New sculptures by Rachel Whiteread and George Stoll.
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Dec. 11, 2008
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DUBIOUS DUMASby Charlie Finch Marlene Dumas’ painting is lugubrious and lazy.
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Dec. 10, 2008
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ASK MARK KOSTABIby Mark Kostabi Advice for artists in an economic downturn.
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Dec. 8, 2008
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SPANISH ABSTRACTIONby Donald Kuspit Elie Halioua’s abstract paintings reach for the "incommunicado core of the self."
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Dec. 3, 2008
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ROBERTA ON YOUTUBEby Charlie Finch The celebrated New York Times art critic tells all.
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Dec. 2, 2008
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SHERMAN’S MARCH OF TIMEby Jerry Saltz Cindy Sherman, the original chameleon of contemporary art, shows her characters aging -- and is reborn.
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Nov. 26, 2008
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GEORGES NÖEL TODAYby Walter Robinson Rediscovering the veteran French painter Georges Nöel.
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Nov. 24, 2008
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ZEN ABSTRACTIONby Donald Kuspit In Philadelphia, new sculptures, and sets for Fidelio, by Jun Kaneko.
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Nov. 19, 2008
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DRUNKEN MASTERby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp German artist Martin Kippenberger made mockery his method.
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Nov. 18, 2008
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A SILVER LININGby Charlie Finch All-female sales could cure a down market.
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Nov. 10, 2008
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World in a Bottleby Jerry Saltz Giorgio Morandi and the pleasures of being minor.
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Nov. 10, 2008
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I AM A BERLINER!by Charlie Finch Brigid Berlin, the last of the superstars.
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Nov. 6, 2008
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THE FATE OF THE $5 POLLOCKby Thomas Hoving ARTnews traces a tortuous tale of Pollock paintings and possibly pilfered fingerprints.
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Nov. 5, 2008
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WHITE ON WHITEby Charlie Finch Barack Obama rebukes William Eggleston.
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Nov. 4, 2008
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SHAKEOUT TIMEby Richard Polsky Advice for art collectors in a volatile market.
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Nov. 3, 2008
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FRIEZE AFTER THE FREEZEby Jerry Saltz At London’s big art fair, signs of financial trouble -- but maybe that’s okay.
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Oct. 31, 2008
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THE GRAND ACQUISITORby Thomas Hoving "The Philippe de Montebello Years" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Oct. 29, 2008
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MIRÓ, MIRÓ ON
THE WALLby Charlie Finch A hyperactive hodgepodge at MoMA reveals an anachronistic painter’s painter.
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Oct. 23, 2008
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BLACK LIGHT DISTRICTby Charlie Finch Sensuous and reflective craft in "Japanese Postwar Photography"
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Oct. 22, 2008
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CERAMIC HISTORYby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Ken Price talks about his long escape from "art craft hell."
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Oct. 21, 2008
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A MIRACLE FOR MUSEUMSby Thomas Hoving The Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program now has a $5-billion domestic component.
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Oct. 20, 2008
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DARK VICTORYby Jerry Saltz Vincent Van Gogh’s outrageous vulnerability.
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Oct. 16, 2008
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KING TUT IS BACK!by Thomas Hoving "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" opens at the De Young Museum in 2009.
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Oct. 15, 2008
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ANIMALISMby Charlie Finch Alexander Calder is for kids.
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Oct. 10, 2008
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DIABOLICAL SCIENCEby Simon Todd The Goth science of British artist Paul Fryer.
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Sept. 29, 2008
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LOOKING OUT FOR NO. 2by Jerry Saltz The good, the bad and the terrible of the new Chelsea art season.
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Sept. 18, 2008
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MUSEUM DATEby Jerry Saltz A colloquy with architecture critic Justin Davidson on the new Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.
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Sept. 18, 2008
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AN ALIEN VISIONby Charlie Finch "Van Gogh and the Colors of Night" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Sept. 17, 2008
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A GLORY AT THE CURRIER MUSEUMby Thomas Hoving Curator Kurt Sundstrom discovers an overlooked masterpiece by Florentine sculptor Antonio Rossellino.
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Sept. 17, 2008
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SOPHIE AND ALAIN
by Charlie Finch French Pop artist Alain Jacquet dies in New York at age 69.
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Sept. 16, 2008
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SEX, DEATH, DINNERby Jerry Saltz An art critic gets ravished by a legendary Spanish chef.
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Sept. 12, 2008
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COMFORT AND JOYby Charlie Finch New paintings by Damian Loeb and Isca Greenfield-Sanders.
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Sept. 11, 2008
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THE TRIUMPH OF SHITby Donald Kuspit Andres Serrano, Paul McCarthy and the avant-garde artist as an anal masturbator.
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Sept. 11, 2008
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TSUNAMI TIMEby Charlie Finch A retreat to curatorial sensibility in the museum world.
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Sept. 10, 2008
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DIARY OF AN ART STARby Reverend Jen Braving Hurricane Hanna for the sake of avant-garde art.
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Aug. 27, 2008
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A DEALER LOOKS BACKby Richard Polsky Changes in the art world over the last 30 years.
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Aug. 26, 2008
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DOWNEAST ROUNDUPby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Summer art in Maine, 2008.
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Aug. 25, 2008
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THINGS FALL APARTby Charlie Finch David Kramer’s new book-cum-artwork, Snake Oil.
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Aug. 20, 2008
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ANGELS ON THE GROUNDby Charlie Finch The film Beautiful Losers chronicles Alleged Gallery and the 1990s “Street Art” movement.
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Aug. 19, 2008
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REPLY TO THE OLYMPICS CONTROVERSYby Cai Guo-Qiang The Chinese art star responds to reports of digital trickery during the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.
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Aug. 12, 2008
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THE EMPERORS OF ARTby Charlie Finch Hypermaterialism from Fifth Avenue to Dubai to Beijing.
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Aug. 8, 2008
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Aug. 5, 2008
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERSby Ilka Scobie Chuck Close talks about the young artists he admires and his new tapestry work.
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July 30, 2008
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A KISS FOR KIRCHNERby Charlie Finch "Kirchner and the Berlin Street" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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July 25, 2008
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BERKSHIRE IDLERby Charlie Finch The state of the arts at Belvoir Terrace Camp in Lenox, Mass.
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July 23, 2008
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A SIGG JOKEby Charlie Finch More thoughts on the case against the Olympics in China.
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July 14, 2008
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Dia’s Last Chanceby Jerry Saltz Does Philippe Vergne have what it takes to keep Dia from being DOA?
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July 9, 2008
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TREASURES OF HAJJI BABAby N.F. Karlins "Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors" at the New-York Historical Society.
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July 9, 2008
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WATER FALLACIESby Charlie Finch Public art and the public good.
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July 8, 2008
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UBIQUITOUS ARTby Charlie Finch The idea of art is everywhere these days.
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July 7, 2008
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Take Me to the Riverby Jerry Saltz Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls come on with a wink, not a whoosh.
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July 2, 2008
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THE DELLA ROBBIA DEBACLEby Paul Jeromack A glazed terracotta by Andrea della Robbia falls off the wall at the Metropolitan Museum.
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July 2, 2008
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AN IDLER’S DIARYby Charlie Finch Julian Laverdiere, Doug Blau, Sherry Wong, Catherine Murphy, more.
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June 30, 2008
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BURIED TREASURESby Thomas Hoving Two spectacular treasures on loan to the Met.
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June 27, 2008
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OIL PAINTINGby Charlie Finch Abstract Expressionism in the sheikdom.
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June 25, 2008
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CHAOS THEORYby Charlie Finch Buckminster Fuller, Paul McCarthy, and Salvador Dali’s "Painting and Film"
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June 25, 2008
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COWBOYS IN ROMEby Lavinia Filippi Richard Prince opens at Gagosian Gallery in Rome.
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June 23, 2008
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MUGGY UGLYby Charlie Finch A new Dennis Oppenheim art project in Union Square Park definitely does not improve the summer weather.
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June 23, 2008
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Two Coats of Paintingby Jerry Saltz Tony Shafrazi, the man who tagged Guernica, tries another way of superimposing new art and old.
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June 19, 2008
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GUNS AND COLLAGESby Carlo McCormick New works from country conceptualist Mike Osterhout.
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June 17, 2008
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TALKING PICTURESby N.F. Karlins "Glossolalia" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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June 13, 2008
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MASTERPIECES BY THE MINORSby Paul Jeromack With its recent purchase of a seascape by Abraham de Verwer, the National Gallery of Art makes a smart collecting move.
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June 13, 2008
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AN IDLER’S DIARYby Charlie Finch Wandering around SoHo and Chelsea at the beginning of summer.
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June 12, 2008
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BLUE-COLLAR HEAVENby Kevin Nance A mythic vision of Chicago in Tony Fitzpatrick’s "Portraits of a Remembered City"
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June 10, 2008
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LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWNby Charlie Finch Chris Burden’s What My Dad Gave Me (2008) at Rockefeller Center.
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June 9, 2008
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AMERICAN OPTIMISTby Kevin Nance Jeff Koons is the Energizer Bunny of contemporary art.
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June 9, 2008
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STATUARY STORY
by Jerry Saltz David Altmejd’s otherworldly figures create narrative just by standing still.
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June 6, 2008
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SINISTER SKIESby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Roger Brown’s dialogue with disaster.
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June 2, 2008
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The Art World’s Space Invaderby Jerry Saltz Does a Warhol look different when it’s hanging above someone’s TV set? Ask Louise Lawler.
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May 29, 2008
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AN ART MUTUAL FUNDby Richard Polsky The Los Angeles dealer and author of I Bought Andy Warhol sets up his own "art mutual fund."
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May 28, 2008
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GOODBYE JOHNby Charlie Finch John Weber, 1932-2008.
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May 23, 2008
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LIGHT INDUSTRYby Charlie Finch Whimsy and dignity in photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher.
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May 21, 2008
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COP ROCKby Steve Mumford At combat outpost Rock in Mosul.
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May 20, 2008
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THE EYES HAVE ITby Charlie Finch Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.
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May 20, 2008
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DEATH AND THE ARTISTby Michèle C. Cone Issues of freedom and fame in the work of the Fluxus artist Yoko Ono.
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May 19, 2008
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ELIZABETH IIby Jerry Saltz Elizabeth Peyton returns to life.
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May 13, 2008
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THE ADVANCE OF BEAUTYby Donald Kuspit Thomas Chimes and Lynda Benglis at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia.
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May 12, 2008
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MISSION ABORTEDby Charlie Finch The nuances of Yale’s Aliza Shvarts controversy.
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May 8, 2008
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DIAMOND IN THE DESERTby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Neutra’s modernist Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes up for auction.
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May 7, 2008
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BACK AND FORTHby Charlie Finch John Baldessari and Matt Mullican collaborate on "Pong" at Tracy Williams, Ltd.
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May 5, 2008
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AMONG THE KURDSby Steve Mumford The war in Mosul is one of bombs.
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May 5, 2008
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PITCH PERFECTby Charlie Finch Kentucky’s art-and-culture magazine makes provinciality a glam asset.
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May 2, 2008
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BREATH OF LIFEby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy New works from the George Rickey estate at Marlborough Chelsea and Maxwell Davidson.
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Apr. 28, 2008
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WASTED YOUTHby Jerry Saltz A collaboration between superhot artists Dan Colen and Nate Lowman instantly looks dated.
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Apr. 24, 2008
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CRASH TESTby Charlie Finch Living dangerously with Anthony James.
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Apr. 24, 2008
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JOE & NANCYby N.F. Karlins Joe Brainard’s "The Nancys" get a welcome showing at Tibor de Nagy.
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Apr. 23, 2008
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THE NEW YORK CANONby Jerry Saltz Thirty years of highs and lows in the New York art world.
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Apr. 22, 2008
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ART DEALER’S DIARYby Kenny Schachter Obituary: Art Cologne -- an art dealer tolls the bell.
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Apr. 18, 2008
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FEAR STRIKES OUTby Charlie Finch Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.
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Apr. 14, 2008
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VIDEO RAVEby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Surveying "California Video" at the Getty Museum.
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Apr. 10, 2008
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BEAUX VISAGEby N.F. Karlins American portraitist Cecilia Beaux gets a long-overdue reassessment.
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Apr. 9, 2008
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PLEASURES OF EDOby Fred Stern "Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo" at Asia Society.
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Apr. 8, 2008
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THE THREAT OF LOVEby Charlie Finch Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.
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Apr. 7, 2008
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The Venus of Long Island Cityby Jerry Saltz P.S.1’s survey of feminist art shows us the birth of just about every art trend that’s in vogue today.
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Apr. 4, 2008
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WHITE MEN CAN’T PAINT!
by Charlie Finch Morgan Neville’s new film, The Cool School, on the early Los Angeles art scene.
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Apr. 4, 2008
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THE WATER OF LIFEby Donald Kuspit Fabrizio Plessi’s islands of digital art.
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Mar. 31, 2008
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HANGING AT THE HORTS’by Charlie Finch Talk of Marlene Dumas, Richard Tuttle and Jimmy Page
at Susan and Michael Hort’s private view during Armory weekend.
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Mar. 26, 2008
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A BROWN WORLDby Charlie Finch Painter Deborah Brown captures natural New York.
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Mar. 25, 2008
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ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHYby N.F. Karlins A retrospective of the work of 20th-century photographer (and Surrealist muse) Lee Miller.
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Mar. 21, 2008
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CHEERS!by Charlie Finch A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s Salon Aleman at the Park Avenue Armory.
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Mar. 19, 2008
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BETWITCHEDby Charlie Finch New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.
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Mar. 18, 2008
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NOT SO WEI OUTby Charlie Finch Ai Weiwei’s Descending Light at Mary Boone Gallery.
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Mar. 17, 2008
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STARWALKERSby Charlie Finch Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.
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Mar. 14, 2008
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MY DINNER WITH SIMONby Charlie Finch Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.
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Mar. 11, 2008
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DOOBY DOOBY DUBAIby Charlie Finch A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.
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Mar. 4, 2008
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BIENNIAL FOR ONEby Charlie Finch Go to Facebook for your own Whitbash 2008.
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Mar. 3, 2008
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Fever Dreamsby Jerry Saltz A show about archives gets brilliantly lost in the vaults.
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Feb. 27, 2008
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SUGAR SHOCKby Adrian Dannatt Ellen Berkenblit and the face of female esthetics.
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Feb. 27, 2008
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GRIDLOCKby Charlie Finch "Color Chart" at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Feb. 26, 2008
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CHILDHOOD’S ENDby Charlie Finch Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.
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Feb. 25, 2008
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ÉMINENCE GRISEby Jerry Saltz "Jasper Johns: Gray" shows off an imagination that works in non-imaginative ways.
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Feb. 22, 2008
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOWby Charlie Finch Painter Chris Martin provides Chelsea with its final triumph.
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Feb. 22, 2008
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DR. STRANGEby Charlie Finch Baird Jones, 1954-2008.
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Feb. 20, 2008
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GET SMARTby Charlie Finch "Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.
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Feb. 19, 2008
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LOVE FOR SALE
by Charlie Finch Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy.
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Feb. 14, 2008
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BROAD MINDEDby Charlie Finch Swaping curatorial souls for the favors of the wealthy.
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Feb. 11, 2008
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THE WAY IT WASby Charlie Finch The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.
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Feb. 11, 2008
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Artist in Residence
by Jerry Saltz When Guy Ben-Ner goes to Ikea, he’s not there for the meatballs.
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Feb. 8, 2008
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DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen Your favorite American idol goes on a two-city German tour.
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Feb. 7, 2008
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FATHERS AND SONS
by Charlie Finch At the Museum of Biblical Art, "The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son."
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Feb. 6, 2008
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LET THEM EAT WATERby Charlie Finch Olafur Eliasson’s "Waterfalls" is just for the good of New Yorkers.
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Feb. 4, 2008
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A COSMIC JOKE
by Charlie Finch Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was designed to be passive.
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Feb. 4, 2008
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Emerging, After All These Yearsby Jerry Saltz The gallery gold rush has allowed artists who’ve spent decades on the fringes to grab at the prize.
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Jan. 28, 2008
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CRITICAL MASSby Charlie Finch The keys to the art-critical kingdom.
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Jan. 23, 2008
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TORRID ALLEGORYby Paul Jeromack Fragonard lets it all hang out in the "Allegories of Love." |
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Jan. 22, 2008
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LATE BLOOMERby Charlie Finch Nobuhiro Ishihara’s symbolic creatures.
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Jan. 18, 2008
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CUT AND PASTEby Charlie Finch "Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
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Jan. 18, 2008
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DANGEROUS BEAUTYby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Graciela Iturbide and the astonishment of Mexico.
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Jan. 17, 2008
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REPETITIVE STRESS
by Charlie Finch Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.
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Jan. 14, 2008
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PENNMANSHIPby Charlie Finch Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.
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Jan. 9, 2008
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NAVAL GAZINGby Charlie Finch Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."
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Jan. 9, 2008
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE BIG Dby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy "Pattern and Decoration" painting returns, in two museum exhibitions.
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Jan. 4, 2008
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DUTCH MASTERSby Paul Jeromack "The Age of Rembrandt" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Jan. 3, 2008
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ECSTASY MACHINEby Jerry Saltz The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a visit to the entire world.
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Dec. 28, 2007
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WAR AND SEXby Michèle C. Cone Patriotism, propaganda and passion at Exit Art.
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Dec. 18, 2007
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DRAWING NOTEBOOK
by N.F. Karlins Contemporary artists explore the Morgan Library collection in "Drawing Connections"
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Dec. 17, 2007
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THE YEAR IN ARTby Jerry Saltz Matthew Barney, Kara Walker, Richard Prince, the Whitney, the New Museum, the Met, more.
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Dec. 12, 2007
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CRAP ON CRAPby Charlie Finch Lucian Freud’s inferior art.
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Dec. 3, 2007
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WEEKDAY UPDATEby Charlie Finch A single masterpiece on view in New York’s Chelsea art district.
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Dec. 3, 2007
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CAN YOU DIG IT?by Jerry Saltz At Gavin Brown, Urs Fischer takes a jackhammer to Chelsea itself.
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Nov. 28, 2007
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WATTS UP
by Charlie Finch Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.
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Nov. 26, 2007
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SPECTACULAR SHOWby Charlie Finch Symbols of transformation from Indian artist Bharti Kher.
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Nov. 21, 2007
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NOT A FAIRY TALEby Donald Kuspit Judy Fox’s Snow White and the Seven Sins.
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Nov. 12, 2007
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DUPED!by Charlie Finch New homonculi from cybersculptor Richard Dupont.
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Nov. 9, 2007
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© ARTby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Takashi Murakami’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
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Nov. 5, 2007
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THE WILD ONEby Jerry Saltz Steven Parrino was bent on destroying painting in order to save it.
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Nov. 2, 2007
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BLACK BOXby Charlie Finch Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.
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Nov. 1, 2007
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A LOST OPPORTUNITYby Charlie Finch Martin Puryear at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Oct. 25, 2007
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A SHOEBOX SHOWby Charlie Finch Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.
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Oct. 24, 2007
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KASHMIR HIGHby Fred Stern "The Arts of Kashmir " at Asia Society in New York.
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Oct. 19, 2007
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DIARY OF AN ART STARby Reverend Jen Back to School special: Reverend Jen’s Art Tips for Boys and Girls.
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Oct. 18, 2007
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CHINA DOLLARSby Charlie Finch What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?
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Oct. 16, 2007
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POPULAR PAINTINGSby Charlie Finch "XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.
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Oct. 15, 2007
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ANARCHY IN THE U.K.by Emilie Trice Zak Smith brings his politics and porn to London.
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Oct. 15, 2007
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LOS ANGELES COOLby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Three shows prove that Los Angeles art was hot in the 1960s.
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Oct. 12, 2007
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ART ABOUT LIFEby Charlie Finch Lisa Yuskavage versus death.
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Oct. 10, 2007
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ART INFLAMESby Charlie Finch Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.
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Oct. 9, 2007
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QUESTIONS OF CRAFTby N.F. Karlins "Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis" puts "conceptual craft" in the spotlight.
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Oct. 5, 2007
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VOLUNTEER SLAVERYby Charlie Finch Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.
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Oct. 5, 2007
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THE WATSON LOOKby Mary Barone Gordon Watson curates a decorative arts auction at Sotheby’s London.
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Oct. 3, 2007
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SHARPSHOOTERby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy He’s back: Willoughby Sharp in performance.
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Sept. 28, 2007
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PRINCE CHARMINGby Charlie Finch Richard Prince, market Leviathan.
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Sept. 27, 2007
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GOODBYE GLENNby Charlie Finch Hello Halbreich -- staff changes at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Sept. 26, 2007
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OLD SCHOOL
by Charlie Finch André Emmerich, 1924-2007
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Sept. 25, 2007
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LOOKINGby Charlie Finch When the eye is not invited in.
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Sept. 24, 2007
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FROM A TO Zby Phyllis Tuchman "All the More Real" at the Parrish Art Museum.
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Sept. 21, 2007
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FRANKINSCENSEby Charlie Finch Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.
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Sept. 21, 2007
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CONCRETE COLISEUMby Roberta Fallon Artist Mark Shetabi’s parking garages are emblems of society gone wrong.
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Sept. 19, 2007
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THE TALENTby Charlie Finch Hollywood stars and art stars, both dim.
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Sept. 17, 2007
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BACK FROM THE BRINKby Jerry Saltz MoMA relives painting’s postwar near-death experience.
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Sept. 12, 2007
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MIXED MESSAGESby Charlie Finch Marian Goodman Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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Sept. 7, 2007
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DARKNESS VISIBLEby Charlie Finch On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.
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Sept. 5, 2007
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The return of midcareerby Charlie Finch A glance at the contemporary gallery offerings in New York this fall.
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Aug. 24, 2007
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ART CLASSby Ben Davis Marx, "a new theory of the market," art and politics.
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Aug. 23, 2007
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ART OPPORTUNITIESby Charlie Finch A change in market values means a change in art values.
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Aug. 22, 2007
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SHCONTEMPORARY PREVIEWby Lee Ambrozy The new art fair in Shanghai hopes to steal Beijing’s crown as capital of Chinese contemporary art.
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Aug. 20, 2007
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THE TROUBLE
WITH YOUTHby Donald Kuspit The adolescent avant-garde versus the new Old Masters.
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Aug. 17, 2007
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JOE LEWIS: CLAIRVOYANCEby Walter Robinson From the Bronx to Chelsea, via pictoralism, minimalism and deconstruction.
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Aug. 13, 2007
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JUST BRUCEby Charlie Finch Bruce Wolmer, 1948-2007, RIP.
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Aug. 8, 2007
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FINALLY, SOMEBODY
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Rediscovering the eccentric (and influential) abstractions of Mary Heilmann.
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Aug. 6, 2007
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LIQUID SKIESby Charlie Finch Will the hedge fund crisis sink the art market?
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July 31, 2007
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THE MAGICAL MURPHYSby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy During the Jazz Age, Sara and Gerald Murphy lived life as an artistic exercise.
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July 30, 2007
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A BIZARRE COLLECTORby Charlie Finch A visit to Kykuit, the estate of the now-forgotten Nelson Rockefeller.
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July 30, 2007
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BIRDS OF PARADISEby N.F. Karlins "Justin McCarthy" at the two-year old GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in downtown Reading, Pa.
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July 25, 2007
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WELCOME TO QUADRICEPTICA IIby Lisa-Evelyn Radish Promise and perplexity at the second edition of the quadrennial Rjamuszian exhibition.
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July 23, 2007
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THEREMYby Charlie Finch Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
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July 18, 2007
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HYPING SERRAby Donald Kuspit Is Richard Serra’s sculpture the Titanic of avant-garde abstraction?
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July 17, 2007
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THE ALCHEMY OF CURATINGby Jerry Saltz Examining the 52nd Venice Biennale, Documenta XII and Sculpture Projects Münster.
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July 12, 2007
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ORWELL ON DALÍby Charlie Finch Is artistic freedom morally neutral?
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July 7, 2007
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FORM THINGby Charlie Finch The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center.
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July 2, 2007
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BIENNIAL CULTUREby Jerry Saltz Biennials are boring and bloated -- there must be a better way.
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June 29, 2007
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BIENNALE WITHOUT BARRIERSby Lavinia Filippi An interview with Robert Storr, director of the international exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
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June 27, 2007
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STINGELESEby Charlie Finch Rudolf Stingel’s graffiti art at the Whitney Museum.
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June 21, 2007
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DIARY OF AN ART STARby Reverend Jen In search of a little magic in summertime New York.
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June 20, 2007
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DOWNTOWN SALONby Ilka Scobie A conversation with Deitch Projects director Nicola Vassell.
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June 19, 2007
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BUONA SERAby Jerry Saltz Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art. Plus five good public sculptures in New York City.
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June 18, 2007
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SIMPLE THINGSby Charlie Finch Seeking small moments of mildly enlightened distinction.
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June 12, 2007
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BELIEVE ITby Joe La Placa Hirst on the market, museums, his heroes and For the Love of God.
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June 11, 2007
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ART DEALER’S DIARYby Kenny Schachter The pleasures and pitfalls of design art at Design Miami/Basel.
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June 11, 2007
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Summer Bummerby Jerry Saltz The Whitney Museum’s bad trip back to the ‘60s.
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June 5, 2007
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ARTNET DESIGNby Brook S. Mason Prouve’s Maison Tropicale sold, a "pot dealer" in New York, International Ceramics Fair, more.
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June 5, 2007
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EVERYBODY LOVES CLAUDEby Phyllis Tuchman The crowds still line up for Claude Monet at Wildenstein.
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June 4, 2007
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Deal or No Dealby Jerry Saltz Takashi Murakami’s show is nakedly commercial; "Underdog" strikes an opposite pose, to much the same effect.
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June 4, 2007
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JERSEY TRANSITby Charlie Finch If you ride Jersey Transit, you don’t need Richard Serra.
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May 30, 2007
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PHILLIPS HEADby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Phillips’ postmodern vanitas paintings feature nude women and Nazis.
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May 22, 2007
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KING OF FASHIONby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Modernist fashion icon Paul Poiret at the Metropolitan Museum.
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May 21, 2007
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IT’S BORING AT THE TOPby Jerry Saltz Is Andreas Gursky -- the highest-priced photographer alive -- running out of ideas?
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May 21, 2007
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ART HOUSEby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp ArchitectureForSale.com pioneers a new market in houses by top architects.
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May 17, 2007
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LANDSCAPES OF LONGINGby N.F. Karlins John Constable’s "Maria Bicknell Years" at Salander-O’Reilly.
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May 17, 2007
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REMEMBERING JONATHANby Charlie Finch A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.
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May 15, 2007
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Same River Twiceby Jerry Saltz Rirkrit Tiravanija makes dinner for gallerygoers. Plus, Gordon Matta-Clark.
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May 9, 2007
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COLETTE IN TRANSITby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy The celebrated performance artist presents the satin-swathed boudoir from her Maison Lumière.
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May 8, 2007
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DIAMOND IN THE DESERTby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Neutra’s modernist Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes up for auction.
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May 5, 2007
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THE AURA OF TIMELESSNESSby Donald Kuspit Desert images by Mel Pekarsky and Berber portrait photographs by Lazhar Mansouri.
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May 4, 2007
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MURAKAMI AND THE MURPHYSby Charlie Finch Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.
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May 3, 2007
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FEMALE TROUBLES
by Michèle C. Cone "Global Feminisms" is a Tsunami-sized wave of distress signals.
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Apr. 30, 2007
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NOT BUYING ITby Jerry Saltz If "Not for Sale" tells us anything, it’s that P.S.1 needs to make some changes.
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Apr. 26, 2007
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PRINCE FEIGENby Charlie Finch The quattrocento meets Ab Ex in "Sublime Convergence" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.
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Apr. 24, 2007
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PRIMAVERAby Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Robert Kushner’s new paintings evoke renewed growth and fleeting beauty.
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Apr. 23, 2007
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GET ME A BRUSH, STAT!by Jerry Saltz "High Times, Hard Times" at the National Academy Museum. Plus, Matthew Barney in a new performance.
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Apr. 18, 2007
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BITS AND PIECESby Charlie Finch Rummaging through old Manhattan with photographer Kevin Landers.
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Apr. 9, 2007
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CHARNEL KNOWLEDGEby Jerry Saltz Carroll Dunham’s wounded beasts get medieval on their own asses. Plus, Karel Funk.
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Apr. 9, 2007
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PECULIAR PEARLSby Charlie Finch Dead calm in Philip Pearlstein’s paintings.
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Apr. 2, 2007
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BOOM IN BLOOM?by Richard Polsky Will the boom continue or is it likely to fall?
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Mar. 29, 2007
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THE PAINTERLY FIGUREby Donald Kuspit Jörg Immendorff, Odd Nerdrum and Nora Speyer engage a truly human esthetic.
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Mar. 28, 2007
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DAVID LACHAPELLEby Mary Barone The celebrated glamour photographer and filmmaker talks with Mary Barone.
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Mar. 27, 2007
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RADICAL ETHIOPIAby Charlie Finch The African Christ in Ethiopian art.
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Mar. 26, 2007
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NO MAN’S LANDby Jerry Saltz Rachel Harrison ambivalently memorializes sculpture -- and men. Plus, Cary Liebowitz.
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Mar. 23, 2007
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PUSSY POWERby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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Mar. 23, 2007
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PUSSY POWERby Hunter Drohojowska-Philp "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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Mar. 22, 2007
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SPECIAL OPSby Charlie Finch Reticent retinal art, and more, on Madison Avenue.
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Mar. 22, 2007
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PLEASURE GARDENS
by Fred Stern An homage to the gardens of the East at the Sackler Gallery.
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Mar. 21, 2007
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Mar. 21, 2007
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DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen Tossing dollars at Mark Kostabi’s "Paint That Naming."
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Mar. 20, 2007
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SPIRITS IN THE WOOD
by N.F. Karlins Art and artifacts made of wood and tree bark by Woodland Indians and Australian Aborigines.
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Mar. 19, 2007
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YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
by Jerry Saltz Art market darling Terence Koh dances with skeletons and brightens the Whitney lobby. Plus, Christian Jankowski.
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Mar. 15, 2007
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SPRING OASIS
by Charlie Finch The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden.
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Mar. 12, 2007
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FUR WHAT IT’S WORTH
by Jerry Saltz Roaming beyond the art world grid with David and Chie Hammons. Plus, Sarah Anne Johnson.
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Mar. 7, 2007
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STUBBED
by Charlie Finch George Stubbs is as much an ironist as an avatar of the sublime.
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Mar. 7, 2007
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HORSES AND HISTORY
by N.F. Karlins George Stubbs at the Frick, and "European Master Drawings" at the Morgan.
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Mar. 5, 2007
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CINDERELLA
by Charlie Finch Loving Cindy Sherman as she swans into middle age.
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Feb. 27, 2007
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CRITIQUEUS INTERRUPTUS
by Jerry Saltz Andrea Fraser replaces sensationalism with adoration. Plus, Eve Sussman’s Rape of the Sabine Women.
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Feb. 21, 2007
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LOVE IN THE RUINS
by Charlie Finch Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum.
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Feb. 20, 2007
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BROKEN ANGEL
by Jerry Saltz A new exhibition rescues artist Martín Ramirez from his "Outsider" status. Plus, "Positively 27th Street."
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Feb. 12, 2007
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DILL VERSUS PRINCE
by Charlie Finch Lesley Dill and Richard Prince at the Neuberger Museum.
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Feb. 12, 2007
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THE BIGGEST PICTURE
by Jerry Saltz "Cosmologies" takes a trip through grand visions and imaginary universes. And "Beyond the Pale" at Moti Hasson Gallery.
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Feb. 9, 2007
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THE GILDED CAGE
by Charlie Finch Imagining the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
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Jan. 29, 2007
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SEEING DOLLAR SIGNS
by Jerry Saltz Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?
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Jan. 26, 2007
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GREER LANKTON, A MEMOIR
by Julia Morton Remembering East Village artist Greer Lankton on the 10th anniversary of her death.
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Jan. 22, 2007
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Pictures at an Execution
by Jerry Saltz MoMA’s "Manet and the Execution of Maximilian" and the Met’s "Glitter and Doom" illuminate history’s darkest corners.
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Jan. 10, 2007
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THE MYSTERIOUS MR. SLOMOVIC
by David D’Arcy How did a young Yugoslav end up with hundreds of artworks from the collection of French art dealer Ambroise Vollard?
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Jan. 10, 2007
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TWO THIEVES
by Charlie Finch The bohemian and the ubercollector.
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Jan. 5, 2007
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SEXUAL MORES
by Michéle C. Cone William Hogarth and the plight of women, both rich and poor.
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Jan. 2, 2007
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SNAKES IN A BOX
by Jerry Saltz Brice Marden has breathtaking ways of making things.
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Jan. 2, 2007
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THE WAY WE WERE
by Charlie Finch Remembering art as a part of life.
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Dec. 22, 2006
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NEW ORLEANS ODYSSEY
by N.F. Karlins "Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum" at Wildenstein & Company.
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Dec. 19, 2006
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SEASON OF PASSION
by Kay Itoi An interview with Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura about his new work.
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Dec. 18, 2006
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CURRIN EVENTS
by Jerry Saltz John Currin’s money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism and the inner life of paintings. Plus, Gregory Crewdson.
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Dec. 14, 2006
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THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith, plus contemporary art, at the new Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan.
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Dec. 13, 2006
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PROVOCATIVE REALISM
by Donald Kuspit New Objectivist portraiture in "Glitter and Doom" at the Metropolitan Museum.
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Dec. 6, 2006
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EVERYTHING FITS
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp John Baldessari installs "Magritte and Contemporary Art" at LACMA.
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Dec. 6, 2006
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TANIGUCHI’S REVENGE
by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.
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Dec. 5, 2006
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RAKE’S PROGRESS
by Lewis Kachur "Beyond the White Cube: A Retrospective of Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland."
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Dec. 4, 2006
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SPACE ODYSSEYS
by Jerry Saltz Imagining the future for two great institutions: Dia and the New Museum. Plus, Marilyn Minter.
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Nov. 28, 2006
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ONLY DISCONNECT
by Jerry Saltz Jeffrey Wells and Joe Deutch take us to places on the edge of language that the world can’t strip away.
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Nov. 20, 2006
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FEMALE TROUBLE
by Jerry Saltz
A plea for Lisa Yuskavage to return to her dirty-secret past. Plus, the Lower East Side at Orchard.
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Nov. 14, 2006
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CHINESE TREASURES
by N.F. Karlins
The art of the Liao at the Asia Society.
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Nov. 14, 2006
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SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
by Charlie Finch
Who says New York needs a museum of contemporary art?
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Nov. 10, 2006
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DOT DELIRIUM
by Donald Kuspit
Jennifer Bartlett’s early plate works.
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Nov. 7, 2006
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BERLIN STREET FIGHT
by Anna Blume Huttenlauch
The restitution of Kirchner’s Berlin Street Scene (1913) roils the German art world.
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Nov. 7, 2006
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BIEDERMEIER IN MILWAUKEE
by Fred Stern
The Milwaukee Art Museum mounts the first all-Biedermeier show in the U.S.
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Nov. 6, 2006
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THE WHITNEY CONTEMPORARY
by Jerry Saltz
The Whitney’s current Picasso exhibition shows that the museum needs a new vision. Plus, Marcia Tucker, R.I.P.
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Nov. 3, 2006
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THE NEW YORK LIST
A selection of things that looked good, made news or otherwise caught our eye this week.
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Nov. 2, 2006
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PASSION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
by N.F. Karlins
The romantic and artistic partnership of Tina Modotti and Edward Weston.
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Oct. 30, 2006
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THE PARALLAX VIEW
by Jerry Saltz
Mark Grotjahn undoes the insanity of a single perspective. Plus, Cimabue at the Frick.
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Oct. 26, 2006
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DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen
Lower East Side performance art meets The Price Is Right.
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Oct. 26, 2006
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BOTERO’S HUMANISM
by Donald Kuspit
Fernando Botero’s paintings of Abu Ghraib.
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Oct. 23, 2006
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THE LOST SCULPTURE PROCESS
by Phyllis Tuchman
A 20th-anniversary appreciation of the sculpture garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Oct. 23, 2006
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THE UNDEAD OF ART HISTORY
by Jerry Saltz
Dasha Shishkin’s melancholic world. Plus, emerging artists at Socrates Sculpture Park.
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Oct. 19, 2006
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MISSION CREEP
by Charlie Finch
The new catchword for museoexecs.
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Oct. 18, 2006
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THE NEW ART ARISTOCRATS
by Elliott Arkin
An interview with megacollector Adam Lindemann, author of Collecting Contemporary.
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Oct. 18, 2006
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TIME LANDSCAPES
by Walter Robinson
New cityscapes by Paul Caranicas capture the spirit of a contemporary utopia.
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Oct. 13, 2006
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LUCAS THE LOVABLE
by Donald Kuspit
Avant-garde narcissism in new works by Lucas Samaras.
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Oct. 12, 2006
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ONE GOOD PRINT
by Charlie Finch
Prints and editions from Europe at MoMA.
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Oct. 10, 2006
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THE ART WORLD JUNGLE
by Jerry Saltz
The Chelsea art district, David Zwirner and the new fall season. Plus, a visit to Spiral Jetty.
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Oct. 5, 2006
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SACRED SADNESS
by Donald Kuspit
Sean Scully’s Romantic geometry.
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Oct. 2, 2006
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WHERE THE GIRLS AREN’T
by Jerry Saltz
In the art world, the prime real estate is still a men's club. Plus, Catherine Opie.
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Sept. 25, 2006
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TAKE SOME OFF THE TABLE
by Richard Polsky
A review of the overheated contemporary art market, September 2006.
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Sept. 18, 2006
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THE TEMPEST
by Jerry Saltz
ackson Pollock’s acts of esthetic desperation. Plus, Stuart Hawkins.
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Sept. 11, 2006
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POOLS OF WONDER
by Charlie Finch
Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.
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Sept. 6, 2006
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ORCHARD UNDERGROUND
by Mary Rinebold
Miguel Abreu makes an art space on the Lower East Side.
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Sept. 5, 2006
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PLAYING IT STRAIGHT
by Jerry Saltz
Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern. Plus, the fall season begins.
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Aug. 31, 2006
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BERLIN RISING
by Anna Altman
Cutting-edge art and the Berlin cityscape.
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Aug. 28, 2006
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DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen
Making an art video starring Moby and Reverend Jen Junior, a chihuahua.
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Aug. 25, 2006
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A CRITICAL HISTORY
OF 20TH-CENTURY ART
by Donald Kuspit
Chapter 10, Part 2: The Decadence of Advanced Art and the Return of Tradition and Beauty: The New as Tower of Conceptual Babel: The Tenth Decade.
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Aug. 23, 2006
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CHARISMA CATCHER
by Heimir Björgúlfsson
In memory of Jason Rhoades and his Black Pussy cabaret.
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Aug. 16, 2006
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GIRODET’S SENSATIONALISM
by Donald Kuspit
Charismatic rebel or kitsch romantic? Populism, eroticism and revolution in David’s greatest student.
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Aug. 14, 2006
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THE COSMIC MAYA
by N.F. Karlins
At the Met, art and rituals of the Mayan kings.
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Aug. 7, 2006
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A QUIRKY COLLECTOR
by Charlie Finch
Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.
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Aug. 1, 2006
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FEET OF CLAY
by Charlie Finch
Since when does money create masterpieces?
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July 26, 2006
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ART DEALER’S DIARY
by Kenny Schachter
Forget the art fairs, give me the British International Motor Show.
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July 20, 2006
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SUMMIT ST. PETERSBURG
by Kate Sutton
Exhibitions at the Russian city’s museums during the G8 Summit.
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July 17, 2006
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A BEAUTIFUL MIND
by Phyllis Tuchman
Frank Stella’s breakthrough year.
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July 14, 2006
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BABES IN LOYLAND
by Charlie Finch
German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.
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July 10, 2006
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GRACE, DEPRAVITY AND GRANDEUR
by Jerry Saltz
The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece and Cecil B. DeMille, in the paintings of Veronese.
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July 7, 2006
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PORTRAIT AMERICA
by N.F. Karlins
The Smithsonian reopens its American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.
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July 5, 2006
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THE SUBLIME IS US
by Jerry Saltz
In new work by Klara Liden, the unfathomable feelings of being alive. Plus, Justin Lowe.
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June 29, 2006
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BOMB-A-RAMA
by Paul Jeromack
A look back at the auction fiasco of 2006.
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June 22, 2006
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CASH, CLOWNS, AND CARNIVAL
by Jerry Saltz
Martin Eder and Cosima von Bonin, two German artists in Chelsea. Plus, Halsey Rodman.
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June 19, 2006
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The Great Picabia
by Charlie Finch
Francis Picabia is the star of "Dada" at MoMA.
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June 12, 2006
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RECONSTRUCTION ZONE
by Jerry Saltz
Ted Riederer’s quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable. Plus, Stephen Shore.
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June 7, 2006
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BORDEL MAGNIFIQUE
by Chris Sharp
The French ministry of culture hazards "La Force de l’Art" at the Nef du Grand Palais.
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June 2, 2006
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SHE’S NOT THERE
by Jerry Saltz
Sharon Lockhart’s "Pine Flat" photographs, all subject matter and no content. Plus, Francis Cape.
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May 26, 2006
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ABSALOM, O ABSALOM
by Jerry Saltz
Photos of "The American War" from Ho Chi Minh City by Harrell Fletcher. Plus, Mark Hogancamp’s therapeutic war diorama.
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May 24, 2006
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EXCELLENCE HAS [NO] SEX
by Michèle C. Cone
Two new exhibitions give us an Eva Hesse for the 21st century.
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May 9, 2006
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LEVIATHAN
by Jerry Saltz
Matthey Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9 touches on everything. Plus, Xavier Cha.
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May 5, 2006
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OLD FRIENDS
by Charlie Finch
Notes on Jocelyn Hobbie, Lisa Ruyter and Kerri Scharlin.
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May 2, 2006
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Sale Away
by Jerry Saltz
Couldn’t six Texas millionaires chip in and buy a group of Judds? Plus, Alex McQuilkin.
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Apr. 26, 2006
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GYPSY
by Jerry Saltz
Amy Sillman, a nervy painter who loves mid-century abstraction
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Apr. 21, 2006
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MiArt 2006
by Joe La Placa
China is the guest country at Italy’s top contemporary art fair.
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Apr. 19, 2006
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MARFA ON MY MIND
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
A visit to Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation art museum in Marfa, Texas.
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Apr. 18, 2006
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COLLECTING CELEBRITY ART
by Baird Jones
Art by movie stars, athletes, musicians and other pop-culture idols.
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Apr. 14, 2006
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ART MARKET WATCH
by Paul Jeromack
Christie’s sells a Turner for $35.8 million.
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Apr. 12, 2006
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THE SEVENTH CIRCLE
by Jerry Saltz
Nan Goldin is giving us the moment before she will turn to ash. Plus, Paul Shambroom.
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Apr. 4, 2006
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WORLD OF WOMEN
by Charlie Finch
"Bearings: The Female Figure" at PS122 Gallery in Manhattan.
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Apr. 3, 2006
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HEAPS AND CONSEQUENCES
by Jerry Saltz
Tara Donovan’s undulating, otherworldly river valley. Plus, Judith Linhares.
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Mar. 31, 2006
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CHASING THE DRAGON
by Oriane Stender
Nan Goldin’s Sisters, Saints and Sibyls premieres in New York.
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Mar. 27, 2006
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OVERWHELMING LIFE
by Ana Finel Honigman
Alex McQuilkin tells why we should all stop worrying about her.
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Mar. 28, 2006
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QUEEN OF NIGHT
by Jerry Saltz
Kara Walker’s language of tattered words and shadow plays. Plus, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.
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Mar. 23, 2006
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A LA SCHIFANO
by Ilka Scobie
A survey of the Italian Pop artist’s work opens in Milan.
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Mar. 23, 2006
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NO REWIND
by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
The last rites of Nam June Paik.
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Mar. 22, 2006
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OLD MASTERS, NEW EDGE
by Brook Mason
Bigger, better, more important at TEFAF Maastricht 2006.
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Mar. 16, 2006
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LOOKING FOR ISLAM
by P.C. Smith
"Without Boundary" at the Museum of Modern Art surveys Islamic sensibilities in western art.
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Mar. 13, 2006
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HARDCORE
by Jerry Saltz
Charline von Heyl’s painting is a snake pit of styles.
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Mar. 10, 2006
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STOP THE INSANITY!
by Charlie Finch
Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.
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Mar. 2, 2006
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BIENNIAL IN BABYLON
by Jerry Saltz
The "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night" is lively, brainy and self-conscious. Plus, Kelley Walker.
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Feb. 27, 2006
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IDOL THOUGHTS
by Jerry Saltz
The glory of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking "moneybags piss pot."
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Feb. 21, 2006
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TREE OF LIFE
by N.F. Karlins
Unraveling the symbols of the past at the Ukrainian Museum.
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Feb. 15, 2006
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THE ROYAL HALF
by Phyllis Tuchman
The treasures of Hesse at the Portland Art Museum.
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Feb. 14, 2006
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INTERROGATION NATION
by Jerry Saltz
Walid Raad makes art that is like a communiqué from a secret agent. Plus shows by Joe Zucker and Sally Smart.
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Feb. 8, 2006
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THE NEW SCENESTERS
by Pedro Velez A hardscrabble renaissance of art and music in Puerto Rico.
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