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DIAMOND IN THE DESERT
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

May 7, 2008
The redefinition of architecture as art is continuing in the marketplace. Over the past few years, Pierre Koenig’s 1958 Case Study House # 21 sold at Wright Auctions for $3.2 million; Mies Van Der Rohe’s 1951 Farnsworth House went for $7.5 million through Sotheby’s. Can Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House in Palm Springs fetch $15 to $25 million? Christie’s bets that the fully restored gem of modernism can compete with the record-breaking prices being paid for modern and contemporary art. Like a $25-million David Smith sculpture, it’s from a similar period, and also made of metal. And you can live in the house.

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May
May 7, 2008
BACK AND FORTH
by Charlie Finch
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican collaborate on "Pong" at Tracy Williams, Ltd.
May 5, 2008
THE DAY THE LIGHTS WENT ON
by Jerry Saltz
Dan Flavin’s 1964 breakout show, in meticulous reproduction.
May 5, 2008
PITCH PERFECT
by Charlie Finch
Kentucky’s art-and-culture magazine makes provinciality a glam asset.
May 2, 2008
BREATH OF LIFE
by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
New works from the George Rickey estate at Marlborough Chelsea and Maxwell Davidson.
April
Apr. 29, 2008
SCHNABEL AND HIS DOUBLES
by Charlie Finch
The magic formula behind the success of Julian Schnabel’s films.
Apr. 28, 2008
WASTED YOUTH
by Jerry Saltz
A collaboration between superhot artists Dan Colen and Nate Lowman instantly looks dated.
Apr. 24, 2008
CRASH TEST
by Charlie Finch
Living dangerously with Anthony James.
Apr. 24, 2008
JOE & NANCY
by N.F. Karlins
Joe Brainard’s "The Nancys" get a welcome showing at Tibor de Nagy.
Apr. 23, 2008
THE NEW YORK CANON
by Jerry Saltz
Thirty years of highs and lows in the New York art world.
Apr. 22, 2008
ART DEALER’S DIARY
by Kenny Schachter
Obituary: Art Cologne -- an art dealer tolls the bell.
Apr. 21, 2008
DID I TELL YOU THE ONE ABOUT THE CONTRACTOR IN IRAQ?
by Steve Mumford
On the way to Mosul in Iraq in the spring of 2008.
Apr. 21, 2008
RUNNING, JUMPING, STANDING STILL
by Charlie Finch
Nobility and vigor in Elizabeth Peyton’s new works.
Apr. 18, 2008
FEAR STRIKES OUT
by Charlie Finch
Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.
Apr. 17, 2008
FAKE IT 'TIL
YOU MAKE IT

by Charlie Finch
Olafur Eliasson and the illusion of taste.
Apr. 14, 2008
VIDEO RAVE
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Surveying "California Video" at the Getty Museum.
Apr. 10, 2008
BEAUX VISAGE
by N.F. Karlins
American portraitist Cecilia Beaux gets a long-overdue reassessment.
Apr. 9, 2008
PLEASURES OF EDO
by Fred Stern
"Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo" at Asia Society.
Apr. 8, 2008
THE THREAT OF LOVE
by Charlie Finch
Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.
Apr. 7, 2008
The Venus of Long Island City
by 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.
Apr. 4, 2008
WHITE MEN CAN’T PAINT!
by Charlie Finch
Morgan Neville’s new film, The Cool School, on the early Los Angeles art scene.
Apr. 4, 2008
THE WATER OF LIFE
by Donald Kuspit
Fabrizio Plessi’s islands of digital art.
March
Mar. 31, 2008
DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen
Touring the new Lower East Side gallery scene.
Mar. 31, 2008
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.
Mar. 26, 2008
A BROWN WORLD
by Charlie Finch
Painter Deborah Brown captures natural New York.
Mar. 25, 2008
ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
by N.F. Karlins
A retrospective of the work of 20th-century photographer (and Surrealist muse) Lee Miller.
Mar. 24, 2008
When Cool turns Cold
by Jerry Saltz
Towards a No Painting Biennial.
Mar. 21, 2008
CHEERS!
by Charlie Finch
A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s Salon Aleman at the Park Avenue Armory.
Mar. 20, 2008
THE RETURN OF MAX ESTENGER
by Charlie Finch
New works by the artist from Queens.
Mar. 19, 2008
BETWITCHED
by Charlie Finch
New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.
Mar. 18, 2008
NOT SO WEI OUT
by Charlie Finch
Ai Weiwei’s Descending Light at Mary Boone Gallery.
Mar. 17, 2008
STARWALKERS
by Charlie Finch
Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.
Mar. 14, 2008
MY DINNER WITH SIMON
by Charlie Finch
Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.
Mar. 11, 2008
DOOBY DOOBY DUBAI
by Charlie Finch
A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.
Mar. 7, 2008
ESTHETICS AND ANASTHESIA
by Simon Todd
An interview with the English artist Keith Coventry.
Mar. 4, 2008
BIENNIAL FOR ONE
by Charlie Finch
Go to Facebook for your own Whitbash 2008.
Mar. 3, 2008
Fever Dreams
by Jerry Saltz
A show about archives gets brilliantly lost in the vaults.
February
Feb. 29, 2008
OUR LONG CULTURAL NIGHTMARE WILL SOON BE OVER
by Jerry Saltz
Thomas Krens steps down as director of the Guggenheim Museum.
Feb. 28, 2008
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
by Charlie Finch
Thomas Krens, father of the global art plutocracy.
Feb. 27, 2008
SUGAR SHOCK
by Adrian Dannatt
Ellen Berkenblit and the face of female esthetics.
Feb. 27, 2008
GRIDLOCK
by Charlie Finch
"Color Chart" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Feb. 26, 2008
CHILDHOOD’S END
by Charlie Finch
Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.
Feb. 25, 2008
ÉMINENCE GRISE
by Jerry Saltz
"Jasper Johns: Gray" shows off an imagination that works in non-imaginative ways.
Feb. 22, 2008
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
by Charlie Finch
Painter Chris Martin provides Chelsea with its final triumph.
Feb. 22, 2008
DR. STRANGE
by Charlie Finch
Baird Jones, 1954-2008.
Feb. 20, 2008
GET SMART
by Charlie Finch
"Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.
Feb. 19, 2008
LOVE FOR SALE
by Charlie Finch
Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy.
Feb. 14, 2008
BROAD MINDED
by Charlie Finch
Swaping curatorial souls for the favors of the wealthy.
Feb. 12, 2008
THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM
by Donald Kuspit
The whimper of "Jasper Johns: Gray" at the Metropolitan Museum.
Feb. 11, 2008
THE WAY IT WAS
by Charlie Finch
The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.
Feb. 11, 2008
Artist in Residence
by Jerry Saltz
When Guy Ben-Ner goes to Ikea, he’s not there for the meatballs.
Feb. 8, 2008
DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen
Your favorite American idol goes on a two-city German tour.
Feb. 7, 2008
FATHERS AND SONS
by Charlie Finch
At the Museum of Biblical Art, "The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son."
Feb. 6, 2008
LET THEM EAT WATER
by Charlie Finch
Olafur Eliasson’s "Waterfalls" is just for the good of New Yorkers.
Feb. 4, 2008
A COSMIC JOKE
by Charlie Finch
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was designed to be passive.
Feb. 4, 2008
Emerging, After All These Years
by Jerry Saltz
The gallery gold rush has allowed artists who’ve spent decades on the fringes to grab at the prize.
January
Jan. 28, 2008
CRITICAL MASS
by Charlie Finch
The keys to the art-critical kingdom.
Jan. 23, 2008
TORRID ALLEGORY
by Paul Jeromack
Fragonard lets it all hang out in the "Allegories of Love."
Jan. 22, 2008
LATE BLOOMER
by Charlie Finch
Nobuhiro Ishihara’s symbolic creatures.
Jan. 18, 2008
CUT AND PASTE
by Charlie Finch
"Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
Jan. 18, 2008
DANGEROUS BEAUTY
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Graciela Iturbide and the astonishment of Mexico.
Jan. 17, 2008
REPETITIVE STRESS
by Charlie Finch
Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.
Jan. 14, 2008
PENNMANSHIP
by Charlie Finch
Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.
Jan. 9, 2008
NAVAL GAZING
by Charlie Finch
Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."
Jan. 9, 2008
THE TRIUMPH OF THE BIG D
by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
"Pattern and Decoration" painting returns, in two museum exhibitions.
Jan. 7, 2008
WHAT MAKES A MASTERPIECE
by Charlie Finch
A tale of the art market, 2008.
Jan. 4, 2008
DUTCH MASTERS
by Paul Jeromack
"The Age of Rembrandt" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jan. 4, 2008
OUT ON A LIMB FOR 2008
by Charlie Finch
Scoping out the new year.
Jan. 3, 2008
ECSTASY MACHINE
by Jerry Saltz
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a visit to the entire world.
December
Dec. 29, 2007
THE ASHES OF CHARISMA
by Charlie Finch
Contemporary artists and their pretensions.
Dec. 28, 2007
WAR AND SEX
by Michèle C. Cone
Patriotism, propaganda and passion at Exit Art.
Dec. 21, 2007
A CHRISTMAS EVE MEMORY
by Charlie Finch
New York City in the 1950s.
Dec. 19, 2007
TROLLING AT THE TROLL
by Charlie Finch
A new museum opens on the Lower East Side.
Dec. 18, 2007
DRAWING NOTEBOOK
by N.F. Karlins
Contemporary artists explore the Morgan Library collection in "Drawing Connections"
Dec. 17, 2007
THE YEAR IN ART
by Jerry Saltz
Matthew Barney, Kara Walker, Richard Prince, the Whitney, the New Museum, the Met, more.
Dec. 14, 2007
ART AND THE PRESIDENCY
by Charlie Finch
Art takes a leave from the 2008 campaign.
Dec. 13, 2007
WAITING FOR GAGOSIAN
by Lavinia Filippi
Gagosian Gallery opens a space in Rome.
Dec. 12, 2007
CRAP ON CRAP
by Charlie Finch
Lucian Freud’s inferior art.
Dec. 10, 2007
Little House on the Bowery
by Jerry Saltz
Has the New Museum sold itself short?
Dec. 7, 2007
CLASSICS AND COMMERCIALS
by Charlie Finch
Selling art and selling out.
Dec. 3, 2007
WEEKDAY UPDATE
by Charlie Finch
A single masterpiece on view in New York’s Chelsea art district.
Dec. 3, 2007
CAN YOU DIG IT?
by Jerry Saltz
At Gavin Brown, Urs Fischer takes a jackhammer to Chelsea itself.
November
Nov. 30, 2007
EVE OF DESTRUCTION
by Charlie Finch
Employing entropy in the world of art.
Nov. 28, 2007
THE UNCURATORIAL CURATOR
by Ilka Scobie
An interview with New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni.
Nov. 28, 2007
WATTS UP
by Charlie Finch
Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.
Nov. 28, 2007
ALL-STARS AND ART STARS
by Daniel Grant
The fine art of being a sports artist.
Nov. 26, 2007
SPECTACULAR SHOW
by Charlie Finch
Symbols of transformation from Indian artist Bharti Kher.
Nov. 26, 2007
Where Are All the Women?
by Jerry Saltz
On MoMA’s identity politics.
Nov. 21, 2007
NOT A FAIRY TALE
by Donald Kuspit
Judy Fox’s Snow White and the Seven Sins.
Nov. 21, 2007
ESTRANGED IN A STRANGE LAND
by Charlie Finch
Hu Xiangdong packages China for consumption.
Nov. 20, 2007
SWEETNESS IS LIGHT
by Julia Morton
Cosimo Cavallaro’s chocolate saints.
Nov. 20, 2007
THE VIRTUES OF TRANSPARENCY
by Charlie Finch
Time to smash open the doors of auctionland.
Nov. 14, 2007
EYE CANDY V.
HARD CANDY

by Julia Morton
Whitney Museum curator Shamim Momin talks the talk.
Nov. 13, 2007
AN EXPLOSION OF COLOR, IN BLACK AND WHITE
by Jerry Saltz
Kara Walker’s silhouettes don’t just broach America’s touchiest subject -- they detonate it.
Nov. 12, 2007
DUPED!
by Charlie Finch
New homonculi from cybersculptor Richard Dupont.
Nov. 9, 2007
© ART
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Takashi Murakami’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
Nov. 8, 2007
PECULIAR INSTITUTIONS
by Charlie Finch
Remembering galleries of times past.
Nov. 5, 2007
THE WILD ONE
by Jerry Saltz
Steven Parrino was bent on destroying painting in order to save it.
Nov. 2, 2007
BLACK BOX
by Charlie Finch
Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.
Nov. 1, 2007
A LOST OPPORTUNITY
by Charlie Finch
Martin Puryear at the Museum of Modern Art.
October
Oct. 26, 2007
A NOT-SO-VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY
by Charlie Finch
The art blogs and their nonexistent readers.
Oct. 25, 2007
A SHOEBOX SHOW
by Charlie Finch
Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.
Oct. 24, 2007
KASHMIR HIGH
by Fred Stern
"The Arts of Kashmir " at Asia Society in New York.
Oct. 23, 2007
I AM STONED (ARE YOU STONED?)
by Charlie Finch
The secret Conceptual Art techniques of Lawrence Weiner.
Oct. 22, 2007
The Elephant
in the Room

by Jerry Saltz
Why you should give a crap about Chris Ofili’s new paintings.
Oct. 19, 2007
DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen
Back to School special: Reverend Jen’s Art Tips for Boys and Girls.
Oct. 18, 2007
CHINA DOLLARS
by Charlie Finch
What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?
Oct. 16, 2007
POPULAR PAINTINGS
by Charlie Finch
"XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.
Oct. 15, 2007
ANARCHY IN THE U.K.
by Emilie Trice
Zak Smith brings his politics and porn to London.
Oct. 15, 2007
LOS ANGELES COOL
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Three shows prove that Los Angeles art was hot in the 1960s.
Oct. 12, 2007
ART ABOUT LIFE
by Charlie Finch
Lisa Yuskavage versus death.
Oct. 10, 2007
ART MARKET GUIDE 2007
by Richard Polsky
A look at the art market, October 2007.
Oct. 10, 2007
ART INFLAMES
by Charlie Finch
Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.
Oct. 9, 2007
QUESTIONS OF CRAFT
by N.F. Karlins
"Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis" puts "conceptual craft" in the spotlight.
Oct. 5, 2007
VOLUNTEER SLAVERY
by Charlie Finch
Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.
Oct. 5, 2007
THE WATSON LOOK
by Mary Barone
Gordon Watson curates a decorative arts auction at Sotheby’s London.
Oct. 3, 2007
SHARPSHOOTER
by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
He’s back: Willoughby Sharp in performance.
Oct. 2, 2007
WHY ARE THE GRINGOS IN COLOMBIA?
by Steve Mumford
Stories from the Baghdad 28th Combat Support Hospital.
September
Sept. 28, 2007
PRINCE CHARMING
by Charlie Finch
Richard Prince, market Leviathan.
Sept. 27, 2007
GOODBYE GLENN
by Charlie Finch
Hello Halbreich -- staff changes at the Museum of Modern Art.
Sept. 26, 2007
OLD SCHOOL
by Charlie Finch
André Emmerich, 1924-2007
Sept. 25, 2007
LOOKING
by Charlie Finch
When the eye is not invited in.
Sept. 24, 2007
FROM A TO Z
by Phyllis Tuchman
"All the More Real" at the Parrish Art Museum.
Sept. 24, 2007
HOW TO REBUILD THE GUGGENHEIM
by Jerry Saltz
Trying to take the "heim" out of the Guggenheim.
Sept. 21, 2007
FRANKINSCENSE
by Charlie Finch
Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.
Sept. 21, 2007
CONCRETE COLISEUM
by Roberta Fallon
Artist Mark Shetabi’s parking garages are emblems of society gone wrong.
Sept. 19, 2007
THE TALENT
by Charlie Finch
Hollywood stars and art stars, both dim.
Sept. 17, 2007
BACK FROM THE BRINK
by Jerry Saltz
MoMA relives painting’s postwar near-death experience.
Sept. 17, 2007
THE MACHINE SELF AND THE SQUIGGLE GAME
by Donald Kuspit
Rebecca Horn’s performance of her body ego.
Sept. 12, 2007
MIXED MESSAGES
by Charlie Finch
Marian Goodman Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Sept. 10, 2007
ANOTHER OPENING, ANOTHER SHOW
by Charlie Finch
Deborah Kass at Kasmin -- and Bottino -- plus the Collector Fair.
Sept. 7, 2007
DARKNESS VISIBLE
by Charlie Finch
On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.
Sept. 5, 2007
The return of midcareer
by Charlie Finch
A glance at the contemporary gallery offerings in New York this fall.
August
Aug. 27, 2007
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
by Jerry Saltz
Remembering Elizabeth Murray.
Aug. 24, 2007
ART CLASS
by Ben Davis
Marx, "a new theory of the market," art and politics.
Aug. 23, 2007
ART OPPORTUNITIES
by Charlie Finch
A change in market values means a change in art values.
Aug. 22, 2007
SHCONTEMPORARY PREVIEW
by Lee Ambrozy
The new art fair in Shanghai hopes to steal Beijing’s crown as capital of Chinese contemporary art.
Aug. 21, 2007
DIARY OF AN ART STAR
by Reverend Jen
Art, sun and revelation in the Hamptons.
Aug. 20, 2007
THE TROUBLE
WITH YOUTH

by Donald Kuspit
The adolescent avant-garde versus the new Old Masters.
Aug. 17, 2007
HOW HE PAINTS HIS MASTERPIECE
by Charlie Finch
Waiting for Bob Dylan’s painting exhibition.
Aug. 17, 2007
JOE LEWIS: CLAIRVOYANCE
by Walter Robinson
From the Bronx to Chelsea, via pictoralism, minimalism and deconstruction.
Aug. 13, 2007
JUST BRUCE
by Charlie Finch
Bruce Wolmer, 1948-2007, RIP.
Aug. 8, 2007
FINALLY, SOMEBODY
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Rediscovering the eccentric (and influential) abstractions of Mary Heilmann.
Aug. 6, 2007
LIQUID SKIES
by Charlie Finch
Will the hedge fund crisis sink the art market?
July
July 31, 2007
THE MAGICAL MURPHYS
by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
During the Jazz Age, Sara and Gerald Murphy lived life as an artistic exercise.
July 30, 2007
A BIZARRE COLLECTOR
by Charlie Finch
A visit to Kykuit, the estate of the now-forgotten Nelson Rockefeller.
July 30, 2007
BIRDS OF PARADISE
by N.F. Karlins
"Justin McCarthy" at the two-year old GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in downtown Reading, Pa.