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Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
1927
Phillips Collection

Lynn Stern
PHOTO ABSTRACTIONS
by Donald Kuspit

May 10, 2012

The first photograph was abstract, however inadvertently. It was made by Joseph Niépce in 1826 or 1827. Here is Douwe Draaisma’s description of it: “The exposure time was a full eight hours. In this way an ‘impossible’ image was created: the opposite walls have both caught the sunlight. The afternoon sun erased the morning shadows.”(1)

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May

May 9, 2012	Close Encounters SCHIAPARELLI AND PRADA AT THE MET by Linda Yablonsky “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conservations” at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

May 9, 2012	Norman Bluhm WHAT'S WRONG AND RIGHT ABOUT ONE PAINTING by Charlie Finch The office lobby at 499 Park gets a mural-sized painting by the late baroque abstractionist Norman Bluhm (1921-1999.)

May 8, 2012	Frieze New York 2012 MOVING IN AND MOVING UP by Jerry Saltz Why the Frieze Art Fair could solve the New York art fair problem.

May 8, 2012	Beth Campbell BETHLEHEM by Charlie Finch Conceptual artist Beth Campbell transforms the cosmos into social media.

May 7, 2012	Darren Bader HORNY DIP by Charlie Finch Darren Bader's French Horn with Guacamole was the hit of Frieze NY -- now, let's parse its meaning.

May 3, 2012	Art Market Watch WHAT MONEY LIKES by Charlie Finch The sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream for $119 million prompts a definition of "market esthetics."

May 2, 2012	Tennessee Williams STELLA AND HER STARS by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick pays homage to the great American playwright, Tennessee Williams, who wrote insightful and empathetic roles for women that have no equal.

May 1, 2012	New Art MAGIC AMID THE MONEY by Jerry Saltz Reject the market. Embrace the market. How I’ve found new magic amid all that money.

May 1, 2012	Close Encounters THE 4TH ANNUAL DALLAS ART FAIR by Linda Yablonsky Almost 80 galleries gathered in the Big D for a Texas-style art fair.

April

Apr. 26, 2012	THE FAILURE OF COOPER UNION by Charlie Finch A personal view of the legendary East Village school, founded to offer a tuition-free education.

Apr. 26, 2012	AI WEIWEI AT WHITE BOX by Emily Nathan Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is honored at White Box, joining the action live via Skype.

Apr. 25, 2012	Carol Brown Goldberg AT THE CENTER by Donald Kuspit Carol Brown Goldberg's hand at drawing is as deft, swift and masterful as the medium's masters -- Matisse, Dürer and Rembrandt.

Apr. 25, 2012	Affinities and Enchantments: CAROL BROWN GOLDBERG'S DRAWINGS by Donald Kuspit Carol Brown Goldberg's hand at drawing is as deft, swift and masterful as the medium's masters -- Matisse, Dürer and Rembrandt.

Apr. 24, 2012	OBAMA VERSUS ROMNEY by Charlie Finch As an African-American and a Mormon face off in the 2012 presidential race, expect the unexpected.

Apr. 23, 2012	Paul Etienne Lincoln GILDING THE ACORN by Elisabeth Kley Artist Paul Etienne Lincoln unveils his poetic, hand-tooled machine -- a singing, schnapps-dispensing mechanical pig -- at Tribeca's Duane Park cabaret.

Apr. 23, 2012	Art Dealer's Diary FAIR FATIGUE AT ART COLOGNE 2012 by Kenny Schachter Along with a few kudos, a generally dyspeptic view of Art Cologne 46, Apr. 18-22, 2012.

Apr. 23, 2012	GOODBYE JACKIE by Charlie Finch RIP Jackie McAllister, 1962-2012, artist, curator and critic, from complications of a stroke.

Apr. 20, 2012	"Snapshot" POST-IMPRESSIONIST PICTURE THEORY by Emily Nathan Elizabeth W. Easton’s “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard” is a revelation.

Apr. 19, 2012	Kathy Ruttenberg IN THE FEMALE UNCONSCIOUS by Donald Kuspit Kathy Ruttenberg's ceramic sculptures seem to have sprung directly from the artist's sensual, down-to-earth unconscious.

Apr. 18, 2012	Christopher Wool CONTROLLED BELLIGERENCE by Elizabeth Kley A new exhibition of Christopher Wool's silkscreens on canvas at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.

Apr. 17, 2012	Mel Bochner CONSTELLATION OF IDEAS by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp In “Theory of Sculpture: Fontana’s Light,” Mel Bochner revisits his early Conceptual Art pieces through a lens of bright glass.

Apr. 16, 2012	LESS IS LESS ON THE L.E.S. by Charlie Finch Apr. 16, 2012 A ramble through the Lower East Side gallery scene, with Half Gallery, Frosch & Portmann, Lesley Heller, Blackston and Munch.

Apr. 16, 2012	Egyptian Art EGYPT, THE EARLY YEARS by N.F. Karlins A look at the mysterious relics from the predynastic era in “The Dawn of Egyptian Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Apr. 14, 2012	Bipolar Paintings PETER HOWSON, THE SCOTTISH BOSCH by Donald Kuspit Artist Peter Howson, whose new works are on view at Flowers Gallery in New York, renews the religiosity of painting.

Apr. 13, 2012	IS BLACK ART TOO KITSCHY? by Charlie Finch African-American artists, now finally in some form of ascendancy, have used ornament for a new burst of visual expression.

Apr. 13, 2012	LOST ANGEL by Tony Fitzpatrick Art fairs, biennials, the “art-world clown car” and a bold proposal for Chicago’s new cultural plan.

Apr. 11, 2012	Fred Wilson BLACK AND WHITE AND NOTHING IN BETWEEN by Donald Kuspit Apr. 11, 2012 Fred Wilson's "Venice Suite," responding to Pietro Longhi, is a study in contrasts between the popularizing and the avant-garde.

Apr. 11, 2012	Rammellzee NOW, VOYAGER by Carlo McCormick A Hip-Hop genius and artistic pioneer, Rammellzee conjured another universe far more magical than our own.

Apr. 11, 2012	RIP THOMAS KINKADE by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on the passing of Thomas Kinkade, the self-described "painter of light," 1958-2012.

Apr. 9, 2012	WHY IS AMERICAN TASTE SO CRAPPY? by Charlie Finch The death of kitsch painter Thomas Kinkade reminds us that America leads the world in cultural crap.

Apr. 5, 2012	Pedro E. Guerrero PHOTOGRAPHS OF MODERN LIFE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp A show of the architectural photographs of 94-year-old Pedro E. Guerrero focuses on Wright, Calder and Nevelson.

Apr. 5, 2012	Art Law THE KNOEDLER-ROSALES CASE: A DEALER’S DEFENSE by Daniel Grant Art dealer Ann Freedman arguments in the case of the Knoedler-Rosales forgery allegations.

Apr. 4, 2012	WILD STRAWBERRIES AT 55 by Charlie Finch Revisiting the legacy of Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergmann, and the beautiful women he cast in his films.

Apr. 3, 2012	William Bailey CONSTRUCTED HALLUCINATIONS by Donald Kuspit William Bailey's paintings are abstract fantasies whose forms and colors are more important than their emotional and social meaning.

Apr. 3, 2012	Art Law READING THE TEA LEAVES IN THE KNOEDLER MESS by Daniel Grant Caught up in an FBI investigation and numerous lawsuits, the now-defunct Knoedler & Company gallery and its former director face a long slog..

Apr. 2, 2012	Morley Safer PLAYING IT SAFER by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on Morley Safer's facile 60-Minutes art-world screed.

March

Mar. 30, 2012	Close Encounters A PEEPSHOW AT THE MET by Linda Yablonsky The Metropolitan Museum’s “Naked before the Camera” studies the history of nude photography.

Mar. 28, 2012	Ceramics in L.A. FEATS OF CLAY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Tempests about teapots? The real story of avant-garde Los Angeles ceramics, via two exhibitions sponsored by the Getty's PST initiative.

Mar. 28, 2012	BABE by Tony Fitzpatrick An homage to Lou Beach, "one of our greatest living collagists.

Mar. 27, 2012	DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD by Charlie Finch RIP Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012, the art critic with the worst eye ever.

Mar. 26, 2012	Dependent Art Fair EIGHT HOURS AT THE COMFORT INN by Jerry Saltz The zingiest art fair of the season was a one-day event in a Lower East Side motel.

Mar. 23, 2012	Exit Art EXIT INTERVIEW by Rachel Corbett The beloved indie-art space says goodbye with a final exhibition, "Every Exit is an Entrance," a retrospective of its own 30-year history.

Mar. 23, 2012	Whitney Biennial 2012 ROMPER ROOM by Charlie Finch Is the 2012 Whitney Biennial so fake it makes your skin crawl?

Mar. 23, 2012	DEFENDING PAINTING AND SCULPTURE by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch makes a case for the "fixed world of painting and sculpture," often sidelined in favor of performance art.

Mar. 21, 2012	Delia Brown DELIA BROWN GETS SERIOUS, SORT OF by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The subjects of the artist Delia Brown, seen in a pair of shows in Los Angeles at Angles Gallery and Martha Otero.

Mar. 21, 2012	Zhang Jian LOOKING ON by Charlie Finch The liberty of looking at one painting -- Zhang Jian's Chang-An Street at Martha Sutherland Fine Arts.

Mar. 21, 2012	John Newman CHAMBERED NAUTILUS by Charlie Finch Grabbing a seashell conceit to hold onto the new works by sculptor John Newman at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

Mar. 21, 2012	Kehinde Wiley TOWARDS A NEW WORLD PORTRAIT by Ilka Scobie Kehinde Wiley's paintings of young black men from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv transform the Jewish Museum.

Mar. 20, 2012	Shanxi Tombs ALL THE UNDERWORLD'S A STAGE by N.F. Karlins A new exhibition at the China Institute in Manhattan looks at "Theater, Life and the Afterlife" during China's Jin Dynasy.

Mar. 20, 2012	FIVE STAGES OF CONFERENCE GRIEF (WITH APOLOGIES TO ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS) by Peter Plagens In which our writer attends a three-day-long Philadelphia conference for Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital grantees to listen to lectures, gather in breakout sessions and schmooze over meals.

Mar. 20, 2012	Zhang Jian LOOKING ON by Charlie Finch The liberty of looking at one painting -- Zhang Jian's Chang-An Street at Martha Sutherland Fine Arts.

Mar. 16, 2012	WHEN A GOOD PAINTER GOES BAD by Charlie Finch When the lemmings head to the sea, be a seagull -- Stella Michaels, Albert Oehlen and Native American art dealer John Molloy.

Mar. 14, 2012	Mono-ha TENSION AND RESTRAINT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp At Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, an unprecedented show of works by the Japanese artists of "Mono-ha," or "School of Things."

Mar. 13, 2012	CHARLES SPURRIER: A HISTORY by Charlie Finch New works by Charles Spurrier at New York’s Margaret Thatcher Projects.

Mar. 13, 2012	Rob Pruitt SIGN HERE by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz gets an autograph from a very naked Rob Pruitt at New York's Karma Books.

Mar. 13, 2012	Art Market Watch WHY ART IS LIKE SPORTS by Charlie Finch If it has always been about the money, is it only about the money?

Mar. 7, 2012	THE STEINS COLLECT: AN IRREVERENT REPORT by Michèle C. Cone The history of 20th-century art was written on the walls of their homes by Leo, Gertrude, Michael and Sarah Stein.

Mar. 7, 2012	Close Encounters THE LOWDOWN ON THE UPPERCRUST ART FAIR by Linda Yablonsky Business is booming at the strange Art Dealers Association of America Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory.

Mar. 7, 2012	Whitney Biennial 2012 LEAVING BABYLON by Jerry Saltz Whitney Biennial curators Elizabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders consider the post-crash afterlife.

Mar. 6, 2012	GETTIN' DOWN WITH MELISSA BROWN by Charlie Finch Melissa Brown’s paintings involve a complex system of strategies worthy of the founder of game theory.

Mar. 5, 2012	Mel Ramos AMERICAN DREAM GIRLS by Donald Kuspit Mel Ramos is an ironical dialectician, and a social moralist and critical realist despite himself.

Mar. 5, 2012	Diary of an Art Star OCCUPY WINE BAR AT THE 2012 WHITNEY BIENNIAL by Reverend Jen The cheese is back at the Whitney Biennial, and all is well in America.

Mar. 2, 2012	"The Ungovernables" BIG-GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVES by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on why the New Museum's triennial survey needs a dollop of anarchy.

February

Feb. 28, 2012	Whitney Biennial A VERY SHORT HISTORY OF THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL by Charlie Finch Gaping back down memory lane for the Whitney Biennial high points, or any points for that matter.

Feb. 27, 2012	GIACOMETTI AND GERRI DAVIS by Charlie Finch Musings on unsettlement, and the paring down of life in the approach to brokenness and death.

Feb. 27, 2012	Ken Price REMEMBERING SCULPTOR KEN PRICE by Jerry Saltz RIP Ken Price, 1935-2012, ceramic sculptor of dazzling color and cubo-biomorphic form.

Feb. 24, 2012	Adel Abdessemed STRIKE LIKE A BUTCHER, WITHOUT HATE by Emily Nathan The Algerian-born, Paris-based artist Adel Abdessemed debuts a striking new body of work at David Zwirner gallery.

Feb. 23, 2012	CINDY SHERMAN: BECOMING by Jerry Saltz On the occasion of her survey exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman collaborates with Jerry Saltz on a project for New York magazine.

Feb. 23, 2012	THE UNGOVERNABLE ALL-STARS by Charlie Finch While the New Museum fetes a squad of “Ungovernable” rookies, our scribe imagines a more seasoned team.

Feb. 22, 2012	Art Market Watch AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART AT AUCTION by Daniel Grant Twice-yearly auctions of African-America art at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Swann Galleries.

Feb. 22, 2012	WHO IS ROZALIA JOVANOVIC? by Charlie Finch Say hello to Rozalia Jovanovic, the new art reporter at GalleristNY.

Feb. 22, 2012	STAR FOR A RADIO DEVIL by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick on the joy of drawing "wise-ass, hot-foot, flaming-bag-of-dog-shit-on-your-porch" devils -- and not just to piss people off.

Feb. 22, 2012	Ellsworth Kelly CALIFORNIA DOUBLE FEATURE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Ellsworth Kelly rocks Los Angeles with a show of prints at LACMA and the debut exhibition at Matthew Marks L.A.

Feb. 16, 2012	Cindy Sherman THE LAST STAR The triumph of Cindy Sherman, as her retrospective opens at the Museum of Modern Art.

Feb. 15, 2012	Takashi Murakami HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDHA by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Takashi Murakami takes his signature artworks to the Arab world.

Feb. 14, 2012	Whitney Biennial MITT ROMNEY AND FOREST BESS by Charlie Finch On the occasion of the Whitney Biennial, a conflation of Mitt Romney and visionary Texas artist Forrest Bess (1911-1977).

Feb. 14, 2012	The Ungovernables THE NEW CAPITAL: A CHEAT SHEET It's here! "The Ungovernables," brings 34 young artists and art groups from around the world to the New Museum Triennial.

Feb. 13, 2012	Robert Grosvenor TRASH VERSUS ELEGANCE by Charlie Finch Two new sculptures by Robert Grosvenor at Paula Cooper Gallery, viewed in the context of Damian Hirst spotmania.

Feb. 13, 2012	Klara Lidén AFTER-CHRISTMAS INVENTORY by Jerry Saltz Klara Lidén channels the poignancy of discarded streetside trees in her exhibition at Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

Feb. 8, 2012	Metropolitan Museum THE TWO KOCHS by Charlie Finch The cunning elites and the democratic plaza at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Feb. 7, 2012	Football HOW SUPER IS THE SUPER BOWL? by Charlie Finch Cultural ignorance and Super Bowl kitsch, Mitt Romney’s antiseptic robotism, NYPD thuggery against OWS and more.

Feb. 3, 2012	R.I.P. Dorothea Tanning UTTERLY POSSESSING by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz pays homage to the artist who stood at the center of the Surrealist movement, a "vicious mill for women," and refused to play second fiddle.

Feb. 2, 2012	Mike Kelley THE PERVERSE MASTER by Jerry Saltz RIP Mike Kelley, 1954-2012, who turned L.A. foreboding into an all-out acrimonious art of darkness.

Feb. 1, 2012	Mike Kelley MIKE AND IKE by Charlie Finch RIP Mike Kelley, 1954-2012.

Feb. 1, 2012	Venice Biennale MASSI ON MY MIND by Jerry Saltz Feb. 1, 2012 As Massimiliano Gioni takes over, new hope for the Venice Biennale.

January

Jan. 31, 2012	Jean Dubuffet QUIXOTIC QUICKSAND? JEAN DUBUFFET'S "GROUNDLESS" PAINTINGS by Donald Kuspit In his final years, the 80-year-old Jean Dubuffet continued his experiments with elevating street art to high art.

Jan. 31, 2012	TREES A CROWD by James Croak Tracking an increased prevalence of art that deals in organic iconography -- and uses trees in particular.

Jan. 31, 2012	John Cage CAGED IN 2012 by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch ponders the legacy of pioneering composer John Cage on the centennial of his birth.

Jan. 30, 2012	Anthony Haden-Guest THE HATED GUEST by Charlie Finch Famed scribe Anthony Haden-Guest hosts a benefit for his efforts to recover the contents of his storage locker.

Jan. 30, 2012	Bernhard Martin PERVERSE PLEASURES by Gesine Borcherdt German painter Bernhard Martin brings a sense of "bel cazzo vita figa" -- cock-pussy life -- to his show at London's Union Gallery.

Jan. 27, 2012	Simone Leigh MOUTHING OFF by Elizabeth Kley The pioneering black artist "channels the power of prehistoric female craft" with a monumental exhibition of new work at The Kitchen.

Jan. 26, 2012	THE BIG FRIEZE by Charlie Finch London's Frieze Art Fair is not slated to dock in New York until May 2012, but its press minions are already hitting the streets.

Jan. 24, 2012	American Folk Art Museum PLUCKED OR PLUCKY? THE AFAM MARKS ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY by N.F. Karlins With no debt and a new board, the troubled American Folk Art Museum reviews its first 50 years with "Jubilation / Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined."

Jan. 24, 2012	Old Masters PJ's PICKS IN THE NEW YORK OLD MASTER AUCTIONS by Paul Jeromack Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Hubert Robert, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Charles-Antoine Coypel, Sandro Botticelli, more.

Jan. 23, 2012	Old Masters SUFFERING OF THE BODY by Paul Jeromack London dealer Sam Fogg brings an unusual selection of medieval panel paintings to Richard L. Feigen & Co.

Jan. 23, 2012	Wint-O-Green Moth FOR ETTA JAMES by Tony Fitzpatrick Etta James' baby face and angel's voice are gone, and winter settles down in Chicago.

Jan. 23, 2012	POLLOCK/WARHOL 2012 by Charlie Finch Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol -- they have more in common than you might think.

Jan. 17, 2012	Diary of an Art Star EXCLUSIVE! AN INTERVIEW WITH HANKSY by Reverend Jen Who is "Hanksy," the mysterious new artist taking the Lower East Side by storm? Reverend Jen has the exclusive report.

Jan. 17, 2012	Chelsea Stroll THE BLACK BOX by Charlie Finch An amble through the art district, with Murad Khan Mumtaz, Kim MacConnel and "Diggers."

Jan. 17, 2012	THE CHAIN GANG DREAMS OF KRYPTONITE by Tony Fitzpatrick The state of democracy in America is a sad affair.

Jan. 13, 2012	Damien Hirst SPOTS, SHARKS, MAGGOTS AND MONEY by Jerry Saltz How Damien Hirst took over the world.

Jan. 13, 2012	Martin Luther King MLK: AN ART EXEGESIS by Charlie Finch Dr. Martin Luther King, the most "formidable, handsome and compelling subject in American history," has been ignored by the arts.

Jan. 10, 2012	Museum of Modern Art MOMA'S EYE CANDY by Charlie Finch "De Kooning: A Retrospective" comes to an end, but the pretentious intellectualism of MoMA's contemporary vision goes on.

Jan. 9, 2012	John McWhinnie BOOKWORLD by Charlie Finch RIP John McWhinnie, 43, art and book dealer, in a snorkeling accident in the British Virgin Islands.

Jan. 6, 2012	Close Encounters NOW DIG THIS! by Linda Yablonsky The black art renaissance, now and then, via Clifford Owens in New York, "Now Dig This!" in Los Angeles, plus David Hammons and more.

Jan. 6, 2012	New Art OVERLOAD by Charlie Finch Stonehenge, the Beach Boys, and new art by Erik den Breejen at Freight & Volume and Janet Malcolm at Lorie Bookstein Fine Art.

Jan. 5, 2012	Stephen Douglas Hooper REMEMBERING HOOP by Charlie Finch RIP Stephen Douglas Hooper, aka Hoop, 1947-2012, master of the hippie funny car.

Jan. 4, 2012	Work of Art SUCKLORD’S ACTION FIGURE by Jerry Saltz The critic reviews his portrait -- Jerry Saltz on Sucklord’s Important Art Critic: Defender of Taste and Culture.

Jan. 3, 2012	OUR BODIES, OURSELVES IN 2012! by Charlie Finch Predicting the fate of Ai Weiwei, Glenn Lowry, the Old Master market and more.

Jan. 3, 2012	Beverly Fishman DECEPTIVE PLEASURES by Donald Kuspit The neuron spikes in Beverly Fishman’s new abstract paintings at Galerie Richard in New York.

December

Dec. 29, 2011	Work of Art THE DRAMA’S DONE by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz looks back on a year’s worth of judging Work of Art, Bravo TV’s reality series.

Dec. 29, 2011	CRAZY FRANK IN THE BIG WORLD by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick pays homage to his long-lost pal Crazy Frank, a violent man more akin to an ape than a human.

Dec. 28, 2011	Lola Schnabel DRINK YOUR LOLA COLA by Charlie Finch Lola Montes Schnabel debuts her paintings at the Hole on the Bowery in Manhattan.

Dec. 28, 2011	Helen Frankenthaler A WIND THAT LASHES EVERYTHING AT ONCE by Jerry Saltz RIP Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011, pioneering woman painter who bridged Abstract Expressionism and "what was possible."

Dec. 27, 2011	Helen Frankenthaler EBB AND FLOW by Charlie Finch RIP Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011, American Abstract-Expressionist painter who was a pioneer of the Washington Color School.

Dec. 23, 2011	Jane Wilson THE ECLIPSE OF LANDSCAPE by Donald Kuspit In Jane Wilson's landscape paintings, an apotheosis of the whole of nature, restored to its naked state in a modern urban world.

Dec. 22, 2011	Art Jokes HOLIDAY ARTOONS by Anthony Haden-Guest Six new art-world cartoons -- artoons -- from the man-about-town and author of In the Mean Time: The Other Ends of the World (2011).

Dec. 21, 2011	John Chamberlain AUTOPILOT by Charlie Finch RIP John Chamberlain, 1927-2011, second generation Abstract Expressionist artist widely known for his car-crash sculptures.

Dec. 21, 2011	Top Ten 2011 THE YEAR IN ART by Jerry Saltz The Cold War, 1950s brushstrokes and a pickup artist run amok.

Dec. 19, 2011	Mickey Cartin THE REBBE by Charlie Finch A New York collector with eclectic taste and an almost Talmudic attachment to language.

Dec. 19, 2011	Jean-Luc Moulène MINIMUM OPUS by Rachel Corbett Dia:Beacon takes its chances with a little-known French sculptor and photographer in a sprawling new year-long exhibition.

Dec. 16, 2011	Art Embargo IRANIAN ART & THE SANCTIONS by Daniel Grant With a range of global sanctions against Iran, how does one buy Iranian art?

Dec. 15, 2011	Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken L.A. POSTMODERNISM: SPEAKING IN TONGUES by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp At Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts, a look at two Los Angeles-based proto-postmodernists. artists who pushed the boundaries of photographic representation, now on view.

Dec. 14, 2011	2011 in Review THE 10 ART EVENTS OF 2011 by Charlie Finch Ai Weiwei, OSW, PST, black artists, more.

Dec. 14, 2011	Miami Art Week ART DEALER'S DIARY by Kenny Schachter Art fairs are like casinos, with no outside light, and no sense of time or place.

Dec. 13, 2011	Francis Picabia GORGONS IN DISGUISE: PICABIA'S WOMEN by Donald Kuspit Alarmingly charming, Picabia's late words, now at Michael Werner gallery, registered the fall of aristocratic modernism and the rise of mass culture.

Dec. 13, 2011	Paul McCarthy SNOW WHITE AND THE PHALLIC BRONZES by L. Brandon Krall A few works on Paul McCarthy's "The Dwarves, the Forests" at Hauser & Wirth in Manhattan.

Dec. 12, 2011	Julia Sherman JULIA! by Charlie Finch At JF & Sons boutique on University Place, artist Julia Sherman's designs for religious frocks for an Episcopal convent.

Dec. 8, 2011	Mariko Mori THAT BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL BLOB by Charlie Finch Mariko Mori's digital-only earth project is a "paragon of mindless beauty," confined to the screen of your iPhone or laptop.

Dec. 8, 2011	Michael Dweck PHOTOGRAPHING HABANA LIBRE by Christopher Sweet Cuba as a world of sexy encounters in a new photo book by Michael Dweck.

Dec. 8, 2011	Sloan Schaffer TEN QUESTIONS FOR SLOAN SCHAFFER by Brook S. Mason Miami dealer and collector Sloan Schaffer, proprietor of 101/exhibit, is currently on a roll.

Dec. 7, 2011	Adam Lindemann THE PRINCE OF THE ONE PERCENT by Jerry Saltz Lindemann, the Prince of the One Percent, would like you know that buying art is less fun these days.

Dec. 7, 2011	Close Encounters THE ART WORLD NAMING BLIGHT by Linda Yablonsky From Jorge M. Pérez to Stephen A. Schwartzman, the One Percent loves to slap its brand on public institutions.

Dec. 6, 2011	Maurizio Cattelan A DANGLING CONVERSATION by Charlie Finch A post windstorm meditation on Maurizio Cattelan's "All" at the Guggenheim Museum.

Dec. 6, 2011	Jack Early FOREVER AND TODAY by Elizabeth Kley Less is often more in Jack Early's film, What To Do with a Drunken Soldier?, at Forever & Young in Chinatown.

Dec. 2, 2011	Howard Hodgkin THE MARK OF COLOR by Jennifer Samet Howard Hodgkin's "dynamic, emotionally resonant" paintings unite stroke, pigment and frame into one cohesive experience.

November

Nov. 30, 2011	PLAY IT AGAIN, RAGNAR by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on Ragnar Kjartansson's 12-hour operatic performance Bliss, commissioned by Performa '11.

Nov. 30, 2011	THE ATLANTIC CITY MOTH by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick on the fate of New Jersey’s Atlantic City.

Nov. 29, 2011	Paul Nelson CRITICAL MASS by Charlie Finch Everything Is an Afterthought, Kevin Avery's new biography of the cultural critic Paul Nelson.

Nov. 28, 2011	Henri Matisse MATISSE AND THE MODEL by N.F. Karlins An exhibition exploring Matisse's symbiotic relationship with his models, at the Eykyn Maclean Gallery.

Nov. 28, 2011	Protest at Sotheby's THE ATOMIC HOBO by Tony Fitzpatrick Occupy Wall Street takes its battle to Sotheby's, and comes face-to-face with the bigwigs of the art market.

Nov. 28, 2011	Ron and Leonard LAUDERLAND by Charlie Finch The New York Times on the "tax avoidance strategies" of cosmetics magnate and Neue Galerie founder Ronald S. Lauder.

Nov. 23, 2011	ANDREAS GURSKY'S OCEANIC FEELING by Donald Kuspit Andreas Gursky's photographs of apocalyptic oceans and a harsh, unpopulated earth symbolize a technological society that has lost its "sense of bonding with the universe."

Nov. 22, 2011	CONTEMPT: STILL VS. RICHTER by Charlie Finch Are there two more mediocre apostles of abstract painting than Clyfford Still and Gerhard Richter?

Nov. 22, 2011	Art Market Watch SECRETS OF THE FINE ART FUNDS by Daniel Grant Wealthy investors are increasingly turning to fine art funds – and the top funds are reporting some very encouraging rates of return.

Nov. 21, 2011	Sherrie Levine IT’S PAYBACK TIME by Jerry Saltz Sherrie Levine’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum turns a very cold eye on the gender dynamics of the art world.

Nov. 18, 2011	"Hide/Seek" MOSTLY HIDDEN AT "HIDE/SEEK" by Barbara Pollack "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" at the Brooklyn Museum.

Nov. 18, 2011	Roberto Matta THE GREATNESS OF MATTA by Donald Kuspit Cosmic magnificence and colorful munificence in enormous abstractions by Roberto Matta at Pace Gallery.

Nov. 17, 2011	David Altmejd CREATION THEORY by Rachel Corbett Peter Brant's newest star, David Altmejd, transforms the rustic Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Conn., into a bizarre cosmos of the beautiful and the grotesque.

Nov. 17, 2011	AFTERNOON DELIGHT by Charlie Finch Pollock at McCoy Gallery, Harvey Quaytman at McKee, Erwin Blumenfeld at Houk and the Knickerbocker Club.

Nov. 16, 2011	Rembrandt, Picasso & McQueen THE BLOCKBUSTER MYSTERY by N.F. Karlins "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art prompts some musings about museum blockbusters.

Nov. 15, 2011	Nan Goldin TRADITION ENVY by Donald Kuspit Tradition and the contemporary in Nan Goldin's "Scopophilia" at Matthew Marks Gallery.

Nov. 14, 2011	Joseph Nahmad NAHMAD EMPIRE EXPANDS INTO CONTEMPORARY ART by Rachel Corbett Say hello to 21-year-old Joseph Nahmad, who is spurning his family's Impressionist and modern art business in favor of contemporary art.

Nov. 14, 2011	Maurizio Cattelan THE REDEMPTION by Jerry Saltz Maurizio Cattelan's "All" at the Guggenheim Museum is more than just simple punch lines.

Nov. 11, 2011	David Hume HUME AT 300 by Charlie Finch The year 2011 is the 300th anniversary of Scottish philosopher David Hume, who reordered our conception of rationality.

Nov. 11, 2011	Art Market Watch OCCUPY LICHTENSTEIN by Charlie Finch What does Christie's sale of another record-breaking Lichtenstein mean to the One Percent?

Nov. 9, 2011	Maurizio Cattelan THE REDEMPTION by Jerry Saltz Maurizio Cattelan's "All" at the Guggenheim Museum is more than just simple punch lines.

Nov. 9, 2011	Tania Bruguera ART & POLITICS AT OCCUPY BOSTON by Martha Buskirk Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera designs a new Immigrant Movement International.

Nov. 9, 2011	Les Rogers LES IS MORE by Charlie Finch Suprafragilistic new paintings, custom-framed, by veteran painter Les Rogers.

Nov. 9, 2011	Brian O'Doherty "HELLO SAM" AT TRINITY COLLEGE by Ciarán Bennettt Silence, exile and celebration, at Dublin Contemporary, in New York artist Brian O'Doherty's "Hello Sam" installation and performance.

Nov. 7, 2011	Beach Boys FADED SMILE by Charlie Finch The Beach Boys Smile Sessions, the greatest rock album never released, now available in all its originality.

Nov. 7, 2011	Swoon SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS by Emily Nathan Swoon's ramshackle musical village of experimental instruments opens in New Orleans, with a program of live performances scheduled through December.

Nov. 7, 2011	Maurizio Cattelan A HOLE IN HIS SOUL by Charlie Finch Good wishes for Italian jokester Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim Museum and beyond.

Nov. 4, 2011	E/AB 2011 HIT IT! THE EDITIONS / ARTISTS BOOKS FAIR IN CHELSEA by Tony Fitzpatrick New York City is print country and the living breath of the print world is at E/AB 2011.

Nov. 4, 2011	Art of the Arab Lands METROPOLITAN MUSEUM'S NEW ISLAMIC ART MECCA by Jerry Saltz On the Metropolitan Museum's swoon-inducing new galleries devoted to the art of the Near East.

Nov. 3, 2011	Hans Schaufelein MET MUSEUM SNAGS NEW OLD MASTER by Paul Jeromack The Metropolitan Museum adds a painting by Hans Schaufelein, a pupil of Albrecht Dürer, to its German Renaissance collection.

Nov. 3, 2011	Prospect.2 New Orleans BEATING HEART BIENNIAL by Emily Nathan The Prospect.2 New Orleans biennial, overseen by curator Dan Cameron, brings 27 artists to 16 venues in the Big Easy.

Nov. 1, 2011	Janet Biggs WETNESS VISIBLE by Charlie Finch A performance by Janet Biggs on the East River brings noise-drenched conflict and then sublimity.

October

Oct. 31, 2011	WINTER'S NIGHT MOTH by Tony Fitzpatrick Thoughts on New York while performing Stations Lost at the Boiler in Williamsburg.

Oct. 31, 2011	Halloween Art HERE COME THE PUMPKINS by Charlie Finch Mechanical goblins, cackling witch statues and swaths of ghostly gauze herald the arrival of Icabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

Oct. 27, 2011	Pacific Standard Time PHENOMENAL: CALIFORNIA LIGHT, SPACE, SURFACE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp A revelatory exhibition of Light and Space, one of Southern California's unique art movements.

Oct. 25, 2011	Close Encounters FRIEZE WRAP 2011 by Linda Yablonsky Money for art, and art for money at the ninth edition of London's Frieze Art Fair.

Oct. 25, 2011	OCCUPIED! by Charlie Finch The problem with Occupied Wall Street is lack of imagination. Herewith, some suggestions.

Oct. 24, 2011	Robert Irwin ON LOOKING by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp A conversation with Robert Irwin on the occasion of his new exhibition at L&M Arts, Los Angeles.

Oct. 21, 2011	Tony Fitzpatrick PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by Charlie Finch Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick brings to the stage the tale of his rowdy spiritual quest to Istanbul in Stations Lost, at The Boiler in Williamsburg.

Oct. 21, 2011	Work of Art ART APPRECIATION ON A GUT LEVEL by Jerry Saltz In which our beloved art critic becomes a douchebag on a national stage.

Oct. 19, 2011	Pepón Osorio OSORIO'S TURN by Charlie Finch The rich and poor, united by mortality, in Pepon Osorio's Drowned in a Glass of Water at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.

Oct. 18, 2011	Vincent Desiderio PITILESS PATHOLOGY: VINCENT DESIDERIO'S PAINTINGS by Donald Kuspit In his new show at Marlborough Chelsea, painter Vincent Desiderio considers the indecent human story.

Oct. 17, 2011	Close Encounters THE MIDCAREER QUESTION by Linda Yablonsky A meditation on the mid-career museum survey and its effect on artists' career prospects.

Oct. 13, 2011	Istanbul Biennial THE BIENNIAL AS CURATORIUM by Patricia Watts A report from the 12th edition of the Istanbul Biennial, organized by jens Hoffman and Adriano Pedrosa.

Oct. 12, 2011	Keszler & Banksy PEST CONTROL STYMIES KESZLER GALLERY SALES by Rachel Corbett New York dealer Stephan Keszler does battle with Pest Control over the market for Street Art works by Banksy.

Oct. 7, 2011	Cayetana Conrad ALL IN THE FAMILY by Charlie Finch Cayetana Conrad's new paintings of "A Tangled Wood" at M. Sutherland Fine Arts in New York.

Oct. 7, 2011	Willem de Kooning BEAUTY AND THE BEASTLY ARTIST: WILLEM DE KOONING'S DESTRUCTIVENESS by Donald Kuspit Who is de Kooning's woman? An essay on the occasion of "De Kooning: A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art."

Oct. 6, 2011	Matthew Barney IMPORTED FROM DETROIT by Jerry Saltz Matthew Barney's epically mystic Egypto-industrial detritus sculpture, now on view at Gladstone Gallery, inspires and transports.

Oct. 4, 2011	Pacific Standard Time CROSSCURRENTS AT THE GETTY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The Getty Museum forges a new history for California contemporary in "Crosscurrents in L.A.: Painting and sculpture from 1950 to 1970."

Oct. 4, 2011	Xu Bing SOFT FASCIST by Charlie Finch All you need to know about the deadening effect of the Chinese Communist state on artistic freedom.

Oct. 3, 2011	CATTELAN'S DINGLEBERRIES by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch responds to the news that the jokester artist plans more tricks for his upcoming Guggenheim retrospective.

September

Sept. 30, 2011	Stephen Jones HATS: AN ANTHOLOGY by Michèle C. Cone An imaginative selection of over 250 hats, on view at the Bard Graduate Center, suggests that the milliner's ancient craft might deserve a place in the canon of art.

Sept. 28, 2011	Timothy Greenfield-Sanders LATINO LOVEFEST by Charlie Finch Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' film The Latino List, with the companion photo-portraits, debuts at the Brooklyn Museum.

Sept. 26, 2011	"De Kooning: A Retrospective" DEFINITIVE by Jerry Saltz At MoMA, the full, amazing, ever-evolving, never-retreating story of Willem de Kooning.

Sept. 26, 2011	"Living as Form" ART & POLITICS, 2011 An interview with curator Nato Thompson by Barbara Pollack Opening the art world up to political action in the third annual Creative Time Summit and the accompanying exhibition, "Living as Form"

Sept. 23, 2011	Sterling Ruby THE PRINCIPLES OF ETERNITY by Rachel Corbett The venerated Los Angeles artist secures his legacy.

Sept. 23, 2011	HUD'S GIRL by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick pays homage to actress Patricia Neal -- a woman "about as fragile as a nail" -- for her performance in Martin Ritt's 1979 film Hud.

Sept. 23, 2011	PACE YOURSELF by Charlie Finch David Byrne, "Social Media," Agnes Martin and Melissa Meyer.

Sept. 21, 2011	Willem de Kooning MAKING SENSE OF DE KOONING by Charlie Finch "De Kooning: A Retrospective" comes to the Museum of Modern Art.

Sept. 20, 2011	Robert Melee THE SEARCH FOR SHAMELESSNESS by Elizabeth Kley Alcoholic debauchery, erotic escapades and rainbow marbleizing in “Triscuit Obfuscation,” Robert Melee’s new show at Andrew Kreps Gallery.

Sept. 20, 2011	New Art A VISIT TO PIEROGI by Charlie Finch Joe Amrheim, John Stoney, Tony Fitzpatrick and an art adventure in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Sept. 19, 2011	"Art Station" DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Checking out the "pop-up" art show at the Lukoil gas station in Chelsea.

Sept. 16, 2011	Street Art ROCHESTER RAMBLE by Charlie Finch The B-Boy BBQ street art festival in Rochester, N.Y.

Sept. 15, 2011	Clyfford Still Museum STILL THE ONE by Peter Plagens Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still, the self-proclaimed master of the monumental sublime, finally gets his own namesake museum.

Sept. 14, 2011	An interview with Eve Sussman FILMING THE INVISIBLE by Emily Nathan On the eve of her opening at Cristin Tierney Gallery in Chelsea, Eve Sussman sits down with Artnet to discuss her new epic film.

Sept. 14, 2011	Pacific Standard Time ASCO, ED KIENHOLZ AND MARIA NORDMAN IN "PACIFIC STANDARD TIME" by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Three shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art inaugurate "Pacific Standard Time" in Southern California.

Sept. 9, 2011	Artists for Haiti ZWIRNER GALLERY RAISES FUNDS FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF by Emily Nathan A benefit auction of artist-donated artworks goes on the block at Christie's to aid reconstruction in Haiti.

Sept. 9, 2001	Jeanette Ingberman THE FANTASTIC DREAM: A MEMORIAL TO JEANETTE by Melissa Rachleff Burtt The founder of Exit Art, remembered by a former staffer as a dreamer who made things happen.

Sept. 9, 2011	The Encyclopedia of 9/11 MISSING-PERSON POSTERS by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz revisits his secret stash of 9/11's missing-person posters -- street art with "awful power."

Sept. 8, 2011	UPSTATE by Charlie Finch A visit to the historic homestead of literary critic Edmund Wilson.

Sept. 6, 2011	"Buried Treasure" WIN AT KENO! by Charlie Finch Take a gander at "Buried Treasure" on Fox, the new antiques roadshow starring Leigh and Leslie K.

Sept. 6, 2011	THE GREY DOG IN THE SERVICE OF GHOSTS by Tony Fitzpatrick The danger of romanticizing the past -- but the importance of remembering.

Sept. 2, 2011	John Chamberlain A VISIT TO THE STUDIO by Emily Nathan A visit to the Shelter Island studio of 84-year-old sculpture maestro John Chamberlain.

Sept. 1, 2011	REMEMBERING LEONARD HARRIS by Charlie Finch RIP Leonard Harris, 1929-2011, arts and theater critic for CBS in New York in the 1960s and '70s.

August

Aug. 31, 2011	Art Market Watch THE MARKET FOR ANSEL ADAMS AND MOONRISE, HERNANDEZ, NEW MEXICO by Daniel Grant Gaging the variations in the market, and in the print itself, for Ansel Adams' most famous photograph.

Aug. 26, 2011	CHELSEA MEMORIES by Charlie Finch Good-bye to the Chelsea Hotel and all the tales that it has to tell.

Aug. 25, 2011	Graffiti Art ESTRIA GRAFFITI BATTLE IN LOS ANGELES by Emily Nathan An eyewitness report from the fifth annual Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle in downtown Los Angeles.

Aug. 24, 2011	GATSBY AT 86 by Charlie Finch The ostentation of the super-rich, the core of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, is still with us.

Aug. 24, 2011	Gustav Klimt TEMPTRESSES, HOT & COLD by N.F. Karlins Celebrating the Vienna Succession and more in the summer show of "Recent Acquisitions" at Galerie St. Etienne.

Aug. 24, 2011	PORTRAIT OF AMERICA by Charlie Finch It's tough times for the everyday artist in recession-era U.S.A.

Aug. 17, 2011	G-L-O-R-I-A. . .Gloria! by Charlie Finch Gloria Steinem as the original Baby Boomer, back in the spotlight again.

Aug. 16, 2011	"Art in the Streets" DOES ARNOLD LEHMAN HAVE BALLS? by Charlie Finch The call goes out once again: Bring "Art in the Streets" to the Brooklyn Museum.

Aug. 11, 2011	Henry Varnum Poor POOR'S NO PAUPER by Daniel Grant Despite abounding criticism of Standard & Poor's, artist Henry Varnum Poor deserves a better legacy.

Aug. 10, 2011	The Art Carousel WHO'S TZARA NOW? by Charlie Finch Tristan Tzara, Dada and "the superabundance of life" in today's art scene.

Aug. 10, 2011	THE ICE MAN by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick on Chicago's long-standing history of crime.

Aug. 9, 2011	Camille Pissarro THE IDEALIST IMPRESSIONIST by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy At the Clark Art Institute, looking beyond Pissarro’s signature landscapes to investigate his abiding social vision.

Aug. 8, 2011	WINKLEMANIA UP CLOSE by Charlie Finch Minor art-world phenomenon Ed Winkleman, representative of most "second-tier" New York galleries, discusses the current state of dealer affairs and his hopes for the future.

Aug. 4, 2011	STEWED AND KEEFED by Charlie Finch Life, Keith Richards’ autobiography, gets down to the “don't-give-a-shit” inflections that have endeared Richards to guitar heroes everywhere.

Aug. 3, 2011	Deitch Projects Artists WHERE ARE THEY NOW? by Rachel Corbett Checking in with Deitch's displaced artists a year after the legendary gallery closed its doors.

Aug. 3, 2011	William Powhida USELESS TOOL by Charlie Finch Art-world satirist William Powhida rips off Andy Warhol's famed college trick for his "most ambitious installation to date" at Marlborough Chelsea.

Aug. 2, 2011	NADA Hudson NOTHING FOR SOMETHING by Emily Nathan A trip upstate to Hudson, N.Y., for NADA's newest art fair leaves a weary traveler underwhelmed, despite seeing some interesting art.

Aug. 2, 2011	SAVE THE GALLERIES! by Charlie Finch Pop-up exhibitions like “What Works” at ArtStar on Chrystie Street prove that galleries are here to stay -- as long as they keep showing art to sell art.

Aug. 1, 2011	THE SAVAGE STREET by Charlie Finch South African graffiti artist Faith47 and street sculptor Dal's spiritual, visually conservative art might be the antidote to street-art phobia.

July

July 29, 2011	Fluxus at 50 GRAVITAS FOR PRANKSTERS by Michèle C. Cone "Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life," now at the Hood Museum of Art, coming to the Grey Art Gallery at NYU.

July 29, 2011	THE RADIO SWAN by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick pays homage to his father, an Irish war hero who practiced tough love.

July 28, 2011	TO MARKET TO MARKET by Charlie Finch Lucian Freud, our top art galleries, China and the global art market.

July 26, 2011	Art & Money WORKERS UNITE? by Eleanor Heartney Conditions of “contemporary labor” examined by more than 25 artists at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass.

July 25, 2011	Art in Chelsea SWEET BIRDS OF YOUTH by Charlie Finch A Friday evening in Chelsea - punk memorabilia, Laura Levine's punk photos, Daniel Reich Gallery, skate shop at I-20, more.

July 25, 2011	John Bock MODERN AUTOMATON by Elizabeth Kley In his new film at Anton Kern Gallery, German artist John Bock pays homage to German Expressionist film and Dadaist performance.

July 22, 2011	RIP Lucian Freud WHY ARTISTS YOU DON’T LOVE CAN STILL BE GREAT by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz pays homage to the artist for sticking to his painterly guns.

July 21, 2011	Lucian Freud THE LAST OF THE REALIST REBELS by Charlie Finch RIP Lucian Freud, 88, who died at his London home on July 20, 2011.

July 20, 2011	FLAG Art Foundation RAISING THE FLAG by Charlie Finch "One, Another," works on coupling and interconnectedness by 14 artists at the FLAG Art Foundation.

July 23, 2011	Interview with Michael Werner I WANTED MY OWN HIERARCHY by Birgit Maria Sturm translated by Caroline von Falkenhausen The German dealer who brought us Neo-Expressionism talks about his early days, the U.S. market and more.

July 20, 2011	Artist Interview STRANGE DAYS: AN INTERVIEW WITH CIPRIAN MUREŞAN by Emily Nathan In his first New York solo show, iconoclastic Romanian artist Ciprian Muresan offers a fresh, ironic vision of life in the post-Soviet East.

July 19, 2011	Tibetan Carpets EAST ASIAN MASH-UP by N.F. Karlins From myth and the natural world to abstract design, the creative license of Tibetan carpets, onview at the Rubin Museum.

July 18, 2011	Gigi Chen ONE CHINESE OR ONE CHINA? by Charlie Finch Gigi Chen's robot bunnies are a metaphor for China, late capitalism and the techno muckfest around us.

July 12, 2011	Lyonel Feininger GATES OF LIGHT & THE HUMAN COMEDY by Donald Kuspit Lyonel Feininger’s double vision, in "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World" at the Whitney Museum.

July 11, 2011	Femme Power GENDER ON CANVAS by Elisabeth Kley Gender-bending creativity runs amok in a three-artist exhibition curated by Rhizome executive director Lauren Cornell.

July 6, 2011	Interview with Michael Werner I WANTED MY OWN HIERARCHY by Birgit Maria Sturm translated by Caroline von Falkenhausen The German dealer who brought us Neo-Expressionism talks about his early days, the U.S. market and more.

July 6, 2011	Cy Twombly WAS TWOMBLY A FRAUD? by Charlie Finch RIP Cy Twombly, 1928-2011, an artist loved by other artists, and the art market, too.

July 6, 2011	Cy Twombly THINKING BETWEEN HIS LEGS by Jerry Saltz RIP Cy Twombly, 1928-2011, master of smudged calligraphy and gorgeous intimations of myth.

July 6, 2011	ASSHOPPER by Tony Fitzpatrick Discovering nature's romances, by watching grasshoppers mate.

July 5, 2011	Help Jerry Saltz BUILD AN ART FAMILY TREE Jerry Saltz compiles a quick, unverified list of artists who have worked for other artists -- and requests your help to fill it out.

June

June 30, 2011	Werner Herzog DREAM ON by Charlie Finch Cro-Magnon Conceptualism or 19th-century fraud? Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

June 29, 2011	Erik Parker and KAWS SITTING PRETTY by Charlie Finch Artists Erik Parker and KAWS organize "Pretty on the Inside" at Paul Kasmin Gallery.

June 27, 2011	Graffiti Masters NEW ARTWORK FROM FAB 5 FREDDY by Ilka Skobie Fred Brathwaite presents "New Work: New York" at Gallery 151 on the Bowery.

June 27, 2011	MILLER TIME by Charlie Finch Remembering New York art dealer Robert Miller, 1939-2011.

June 24, 2011	Venice Biennale GENERATION BLANK by Jerry Saltz The beautiful, cerebral, ultimately content-free creations of art's well-schooled young lions.

June 23, 2011	Ai Weiwei HOME, BUT NOT FREE by Barbara Pollack What lies ahead for Chinese art activist Ai Weiwei.

June 23, 2011	Tom Armstrong LIGHTEN UP! by Charlie Finch Remembering a time when goofy art administrators failed to understand goofy art.

June 22, 2011	Bushwick Art Scene FOR LOVE OF THE GAME by Emily Nathan Bushwick’s eight leading galleries support the neighborhood's burgeoning community of New York's hottest new artists.

June 22, 2011	BAZOOKA HULK by Tony Fitzpatrick American comic-books' history of conferring power on the outcast and giving voice to the silenced.

June 21, 2011	The Charlie Sheen Complex CHICAGO, WE HAVE A PROBLEM by Pedro Vélez With its five new art fairs, Chicago, like Charlie Sheen, must be "winning!"

June 20, 2011	Sheila Hicks WOVEN COLOR by Donald Kuspit A survey at the Philadelphia Museum of works by one of the great fiber artists, Sheila Hicks.

June 20, 2011	Mothers of Invention FREAK OUT, 45 YEARS ON by Charlie Finch Frank Zappa and his album "Freak Out!" was the Picasso of the 1960s cultural scene.

June 16, 2011	Venice 2011 A TALE OF A NOSE by Jerry Saltz High Life, money, carousing and a tale of Michele Maccarone's nose.

June 15, 2011	Good Art, Bad Art THE PROBLEM WITH CHELSEA by Mickey Cartin A collector weighs in on the proliferation of mediocrity in New York's celebrated art district.

June 14, 2011	The Weiner Scandal MAPPLETHORPE WINS! by Charlie Finch Thoughts on political scandal (and Anthony Weiner) in light of the Robert Mapplethorpe culture wars.

June 14, 2011	Mark Grotjahn MAKING SPIRITS DANCE by Jerry Saltz June 14, 2011 Sinews of paint take on lives of their own in Mark Grotjahn's new work at Anton Kern Gallery.

June 10, 2011	Art in Chelsea DAYCOCK by Charlie Finch Feats of complex engineering in Tatlin and Russian Constructivism at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Alice Aycock and E.V. Day at Salomon Contemporary.

June 7, 2011	Leon Kossoff KOSSOFF'S MAGIC RUINS by Charlie Finch At Mitchell-Inness & Nash, masterful new works by the 85-year-old British painter Leon Kossoff.

June 7, 2011	STAR FOR THE BLUE GIRL by Tony Fitzpatrick Praises for the Blue Jay, and the sanctuary of a golf course in the middle of the afternoon.

June 6, 2011	Marc Chagall MEDIOCRE MODERNISM by Donald Kuspit At the Philadelphia Museum, "Marc Chagall and His Circle" raises questions of modernism, traditionalism and idealism in a harsh world.

June 3, 2011	Art Hong Kong SCENES FROM ART HK 2011 by Barbara Pollack Chinese contemporary -- and Western -- art dealers make Art HK the newest global art power.

June 3, 2011	Venice Biennale 2011 THE UGLY AMERICAN by Jerry Saltz Allora and Calzadilla provide a noisy image of American militaristic excess at the U.S. pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.

June 3, 2011	LINDSAYLAND by Charlie Finch Why hasn't Barack Obama pardoned Lindsay Lohan?

June 2, 2011	Ai Weiwei WHAT IS TO BE DONE? by Charlie Finch A practical plan to assist the imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

June 1, 2011	Steve Earle THE MAP OF MERCY by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick pays homage to the unsung heroes upon whose back our country was built.

May

May 31, 2011	THE JOY OF WEINBERG by Charlie Finch What to do with the huge party spaces of Renzo Piano’s new Whitney Museum?

May 26, 2011	Malerie Marder LABOR OF LOVE by Charlie Finch An innocent generosity of spirit in a new book by Malerie Marder, Carnal Knowledge (Violette Editions).

May 25, 2011	Jan Frank ABSTRACT EROTICS by Adrian Dannatt Serendipity and shape in new works by Jan Frank at Paul Kasmin Gallery.

May 23, 2011	Alexander Melamid THE HEALING ARTS by Rachel Corbett New York artist Alexander Melamid launches his new Art Healing Ministry in SoHo.

May 23, 2011	LOVERMAN: BOB DYLAN AT 70 by Charlie Finch Looking back at the long, fecund career of the generational muse and lyrical shapeshifter.

May 19, 2011	Chelsea Stroll TOO MUCH TESTYRONE by Charlie Finch John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse, and Judy Ledgerwood.

May 18, 2011	ART & APOCALYPSE by Eleanor Heartney A brief survey of apocalyptic imagery in art, from Henry Darger to Keith Haring and Matthew Ritchie.

May 17, 2011	An Interview with Ashley Bickerton EDEN'S ANTI-HERO by Emily Nathan A probing conversation with the Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton, in town for his new exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

May 17, 2011	ALL THE FISH IN THE SEA by Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick's homage to Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market, the largest in the world.

May 16, 2011	Jasper Johns JOHNUMENTS by Charlie Finch Sexy new copper, silver and aluminum sculptures by Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks Gallery.

May 13, 2011	Acquavella Gallery TWO DEGREES OF DAMIAN LOEB by Charlie Finch A lively market for the artist's dark paintings of his naked wife

May 12, 2011	ARCHITECTURE KILLED THE FOLK ART MUSEUM by Jerry Saltz The Museum of Modern Art pays off the $32 million American Folk Art Museum debt -- and gets the building.

May 11, 2011	Getty Trust CUI CUNO? by Charlie Finch What does it mean that James Cuno is named president of the Getty Trust in Los Angeles.

May 9, 2011	Ben Grasso DOOMSDAY PREACHER by Donald Kuspit The wonders of painter Ben Grasso's uninhabitable wooden houses at Thierry Goldberg Projects.

May 6, 2011	GO ASK ALŸS by Charlie Finch See Francis Alÿs steal creative tropes from just about anyone in his new show at the Museum of Modern Art.

May 5, 2011	The Cone Collection HARVEST OF SOUVENIRS by Michèle C. Cone Collectibles and ephemera, plus some great artworks, in "The Cone Sisters" at the Jewish Museum.

May 4, 2011	Picasso at Gagosian THE RUTTING BULL by Jerry Saltz An exhibition devoted to Picasso and a mistress-muse is soaked in sex.

May 4, 2011	Chris Marker STOP STARING by Joe Fyfe In a two-gallery show, the 90-year-old French photographer contemplates women's "built in grain of indestructibility."

May 4, 2011	Willem de Kooning THE WINDOW WASHER by Charlie Finch Willem de Kooning, re-presented, macho, playful, at Pace Gallery in New York.

May 3, 2011	Black Sheep MY MISSPENT YOUTH by Tony Fitzpatrick Caddying, foul-mouthed golfers and how much he learned from his misspent youth.

April

Apr. 29, 2011	David Salle DON'T UNDERSTAND ME TOO QUICKLY by Emily Nathan An interview with painter David Salle on the eve of his new exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea.

Apr. 29, 2011	Jean Forgotten THE PROPHET BAUDRILLARD by Charlie Finch Jean Baudrillard, dead and all but forgotten by advanced culture.

Apr. 27, 2011	Briceño & Lóránt SAVE THE FOREST, SAVE THE PEOPLE by Donald Kuspit At the Gabarron Foundation in Manhattan, photographers Antonio Briceño and Attila Lorant work to save indigenous cultures.

Apr. 26, 2011	Katy Grannan DESOLATION ROW by Jerry Saltz In a two-part exhibition at New York's Salon 94, photographer Katy Grannan lets her subjects direct her -- and they often reveal far more than they expect.

Apr. 25, 2011	GRAFFITI: THE NOBLEST ART by Charlie Finch The Daily News and the rest of New York should be celebrating graffiti artists.

Apr. 22, 2011	Noble or Nibble? LAST TRAIN TO DULLSVILLE by Charlie Finch Looking at tombstones, thinking it’s the sky, with James Siena and Thornton Willis (and Frankenthaler and Pousette-Dart).

Apr. 18, 2011	Raghu Rai THE DRAMA OF INDIA by Donald Kuspit The luminous contrast of old and new in photographs by Raghu Rai at New York’s Aicon Gallery.

Apr. 18, 2011	Art & Politics HOW TO DESTROY THE CHICOMS by Charlie Finch Can the West pull off a boycott of China? A call to arms on behalf of Ai Weiwei.

Apr. 14, 2011	Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern THE SNAKE SEDUCTION by N.F. Karlins Now in its 14th edition, the fair for deco arts and design gets a total facelift.

Apr. 13, 2011	Gallery at the Louvre MORSE CODE by Charlie Finch Yale historian David McCullough on the secrets of Samuel F.B. Morse’s masterpiece, Gallery at the Louvre.

Apr. 13, 2011	Ai Weiwei I FOR AN AI by Bozidar Brazda Considering what is happening to Ai Weiwei.

Apr. 12, 2011	Rest in Peace JOHN MCCRACKEN, 1934-2011 by Jerry Saltz Good-bye to a great space cowboy, a master of brilliantly colored, exquisitely smooth Minimalist forms.

Apr. 8, 2011	RED STAR FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF JUAREZ by Tony Fitzpatrick Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, his unfinished masterpiece 2666, and the unsolved murders of the women of Juarez.

Apr. 7, 2011	New Art A DAY AT THE RACES by Charlie Finch Meghan Boody, Linda Yablonsky, Ryan Oakes, Jerry Davis, Edward Winkleman, Jimbo Blachly, Kika Karadi and the Williamsburg Bridge.

Apr. 6, 2011	Unpainted Paintings AFTER THE DRIPS by Jerry Saltz Once Jackson Pollock exploded painting, anything from petals to pee could wind up on a gallery wall.

Apr. 4, 2011	Kenneth Noland ESCAPE FROM MEANING by Charlie Finch The classic Noland paintings at Mitchell-Innes & Nash are sublime.

Apr. 4, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Rudolf Stingel at Gagosian Gallery, snobby gallerinas and a guide to the Lower East Side gallery scene.

March

Mar. 31, 2011	Talking with Bice Curriger VENI, VIDI, VICI, VENICE: An Inside Look at the Venice Biennale by Barbara Pollack "I'm not doing a show about light bulbs," says Bice Curriger about her show "ILLUMInations" at the Venice Bennale.

Mar. 30, 2011	James Grashow: CARDBOARD BERNINI by Donald Kuspit James Grashow's "Corrugated Fountain," designed for obsolescence (like all art in the modern world?), at Allan Stone Gallery.

Mar. 30, 2011	R.I.P. George Tooker: THE ONE PAINTING SYNDROME by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch bids adieu to the late George Tooker, painter of modern urban alienation, and revisits his most iconic work.

Mar. 29, 2011	Looking for T. Rex: JURASSIC POLSKY by Charlie Finch Andy Warhol expert Richard Polsky pens Boneheads: My Search for T. Rex.

Mar. 29, 2011	Ceramics et al.: CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ARTS by Donald Kuspit The Zeitgeist haunts us, and makes the work of art haunting, and convincing.

Mar. 28, 2011	BIRD FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF JUAREZ by Tony Fitzpatrick Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, his unfinished masterpiece 2666, and the unsolved murders of the women of Juarez.

Mar. 28, 2011	Art & Money: UMBILICAL CORD OF GOLD by Eleanor Heartney What is the social responsibility of the art critic, and other players in a deeply conflicted art world?

Mar. 25, 2011	Art Market Watch: ARTWORK AS AN UNCORRELATED ASSET by Daniel Grant Artwork appears to take political unrest and market volatility in stride.

Mar. 24, 2011	Elizabeth Taylor: ANDY'S PORTRAITS OF LIZ by Jerry Saltz Tragic sexuality and feminine power in Andy Warhol's portraits of Elizabeth Taylor.

Mar. 22, 2011	Relational Esthetics: THANKS FOR THE RIDE, GAVIN! by Jerry Saltz How a joyride in Gavin Brown’s Volvo Became Art.

Mar. 21, 2011	Richard Prince: SLIPPERY SLOPE by Charlie Finch Appropriation artist Richard Prince loses his "fair use" copyright case over his "Canal Zone" Rastafarian works.

Mar. 18, 2011	Bye Bye Kitty: NO SPACE BETWEEN CHAOS AND BEAUTY by Charlie Finch At Japan Society, the notion that we might "demolish" old ideas about Japanese art comes a little too close to current reality.

Mar. 16, 2011	ADVENTURES IN RADIATION by Charlie Finch MRI machines, A-bomb tests and the threat of nuclear energy.

Mar. 15, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Critic Jerry Saltz on art fairs, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and the advisability of traveling to Boston (don't do it).

Mar. 14, 2011	FUN WITH LEO by Charlie Finch RIP Leo Steinberg, 1920-2011, the greatest art historian of his generation.

Mar. 14, 2011	STAR FOR MY BLACK IRISH HEART by Tony Fitzpatrick For Saint Patrick’s Day, a word on the notion that the Irish are a happy-go-lucky bunch.

Mar. 10, 2011	Meghan Boody: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BOODY by Charlie Finch Artist Meghan Boody and her eternally girly-girly fantasy world of photos, sculptures and things under glass.

Mar. 8, 2011	DEPARTURE by Charlie Finch We say goodbye to MoMA PS1 stalwart Tony Guerrero.

Mar. 7, 2011	JOHNNY’S TOO LONG AT THE FAIR by Peter Plagens Thoughties from Pulse New York and the Armory Show 2011.

Mar. 7, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz The worst show of the year -- Francesco Vezzoli at Gagosian Gallery -- plus Paul Cézanne and the question of marathon art viewing.

Mar. 4, 2011	IT’S BECAUSE YOU’RE DYING by Patrick Painter A story about the art market, and the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres, via an essay from A Hedonist's Guide to Art (Hg2), the new anthology edited by Laura K. Jones.

Mar. 4, 2011	The Verge Art Fair: THE CASE FOR ART BROOKLYN by Tony Fitzpatrick Artist and Chicago muse Tony Fitzpatrick -- now a gallery director -- participates in Verge Art Brooklyn.

Mar. 2, 2011	SOCIAL MEDIA IS OLD AGE by Charlie Finch Twitter, Facebook, Gawker, Huffpo, they all turn long-term living into the passing moments of old age.

February

Feb. 28, 2011	Paul Cézanne: THREE OF A KIND by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on Cézanne's revolutionary paintings of humble card players, and how they mark a turning-point in modern art.

Feb. 25, 2011	Chinese Bronzes: DING AND ZUN by N.F. Karlins At the China Institute, treasures of Yangzi River culture from the Bronze Age.

Feb. 25, 2011	Laurie Simmons: MY DAUGHTER THE SEX DOLL by Walter Robinson The maternal instinct in Laurie Simmons’ photographs of “The Love Doll” at Salon 94.

Feb. 25, 2011	COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER by Charlie Finch Janet Biggs takes us miles underground with an Arctic coal miner for Part Three of her “Arctic Trilogy”

Feb. 24, 2011	Pollock's Mural: A CLEAR CHOICE? by Donald Kuspit Go ahead and sell Jackson Pollock's $150-million Mural and use the proceeds for a scholarship fund.

Feb. 23, 2011	AGAINST ART FAIRS by Charlie Finch The art-factory system flourishes while real art ends up in the sewer.

Feb. 18, 2011	STAR FOR THE YELLOW CAB by Tony Fitzpatrick As Chicago voters go to the polls to elect their new mayor, a meditation on Mayors Daley, father and son.

Feb. 18, 2011	Christian Marclay: THE BEST MOVIE IN NEW YORK by Jerry Saltz Christian Marclay's "The Clock" at Paula Cooper Gallery is an ecstatic love letter to the movies.

Feb. 18, 2011	HAMMONS' HEFTY BAG by Charlie Finch David Hammons at L&M Arts, is he turning to painting?

Feb. 14, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz All about George Condo, online art fairs, and what abstraction really is.

Feb. 14, 2011	BAD NEWS AT THE MET by Charlie Finch Thomas Campbell wants to overload the unwitting museum visitor with useless information.

Feb. 10, 2011	IS PICASSO NECESSARY? by Charlie Finch Do we still need to look at Pablo Picasso? Do we need to look at anyone else?

Feb. 10, 2011	STAR FOR THE ETERNAL CITY by Tony Fitzpatrick Small kindnesses hold together a big city of many tribes.

Feb. 9, 2011	SECRETS OF SUCCESS by Donald Kuspit Paradoxes and problems of the reproduction and commodification of art in the age of the capitalist spectacle.

Feb. 8, 2011	THE GAY PLACE by Charlie Finch Remembering William Brammer’s great political novel, The Gay Place.

Feb. 4, 2011	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Out at the Kitchen with CoonBidness, Quincy Troupe, Paula Thompson Henderson and Vivien Goldman, and Esopus magazine.

Feb. 3, 2011	ROCCO MUST GO by Charlie Finch Broadway mega-producer Rocco Landesman is selling out his constituency at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Feb. 1, 2011	Carlos the Jackal: GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT by Charlie Finch The terrorist revolutionary as a sexist puppet in Olivier Assayas’ five-hour-long miniseries Carlos.

Feb. 1, 2011	MOST THINGS CONSIDERED by Tony Fitzpatrick Exploding heads, anti-criticism, talk-show quacks and other musings about a decade in radio.

January

Jan. 31, 2011	IT LOOKED LIKE A LOAD OF RUBBISH TO ME by Barry Miles Yoko Ono, John Lennon, the Indica Gallery and more, via an essay from A Hedonist’s Guide to Art (Hg2), the new anthology edited by Laura K. Jones.

Jan. 31, 2011	Christian Marclay: ONE FOR THE AGES by Jerry Saltz Christian Marclay’s The Clock, a 24-hour-montage of movie moments.

Jan. 31, 2011	Mike Kelley: SUPERMAN’S HAREM by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Superman, Krypton and a harem of fetching females in Mike Kelley’s new installation at Gagosian Gallery.

Jan. 27, 2011	WHO IS THE WORST ARTIST? by Charlie Finch A contest in male infantilism between Joe Bradley, Dan Colen and Rob Pruitt.

Jan. 27, 2011	GOODBYE, DEAR DENNIS by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz bids adieu to the late Dennis Oppenheim and revisits his artistic legacy.

Jan. 27, 2011	THE VIP ART FAIR: INTERNET DATING? by Kenny Schachter A London art dealer -- now specializing in Impressionists and moderns -- takes a look at the cyber-art-fair.

Jan. 25, 2011	BRUSH WITH CENSORSHIP by Barbara Pollack How the Chinese government destroyed a work by photographer Wang Qingsong.

Jan. 24, 2011	WYNN’S GENIUS by Charlie Finch "Drawn / Taped / Burned," a show of abstract works on paper from the collection of Wynn Kramarsky.

Jan. 22, 2011	DENNIS THE MENACE by Charlie Finch Remembering Dennis Oppenheim, 1938-2011, the pioneering New York conceptual artist and allegorical sculptor.

Jan. 21, 2011	BEEN TOO LONG AT THE FAIR by Charlie Finch Considering the new cyberspace VIP Art Fair.

Jan. 20, 2011	SADISTIC STUPIDITY: JOHN BALDESSARI’S PSEUDO-ART by Donald Kuspit Is erasing or effacing an image creative work?

Jan. 20, 2011	THE GREATEST WORK OF ART by Jerry Saltz What is the greatest New York work of art -- an Alfred Stieglitz? A Jackson Pollock? A Jacob Lawrence? No, you won’t find it on a wall.

Jan. 18, 2011	THE DON by Charlie Finch Rediscovering the 1960s Finish Fetish works of artist Don Dudley.

Jan. 14, 2011	SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by Charlie Finch Violence and hypocrisy in the Tucson shooting debate.

Jan. 14, 2011	STAR FOR TUCSON by Tony Fitzpatrick The Tea Party, the Tucson shooting and the discourse of fear and hate in Arizona.

Jan. 12, 2011	SNOW BLIND by Charlie Finch Face the rigors of winter snow with help from Wyeth, Wilke, Ryman and Bearden.

Jan. 10, 2010	JOHN WILKES BOOTH, ARTIST? by Charlie Finch A new book on Lincoln’s assassin, inspired by an idea by Sinclair Lewis, imagines Booth as a western artist.

Jan. 7, 2011	BIG MACK ATTACK by Walter Robinson America, say hello to 79-year-old German art pioneer Heinz Mack.

Jan. 6, 2011	SCHEHERAZADE by Charlie Finch A few thoughts on the appointment of Lindsay Pollock as editor of Art in America magazine.

Jan. 3, 2011	WIZARD IN THE BLIZZARD by Charlie Finch Some predictions for 2011.

Jan. 3, 2011	I KNOW WHAT I HATE (AN EXCURSUS) by Will Self An essay from A Hedonist’s Guide to Art (Hg2), the new anthology edited by London art writer Laura K. Jones.

December

Dec. 28, 2010	TINY TOP TEN by Charlie Finch In a baleful year, a few things to be thankful for.

Dec. 29, 2010	STAR FOR WESTERN AVENUE by Tony Fitzpatrick An ode to Chicago’s working-class, transport center, the longest continuous avenue in town.

Dec. 28, 2010	DROLL ABSTRACTION by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The Postminimalist Minimalism of the late German Pop abstractionist Blinky Palermo.

Dec. 28, 2010	THE ART OF FINE DINING by Daniel Grant Making haute cuisine part of the museum experience.

Dec. 27, 2010	ALTER EGON by Elisabeth Kley John Kelly’s performance biography of Egon Schiele.

Dec. 27, 2010	A BEACON FOR ART by Charlie Finch Remembering art collector and museum founder Roy Neuberger, 1903-2010.

Dec. 22, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Questions about bad art, good biographies and the David Wojnarowicz censorship fight.

Dec. 22, 2010	KLEEMATION by Charlie Finch Singing the praises of an undervalued 20th-century master.

Dec. 20, 2010	SILENT MOVIE by Charlie Finch At MoMA, Andy Warhol’s Eat, Sleep, Blow Job, Kiss and other films are no more than magnificent paintings.

Dec. 20, 2010	CHASTIZED BY THE NUCLEAR TAN OF JOHN BOEHNER by Pedro Vélez Curatorial politics, or lack of same, in the David Wojnarowicz censorship controversy.

Dec. 17, 2010	THE FLOWERS OF ROMANCE by Charlie Finch Boston painter Donald Shambroom and memories of art talks past.

Dec. 17, 2010	THE YEAR IN ART by Jerry Saltz A look back at the top ten art exhibitions in New York during 2010.

Dec. 16, 2010	THE YEAR OF THE QUILT by N.F. Karlins The American Folk Art Museum celebrates the most American of art forms.

Dec. 16, 2010	OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! by Charlie Finch Taking a contrarian view of the works of Alice Neel in part 6 of a serial book review.

Dec. 16, 2010	STAR FOR A RED BIRD by Tony Fitzpatrick Making time for a few "stars," and for the new FireCat gallery.

Dec. 15, 2010	BODY AWARENESS by Elisabeth Kley The wild self-portraits of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig.

Dec. 14, 2010	PINCHUK UPCHUCK by Charlie Finch A few words about the Victor Pinchuk’s $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize.

Dec. 13, 2010	QUEEN OF HEARTS by Charlie Finch Alice Neel is the life of the party: part 4 of a serial review.

Dec. 13, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Questions about Anselm Kiefer, and what's killing MoMA.

Dec. 13, 2010	JUDITH GODWIN: NOW WE’RE READY by Walter Robinson The triumphant reappearance of the Greenwich Village painter Judith Godwin.

Dec. 10, 2010	SOKARI DOUGLAS CAMP TOUGH AS STEEL by Donald Kuspit Sokari Douglas Camp’s African figural sculptures at Stux Gallery.

Dec. 10, 2010	THE RED QUEEN by Charlie Finch Alice Neel in the 1930s: part 3 of a serial review.

Dec. 9, 2010	JOHNNY, WE HARDLY KNEW YE by Charlie Finch Socialite and African photography collection Jean Pigozzi breaks out his own paparazzi snaps.

Dec. 8, 2010	DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE by Charlie Finch Reading Phoebe Hoban’s new Alice Neel bio (part two).

Dec. 7, 2010	CONSIDERING THE IMAGE by Mary Barone An Interview with Miranda Lichtenstein.

Dec. 7, 2010	PLAYING IT STRAIGHT by Jerry Saltz MoMA’s "On Line" celebrates but doesn’t liberate its subject.

Dec. 7, 2010	THE WINTER TIGER by Tony Fitzpatrick A special kind of public art for Chicago. Plus, a moth of ferocious poetry.

Dec. 1, 2010	Brobdingnagian BIJOUX by Elisabeth Kley Anselm Kiefer’s "Next Year in Jerusalem."

Dec. 1, 2010	THE OPERATOR by Charlie Finch Remembering Ted Kheel, 1914-2010.

November

Nov. 30, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz On MoMA’s women, auction madness and George W. Bush’s official portrait.

Nov. 30, 2010	The Messenger by Tony Fitzpatrick Politics and peace in Istabul and Chicago.

Nov. 24, 2010	MOOD OF MONEY by Donald Kuspit Ben Aronson’s Wall Street traders are stalked by death.

Nov. 24, 2010	KITSCHY KITSCHY CURRIN by Charlie Finch John Currin has landed in a silky bog.

Nov. 23, 2010	BODY HEAT by Ilka Skobie Ugo Rondinone’s "nudes."

Nov. 23, 2010	ABSTRACTING ABSTRACTION by Charlie Finch Lee Krasner, Keltie Ferris, Odili Donald Odita, Liz Markus and Christopher H. Ho.

Nov. 23, 2010	GOLDEN KHAN by N.F. Karlins "The World of Khubilai Khan" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Nov. 22, 2010	COLEMAN’S ODDITORIUM by Carlo McCormick Joe Coleman "AutoPortrait" at Dickinson New York

Nov. 22, 2010	The New Naturalism by Donald Kuspit Mia Brownell and Derrick Guild paintings of a demystified nature.

Nov. 19, 2010	PERVERSE BEAUTY An interview with John Currin by David Coggins The savvy and sometimes-controversial painter talks about his new work.

Nov. 19, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz On conflict of interest, being shy and the New Museum.

Nov. 18, 2010	MoMA AT ITS VERY BEST by Charlie Finch Paula Hayes, Pop art, Romare Bearden and "OnLine."

Nov. 17, 2010	THE OLD IS NEW AGAIN by Jerry Saltz Paintings you can’t miss at MoMA’s historic Abstract Expressionism show.

Nov. 15, 2010	TIME AND TIME AGAIN by Charlie Finch The dollar sign as art history’s death grin.

Nov. 12, 2010	AI AI AI by Charlie Finch The West -- including the art world -- should stand for human rights in China

Nov. 10, 2010	RICHTUS INTERRUPTUS by Charlie Finch Gerhard Richter, Deitch Projects, Leslie-Lohman and random abstraction in lower SoHo

Nov. 9, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz On MoMA’s sucky layout, dealer spiel, and what not to say to a critic

Nov. 8, 2010	IN SEARCH OF BAD PAINTING by Charlie Finch Paul Thek, John Dubrow and Jasper Cropsey at the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.

Nov. 5, 2010	THE NOVEMBER MOTH by Tony Fitzpatrick Moths, Prospect.1 New Orleans and what it is to be an artist.

Nov. 4, 2010	DEVISING AND DIVIDING THE VICE OF DEVICES by Charlie Finch Bomb threats of all sorts.

Nov. 3, 2010	THE PHALLIC WOMAN by Donald Kuspit Conflict and fragmentation in Louise Bourgeois’ depiction of the female body.

Nov. 2, 2010	THE RIPPLE EFFECT by Charlie Finch Catching the drift with Matt Magee’s abstractions.

Nov. 2, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Bad art dealers, big spaces in the U.S., and managing a critic’s schedule.

October

Oct. 30, 2010	THE BEST BOB by Charlie Finch Larry Gagosian presents "Robert Rauschenberg."

Oct. 29, 2010	LIGHTS OUT by Charlie Finch Jim Campbell’s "2,000 Lights" in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.

Oct. 26, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz’s "Ask an Art Critic": On the "Power 100," Frieze, and Ai Weiwei’s toxic cloud.

Oct. 25, 2010	ELEVENTH AVENUE RAMBLE by Charlie Finch Keith Mayerson, Joy Garnett, Nam June Paik and Debora Warner.

Oct. 21, 2010	SALOMON'S CHOICE by Charlie Finch "Plank Road" at Salomon Contemporary in New York’s Chelsea art district.

Oct. 20, 2010	WHAT’S SO CLASSY ABOUT MODERN CLASSICISM by Donald Kuspit "Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936" at the Guggenheim Museum.

Oct. 18, 2010	DEFENDING KOONS by Charlie Finch About Jeff Koons, Cicciolina and "Made in Heaven" at Luxembourg & Dayan.

Oct. 15, 2010	SECRETS OF THE MEXICAN SUITCASE by Michèle C. Cone Long-lost images of the Spanish Civil War come to light at the International Center for Photography.

Oct. 15, 2010	WHERE’S THE BABY? by Charlie Finch Text is art for James Frey, and his collectors.

Oct. 12, 2010	THIN-SLICING REALITY by Donald Kuspit Photography is the pre-eminent art of the age of the unconscious.

Oct. 13, 2010	THE BROADWAY BEAST by Tony Fitzpatrick On Halloween you can let your animal self off the leash.

Oct. 12, 2010	WHERE’S THE BALL by Charlie Finch Fresh air, open fields, and paintings by Isca Greenfield-Sanders.

Oct. 12, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Questions about bad galleries, dirty looks and good alternatives.

Oct. 7, 2010	A LITTLE MADNESS GOES A LONG CREATIVE WAY by Donald Kuspit A new look at Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s emotional crisis and the portrait busts that resulted.

Oct. 7, 2010	KASSASSTROPHIES by Charlie Finch Kassaganda re Kassdom for Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin.

Oct. 5, 2010	HANDS UP by Charlie Finch Zen master Hakuin and the sound of one hand.

Oct. 4, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz A new feature: Critic Jerry Saltz answers his reader’s questions on elitism, careerism and cronyism.

September

Sept. 30, 2010	PINK LADY by Tony Fitzpatrick An excerpt from the artist’s upcoming book This Train.

Sept. 29, 2010	ART MOSCOW 2010 by Matthew Bown Sadly, the Russian capital’s art fair lives a marginal and precarious existence.

Sept. 29, 2010	THE GREAT REGRESSION by Jerry Saltz Dan Colen is making 2007 art in 2010.

Sept. 28, 2010	ROCCO LANDESMAN DISAPPEARS by Charlie Finch What happened to our new federal arts champion?

Sept. 28, 2010	SCULPTURE AS NARRATIVE by Simon Todd An interview with English sculptor Nick Hornby.

Sept. 23, 2010	FIVE SEXY ARTWORKS by Jerry Saltz Selected from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sept. 23, 2010	CANNERY ROW by Tony Fitzpatrick John Steinbeck and the promise of a great nation.

Sept. 22, 2010	THE VERMEER OF CHILE by Charlie Finch Chilean video artist Gianfranco Foschino captures visual joy in poverty.

Sept. 22, 2010	JUDGE JERRY by Jerry Saltz How the reality show Work of Art changed me as a critic, for bad and for good.

Sept. 17, 2010	THE EXTRAORDINARY JILL by Charlie Finch RIP Jill Johnston, 1929-2010.

Sept. 17, 2010	PLAY TIME by Charlie Finch Rob Pruitt at GBE and Maccarone galleries, and Gene Beery at Algus Greenspon.

Sept. 17, 2010	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Rosie Rebel, Cody Critcheloe, Peggy Noland, and cow as the new black.

Sept. 15, 2010	BLUES FOR JUMBO CUMMINGS by Tony Fitzpatrick About a hard-luck boxer who came close to greatness.

Sept. 13, 2010	"RACKSTRAW DOWNES: LIFE AT A DISTANCE by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy A summer of shows for the art-world’s obdurate reporter of the specific.

Sept. 9, 2010	WHERE ARE THE MYTHS OF TOMORROW? by Charlie Finch Brigid Berlin’s photos of the young artists of yesteryear.

Sept. 9, 2010	PAPERWEIGHTS by Nazy Nazhand Perusing "The Bidoun Library Project" at the New Museum: physical books as concept.

Sept. 8, 2010	MARJA BLUES by Steve Mumford Combat Outposts Coutu & Yazzie, Helmand Province, late June.

Sept. 7, 2010	THE STAR FISH by Tony Fitzpatrick An aquatic superhero for the oil-drenched future.

Sept. 7, 2010	THE AIR-CONDITIONED SMILE by Charlie Finch The badass tableaux of Carol Bove.

Sept. 1, 2010	BEATING HEART NEW ORLEANS by Ben Davis Dan Cameron on art in New Orleans after the Gulf oil spill.

August

Aug. 27, 2010	VIDEODRONE by Kathrin Becker An interview with German video artist Gabriele Stellbaum.

Aug. 27, 2010	THE SOUL REBEL by Tony Fitzpatrick Number one in a new series, "Superheroes."

Aug. 25, 2010	VOYEURISM, EXPOSED by Vicki Goldberg The camera as peeper in "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870."

Aug. 20, 2010	A BLIND MAN LOOKS AT 'WORK OF ART' by Charlie Finch Nothing good can come of turning art into just another crappy relay race.

Aug. 19, 2010	MY FAVORITE FIFTY by Charlie Finch Rising to the challenge to name 50 personal favorite paintings.

Aug. 17, 2010	A Visit to Kabul’s National Gallery by Steve Mumford Exploring Afghanistan’s painting heritage.

Aug. 13, 2010	Work of Art by Walter Robinson "Art as life," or just "reality TV?"

Aug. 12, 2010	LIFE BREAKS THROUGH by Jerry Saltz Am I allowed to say that the last episode of Work of Art made me feel glad all over?

Aug. 10, 2010	WAS LATE ANDY ANY GOOD? by Charlie Finch "Andy Warhol: The Last Decade" at the Brooklyn Museum.

Aug. 9, 2010	A GRAND TOUR by Jerry Saltz My favorite paintings in New York, in no particular order.

Aug. 5, 2010	JUICING PHILLIPS DE PURY by Charlie Finch A modest proposal for Phillips de Pury & Co.

Aug. 5, 2010	HOCKNEY AND MATISSE by Charlie Finch Artist and model, authority and enthrallment.

Aug. 5, 2010	A NOTE ON LATE RENOIR by Donald Kuspit The emotional realism behind Impressionism’s utopian naturalism.

Aug. 3, 2010	MATISSE AND MEMORY by Charlie Finch Looking forward to looking back.

Aug. 2, 2010	MAXXIPAD by Walter Robinson MAXXI, Romes Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo.

July

July 30, 2010	HOW DEEP IS HER OCEAN? by Charlie Finch Matisse’s androgynous Blue Nude of 1907.

July 27, 2010	BONELESS by Charlie Finch What Robertson Davies’ novel What’s Bred in the Bone says about art, and life.

July 23, 2010	YANGTZE YENTA by Charlie Finch Barbara Pollack’s The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China.

July 22, 2010	BLUNT INSTRUMENT by Charlie Finch Miranda Carter’s Anthony Blunt: His Lives offers a picture of a world where art mattered.

July 21, 2010	FIRST STEPS by Michèle C. Cone Leo Castelli’s first steps in the art world: a "Surrealist" event in Paris in ’39.

July 20, 2010	KINETIC ENVIRONMENT by Steve Mumford An artist on patrol with Marines in Marja, Afghanistan.

July 20, 2010	AFAM’S CURATOR PROBLEM by Jerry Saltz What to do about the American Folk Art Museum?

July 19, 2010	THE MISSING MATISSE by Charlie Finch The echoes of Henri Matisse’s great painting, The Conversation.

July 15, 2010	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Reverend Jen explores the London art scene.

July 14, 2010	DOWN BY THE RIVER by Charlie Finch Contemplating the influence of Matisse’s Bathers by the River.

July 12, 2010	HOPPER’S BIG SHOW by Tiff Chalmers "Dennis Hopper Double Standard" opens at Los Angeles MOCA.

July 9, 2010	PURVIS YOUNG: SOCIAL EXPRESSIONIST by Donald Kuspit Dramatically direct and emotionally honest, Young’s paintings are tears in the social fabric.

July 9, 2010	THE VIOLENT WORLD OF GLENN LOWRY by Charlie Finch The MoMA director gives a "Tim Burtonesque" overview of his museum.

July 8, 2010	OLD MASTER PARTY by Paul Jeromack Forget about Turner & the Getty, the real fun belongs to Frans Francken.

July 7, 2010	MR. CLEAN by Charlie Finch Time to restate Mike Bidlo’s series of "Not Picassos."

July 6, 2010	PORTER’S PEOPLE by N.F. Karlins Thoughtful, humble, melancholy, Fairfield Porter found intimacy in his works.

July 1, 2010	MOMA’S GRAY MATTERS by Charlie Finch A new installation from the collection at the Museum of Modern Art.

June

June 30, 2010	WILL DEFLATION HIT THE ART MARKET? by Charlie Finch The megarich may halt their buying.

June 29, 2010	CRY BABY CRY by Carlo McCormick Wailing, in more ways than one, with painter Sally Webster.

June 28, 2010	LONE WOLF by Ilka Skobie An interview with Jim Dine.

June 25, 2010	WHEN THE FAMILIAR BECOMES ALIEN by Charlie Finch On Rafael Ferrer and Charles Burchfield.

June 25, 2010	THE VOICE OF CHEESE by Charlie Finch Low culture is getting a little too low.

June 24, 2010	PAINTING THE PRESIDENT by Daniel Grant Inside the world of presidential portraits.

June 23, 2010	DISTRICT UNKNOWN by Steve Mumford Curious signs of modernity in Kabul.

June 23, 2010	WORK OF ART 2030 by Charlie Finch Coming to you from Ice Station Robotic on Queen’s Island, Antarctica.

June 22, 2010	NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND by Astrid Mania "Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s."

June 21, 2010	WHITE ON WHITE by Charlie Finch A kayak ballet from Janet Biggs.

June 21, 2010	UNLIMITED, WITHIN LIMITS by Gerrit Gohlke "Art Unlimited" at Art 41 Basel.

June 16, 2010	THE DAZZLER by Jerry Saltz Sigmar Polke, 1941-2010.

June 15, 2010	THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE by Frédérique Joseph-Lowery Louise Bourgeois: her life threaded.

June 15, 2010	WHO WILL BE THE NEXT LOUISE BOURGEOIS? by Charlie Finch Making some art-world odds.

June 14, 2010	PROFOUND OBJECTS by Charlie Finch Vija Celmins artful somethings spun from nothings.

June 11, 2010	Judge Jerry Recaps by Jerry Saltz Some thoughts from behind the scenes on Bravo’s Work of Art reality show.

June 11, 2010	POLKEPHEMERA by Charlie Finch RIP Sigmar Polke, 1941-2010.

June 9, 2010	PSYCHEDELIC! AT THE WHITNEY! by Charlie Finch Let’s get old-school at Breuer’s Big Brute this July.

June 10, 2010	MY FRIEND FLICKR by Charlie Finch Some final words on Marina Abramovic’s "The Artist Is Present"

June 4, 2010	The Heroic Louise Bourgeois by Jerry Saltz Louise Bourgeois was as filled with anger as she was with wit and incredulity.

June 4, 2010	THE ESTHETICS OF BP by Charlie Finch Artists must lead the fight against corporate propaganda.

June 3, 2010	WHAT MARINA WROUGHT by Charlie Finch The enduring effects of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present.

June 2, 2010	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen The census elf, the robots of the Lower East Side, and "I Need Your Skull" at MF Gallery.

June 2, 2010	BOURGEOISIE by Charlie Finch Louise Bourgeois was not much of an artist, but she was a helluva lot of fun.

June 1, 2010	ONE FOR THE HOPPER by Charlie Finch Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010.

June 1, 2010	In the End, It Was All About You by Jerry Saltz How "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" turned the viewer into the viewed.

May

May 28, 2010	SUMMING UP THE SEASON by Charlie Finch The foibles and fashions of the 2009-2010 school year.

May 25, 2010	THE CASE OF THEODOROS STAMOS by Daniel Grant Is the art market ready to forgive?

May 25, 2010	DUST TO DUST by Matthew Bown What we pay for art, what it means, and where that value comes from.

May 24, 2010	NOT JUST PRETTY GARDENS by Jerry Saltz The untamed beauty of Monet’s last paintings.

May 21, 2010	WHEN WILL ART TRULY CROSS OVER? by Charlie Finch Mad Ave drains the truth from Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

May 19, 2010	RADICAL NATURE by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy "Claude Monet: Late Work" shows the artist at his most lyrical.

May 17, 2010	IN THE MIRROR OF THE PAST by Donald Kuspit Daniel Ludwig and the "great machine" of romantic literary painting.

May 17, 2010	NOT A CAMP CLASSIC by Charlie Finch Uncovering Justine and the Boys, Colette’s forgotten cult film from the late 1970s.

May 14, 2010	AUCTION ECONOMICS by Charlie Finch Painting the tape, baskets of art, auction choreography and other market mechanics.

May 13, 2010	FAILING UPWARDS by Charlie Finch The ass-backwards road to success.

May 12, 2010	ROBERT GOFF REINVENTS HIMSELF by Charlie Finch The knicknack school of painting, from a New York art dealer.

May 11, 2010	THE ULTIMATE METAPHOR by Charlie Finch Doug and Mike Starn’s Big Bambú as the all pervasive net of nature and culture.

May 10, 2010	HIM AND HER by Charlie Finch Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s real legacy for public art.

May 10, 2010	THE PICASSOS FROM THE BASEMENT by Jerry Saltz The Met’s enormous show of its own collection is short on Cubism -- which may be a blessing.

May 7, 2010	CAN DEACCESSIONING STRENGTHEN THE MARKET? by Charlie Finch The defibrillations of the auction business.

May 6, 2010	REMEMBERING JEANNE-CLAUDE by Michèle C. Cone Publicly at the Metropolitan Museum, and on a personal note.

May 6, 2010	BLIND POWER by Charlie Finch Some art-world blind items for May.

April

Apr. 30, 2010	MUST BAD PAINTING BE GOOD? by Charlie Finch The haphazard gesture beckons to the lazy collector.

Apr. 28, 2010	CAROLEE THE PAINTER by Charlie Finch Carolee Schneemann’s "Within and Beyond the Premises" at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.

Apr. 23, 2010	THE COWARDS OF THE BLOGOSPHERE by Charlie Finch Who’s where on the Marlene Dumas "blacklist" story.

Apr. 21, 2010	SHADES OF GRAY by Robert G. Edelman The familial subjects of Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal.

Apr. 21, 2010	TILTON AT WINDMILLS by Charlie Finch Veteran dealer’s explosive testimony in the Marlene Dumas blacklist case.

Apr. 21, 2010	SPARE CHANGE by Charlie Finch Remembering Nancy Spero (1926-2009) and the work that has just begun.

Apr. 19, 2010	LET’S RECONSIDER by Jerry Saltz Finding something to like in the work of Marlene Dumas.

Apr. 19, 2010	STILL RAINING, STILL DREAMING by Charlie Finch Special for spring, the real secret of art.

Apr. 16, 2010	NAKED CAME I by Charlie Finch Performers find Marina Abramovic’s work just a little too touching.

Apr. 16, 2010	PLIAGE by Joe Fyfe The French painter Simon Hantaï (1922-2008).

Apr. 13, 2010	WORK OF ART 1946 by Charlie Finch Orson Welles is your host, live from the St. Regis Hotel.

Apr. 9, 2010	THE SHOCK OF THE NEW by Charlie Finch The New Museum, the Mr. Potato Head of contemporary art museums.

Apr. 7, 2010	CLUB MOMA by Charlie Finch Previewing "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Apr. 7, 2010	MARINA: THE MUSICAL by Charlie Finch Rothko is on Broadway, why not set Abramovic to music?

Apr. 6, 2010	LESS THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS by Jerry Saltz "Skin Fruit," the New Museum’s show curated by Jeff Koons, highlights the cracks in the institution.

Apr. 6, 2010	RITUAL JADES by N.F. Karlins Jade funerary objects from ca. 1600-771 BCE at Throckmorton Fine Art.

March

Mar. 31, 2010	STRANGER THAN FICTION An interview with Daniel Bozhkov by David Coggins From Bulgarian-born New York artist Daniel Bozhkov, an absurdist approach to daunting themes.

Mar. 29, 2010	A VISIT FROM CHRISSIE by Charlie Finch Jet-set curating and the art of sadomasochism.

Mar. 26, 2010	HIGH COTTON by Charlie Finch Joe Zucker’s "Cotton Paintings" from 1976 make an impressive comeback.

Mar. 25, 2010	THE CHICANO AVANT-GARDE by Walter Robinson "Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement" at el Museo del Barrio.

Mar. 24, 2010	CRITICAL DIX by Donald Kuspit Otto Dix was first and foremost a critic of capitalism.

Mar. 22, 2010	SENTRIES OF SECURITY by Charlie Finch Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon at Madison Square Park in Manhattan.

Mar. 19, 2010	MR. ED by Charlie Finch Ed Paschke becomes his own American icon.

Mar. 19, 2010	Enthusiast Unbound An interview with Rosson Crow by David Coggins A woman painter takes over some masculine territory.

Mar. 18, 2010	ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING by James Croak New works by Leonardo Drew possess a spirit of 1940s expressionism.

Mar. 17, 2010	REMEMBERING DIA by Jerry Saltz The end of an era.

Mar. 17, 2010	PERFORMANCE ART IS A BORE by Charlie Finch Time to shut down the genre.

Mar. 15, 2010	PLAIN TRUTHS by N.F. Karlins A retrospective look at the art of Grandma Moses at Galerie St. Etienne.

Mar. 12, 2010	GENITAL CONTACT by Jerry Saltz Visiting "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Mar. 12, 2010	PAPER CHASE by Deborah Ripley An interview with David Krut, producer of William Kentridge’s suite of 30 etchings for The Nose.

Mar. 9, 2010	AFRICA’S ALCHEMIST by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy El Anatsui’s metal tapestries transform dross into gold.

Mar. 11, 2010	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen A tale of two biennials, the Whitney’s "2010" and the Bruce High Quality Foundation "Miseducation."

Mar. 11, 2010	WILLIAM POWHIDA IS MAKING FUN OF ME by Jerry Saltz And I love it.

Mar. 11, 2010	THE MOUNTAIN OF ART by Charlie Finch If you estheticize U.S. debt obligations and sell the resulting product on the art market. . .

Mar. 10, 2010	POUND FOR POUND by Charlie Finch Remembering Omar Shakespear Pound, putative son of poet Ezra Pound.

Mar. 9, 2010	THE OBAMA BIENNIAL "2010" is alternatively moving and frustrating -- and a big improvement on what came before.

Mar. 9, 2010	AFRICA’S ALCHEMIS by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy El Anatsui’s metal tapestries transform dross into gold.

Mar. 8, 2010	MEMORIES OF RUTH by Charlie Finch Ruth Kligman, 1930-2010.

Mar. 5, 2010	AMERICAN ABYSS by Carlo McCormick You have one day to catch Alexandre Arrechea’s Black Sun in Times Square.

Mar. 5, 2010	WHO IS DAKIS JOANNOU? by Charlie Finch A look at the business dealings of the Greek supercollector.

Mar. 4, 2010	MODEL MODERNIST by Walter Robinson The curiosities of Félix Vallotton’s studio portraits from the early 1900s.

Mar. 2, 2010	A BRUCELLANY by Charlie Finch A down-and-dirty guide to Brucennial value, literally.

Mar. 1, 2010	HEADLESS HIRST by Charlie Finch Damien Hirst declares an "End of an Era."

February

Feb. 26, 2010	SPEEDING BULLET by Donald Kuspit Beatrice Caracciolo drawings embrace the Existenstialists’ "dreadful freedom."

Feb. 25, 2010	PARTY PICTURES An interview with Jeremy Kost by Walter Robinson Identity and transformation in nightlife around the world.

Feb. 25, 2010	LUMPY GRAVY by Charlie Finch William Kentridge and the second coming of Julius Knipfl.

Feb. 24, 2010	VIDEO CABARET by Michèle C. Cone "Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde" at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Feb. 23, 2010	A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by Charlie Finch A few good words for the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Feb. 22, 2010	BRICKTOP by Charlie Finch Derrick Adams throws down a gauntlet of taboo.

Feb. 22, 2010	DEVELOPING by Jerry Saltz Twenty years ago, Wolfgang Tillmans reimagined what a photo could be. Now he’s doing it again.

Feb. 19, 2010	GRAPHIC GRISTLE by Carlo McCormick Graffiti veteran Todd James makes an appearance on Fifth Avenue.

Feb. 19, 2010	OBJECT LESSONS by Charlie Finch Out at Alexander and Bonin, Anna Kustera and David Zwirner galleries.

Feb. 18, 2010	THE MYTH OF MYSELF (AND MODERNISM) by Donald Kuspit Reevaluating the Italian Neo-Expressionist Sandro Chia at his retrospective in Rome.

Feb. 17, 2010	AN EDGY MASTER by N.F. Karlins "Demons and Devotions: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves" at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Feb. 17, 2010	JUICE AT THE BRUCE by Charlie Finch Get on board for the Bruce High Quality Foundation "Art Rescue Vehicle"

Feb. 16, 2010	How I Made an Artwork Cry by Jerry Saltz Tino Sehgal’s sets up a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey at the Guggenheim.

Feb. 12, 2010	BAIT AND SWITCH by Charlie Finch Tax the rich to revitalize the (art) economy.

Feb. 10, 2010	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Braving personal challenges for the sake of "Bring Your Own Art."

Feb. 9, 2010	JIMBO DRY LAKE FOCUS ANGLE by Peter Plagens California conceptualist Merwin Belin likes the tricky angles.

Feb. 8, 2010	MANNERISM IS US by Jerry Saltz Agnolo Bronzino at the Met makes you feel a hot kind of cold.

Feb. 8, 2010	CAGEY by Charlie Finch Sterling Ruby’s "2Traps" and the cage esthetic.

Feb. 5, 2010	BLADE RUNNERS by Charlie Finch Kiki Seror and the intertia of male microscopia.

Feb. 3, 2010	PURPLE HAZE by Charlie Finch Irving Petlin and the deadly ambiguity of suffering.

January

Jan. 29, 2010	INTO THE RYE by Charlie Finch J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010

Jan. 28, 2010	LES IS MORE by Charlie Finch New paintings by Les Rogers, plus a note on Julian Schnabel.

Jan. 27, 2010	MASTERPIECE MAGIC by Charlie Finch Inka Essenhigh’s "The Old New Age" at 303 Gallery.

Jan. 22, 2010	WHY NEW YORK WILL MISS JEFFREY DEITCH by Jerry Saltz A brief good-bye.

Jan. 20, 2010	A LOST WORLD, FOUND by Charlie Finch "The Lost World of Old Europe" at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Jan. 19, 2010	JOY IN THE MORNING by Charlie Finch Art has become a golden scarab on the mountain of life.

Jan. 15, 2010	SECRET POWERS An interview with Joanna Malinowska by David Coggins New Wave jazz musician, composer, actor and artist John Lurie on his new paintings.

Jan. 15, 2010	Through History to Authenticity: John Millei’s Paintings by Donald Kuspit Turning artistic territory into a terra incognita of abstraction and existential mystery.

Jan. 13, 2010	SHAMELESSLY PLUGGING MY MIDDLE AGED FRIENDS by Charlie Finch Bushwick’s new Storefront gallery, George Negroponte at Kouros, and news of Steve Van Nort and Deborah Kass.

Jan. 11, 2010	ASIAN PATHWAYS by N.F. Karlins "Traveling the Silk Road" at the American Museum of Natural History.

Jan. 11, 2010	WHAT DEITCH MEANS FOR L.A. by Charlie Finch A Cecil B. DeMille for a beleaguered L.A. MOCA.

Jan. 8, 2010	OUR MONSTER by Carlo McCormick Time to be saved by the deranged visions of Robert Williams.

Jan. 8, 2010	THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP by Charlie Finch Patti Smith and the bric-a-brac of life.

Jan. 6, 2010	MIX AND MATCH by Charlie Finch A modest proposal regarding Urs Fischer, Gabriel Orozco and our leading art critics.

Jan. 5, 2010	ON TARGET by Charlie Finch Kenneth Noland, 1924-2010.

Jan. 4, 2010	THE END OF THE BEGINNING by Charlie Finch The sum of art in five minutes of Basquiat.

Jan. 4, 2010	PICKING OVER THE BONES by Jerry Saltz Has Gabriel Orozco’s interesting weirdness turned into plain old shtick?

December

Dec. 29, 2009	THE CARROT OF CARICATURE by Charlie Finch David Levine, 1926-2009.

Dec. 28, 2009	ROUND THE BEND INTO 2010 by Charlie Finch Waving the wand for the coming year.

Dec. 22, 2009	PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE by Charlie Finch Death is part of life.

Dec. 22, 2009	THE REAL IN PHOTOREALISM by Donald Kuspit When ruthless objectivity becomes disturbingly unreal.

Dec. 21, 2009	A WINTER’S TALE by Walter Robinson Mel Kendricks’ "Markers" at Madison Square Park.

Dec. 18, 2009	CHRIS MASS TIME by Charlie Finch Watching painter Chris Martin talk to students, via YouTube.

Dec. 16, 2009	Velázquez Rediscovered by Paul Jeromack The inside story of the Met’s new Velásquez portrait.

Dec. 16, 2009	ZAHM BAM! by Charlie Finch Olivier Zahm’s perve party from the city of light.

Dec. 14, 2009	WHEN THE LOW WENT VERY HIGH by Jerry Saltz Jeff Koons is the artist of the 2000-2009 decade.

Dec. 11, 2009	THE THRIFT SHOP BIENNIAL by Charlie Finch Whistle while you work the recycling bins.

Dec. 10, 2009	THE COMMANDER by Charlie Finch Thomas Hoving, 1931-2009.

Dec. 9, 2009	GABRIEL MEETS THE GLOBE by Charlie Finch "Gabriel Orozco" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Dec. 8, 2009	ART DEALER’S DIARY by Kenny Schachter Art collecting is a macho business.

Dec. 8, 2009	HAS ART JUMPED THE SHARK? by Charlie Finch Signs point to yes.

Dec. 8, 2009	ABU DHABI REPORT by Nazy Nazhand Highlights of the inaugural Abu Dhabi Art fair.

Dec. 7, 2009	GUSTON’S FINGER PUPPETS by Charlie Finch Philip Guston’s "Small Oils on Panel, 1969-1973" at McKee Gallery.

Dec. 3, 2009	ARTYRDOM by Charlie Finch Does the marginalization of fine art have something to do with the fakeness of its transgressions?

Dec. 2, 2009	WAR MACHINE by Donald Kuspit The Bauhaus as a purveyor of anonymity and mechanization.

Dec. 2, 2009	IMMORTAL BELOVED by Elisabeth Kley Slater Bradley studies the mournful aura of Joy Division.

Dec. 1, 2009	RICHTER’S EARTHQUAKE by Jerry Saltz The German master deploys his ultrapowerful technique to evoke 9/11.

November

Nov. 30, 2009	STUDIO INSIDER by Joe Fyfe Reassessing the artistic accomplishments of the painter Mercedes Matter.

Nov. 30, 2009	NOUGHT FOR THE AUGHTS by Charlie Finch The gaudy and outrageous decade.

Nov. 25, 2009	ARTIST UNBOUND by Richard Polsky Barnaby Conrad III shows new paintings at M. Sutherland Fine Arts.

Nov. 23, 2009	ATMOSPHERE by Charlie Finch "Cold Water" at La Mama Galleria and Lucio Pozzi at Creon Gallery.

Nov. 18, 2009	MERRY AMERICA by Michèle C. Cone Race in depictions of music and pleasure in 18th- and 19th-century American painting.

Nov. 17, 2009	WHO WANTS MORE? An interview with Olaf Breuning by David Coggins< Olaf Breuning on zombies, corporate advertising and discount travel.

Nov. 17, 2009	SMALL BEER by Charlie Finch The conflicts of interest in l’Affaire Joannou are all too familiar.

Nov. 12, 2009	A SHORT HISTORY OF MASTURBATION by Charlie Finch Art’s primal secret, found in Sterling Ruby’s "The Masturbators."

Nov. 10, 2009	THE UNFORBIDDEN by Charlie Finch Richard Hell, Brigitte Engler and some other guy at Bowman/Bloom Gallery in the East Village.

Nov. 9, 2009	A WHOLE NEW MUSEUM by Jerry Saltz The Urs Fischer-izing of a four-story institution.

Nov. 9, 2009	MAKING "HEAT WAVES" by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp An interview with artist Robert Gober, curator of a new Charles Burchfield show.

Nov. 9, 2009	A WRINKLE IN TIME by Charlie Finch Silvia Sleigh’s portraits of art-world notables from the 1960s and ’70s.

Nov. 6, 2009	A WALK IN THE WOODS by Charlie Finch The refreshingly bucolic David Hockney.

Nov. 4, 2009	TUNA FISCH by Charlie Finch Andy Warhol’s Tunafish Disaster meets Urs Fischer at the New Museum.

Nov. 3, 2009	ABSTRACTION WITHOUT BOUNDARIES by Donald Kuspit Frank Stella, Martha Russo and "boundless abstraction."

Nov. 2, 2009	THE ARTFUL DIMAGGIO by Charlie Finch Eva Lake’s collage of Joe Dimaggio at Cinders Gallery provokes thoughts of the legendary baseballer.

October

Oct. 30, 2009	SHADOW MAN by Charlie Finch Harlem Renaissance photographer Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009.

Oct. 27, 2009	PARADISE ISLAND by N.F. Karlins Antoine Watteau in three exhibitions in New York museums.

Oct. 22, 2009	KIMONO MASTER by Charlie Finch Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design" at Japan Society Gallery

Oct. 20, 2009	THE FIERY FOREST by Charlie Finch An environment worth watching by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen.

Oct. 16, 2009	A New Kind of Boom by Jerry Saltz Despite the dire predictions, galleries and artists are busting out.

Oct. 15, 2009	A LACK ATTACK by Charlie Finch Paintings by the legendary polysexual sybarite Stephen Lack.

Oct. 14, 2009	NO BONES ABOUT IT by David Coggins New Wave jazz musician, composer, actor and artist John Lurie on his new paintings.

Oct. 13, 2009	HIRST’S BLUE PERIOD by Simon Todd Damien Hirst’s "No Love Lost: Blue Paintings" at the Wallace Collection in London.

Oct. 13, 2009	WHAT THE OBAMAS SHOULD HAVE BORROWED by Charlie Finch A modest proposal, or two.

Oct. 13, 2009	Obama’s Startling White House Art by Jerry Saltz Obama’s art picks embody his temperament: gathering all the facts, then making a decisive move.

Oct. 13, 2009	TRANSPARENCY AT THE WHITNEY? by Charlie Finch The conflicted public interests in museum patronage.

Oct. 9, 2009	IS FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY ART? by Charlie Finch Irving Penn and the art of fashion.

Oct. 9, 2009	JOHNSON AND ART by Charlie Finch Notes on the tercentenary of the first great modernist, Samuel Johnson.

Oct. 8, 2009	MACHINE FOR LIVING by Xavier LaBoulbenne The Bauhaus on its 90th anniversary.

Oct. 8, 2009	JUNGER THAN THAT NOW by Charlie Finch C.G. Jung’s Red Book at the Rubin Museum of Art.

Oct. 7, 2009	INSIDE OUT by Oriane Stender The never-ending story of the South Carolina artist Aldwyth.

Oct. 6, 2009	WHAT IF NO ONE COLLECTED? by Charlie Finch Most art instantly disappears.

Oct. 6, 2009	BOOK PARTY by Deborah Ripley The 2009 New York Art Book Fair at P.S.1.

Oct. 5, 2009	Cézanne and America by N.F. Karlins In a groundbreaking exhibition, the Montclair Art Museum examines Paul Cézanne’s influence on American artists.

Oct. 2, 2009	RUPPERSBERG TIME by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The unique literary sensibility of California Conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg.

Oct. 2, 2009	PHOTO SHOP by Charlie Finch Jewels of MoMA’s new photo installation.

Oct. 1, 2009	IT’S A HARD POP LIFE by Laura K. Jones Tate Modern unveils "Pop Life: Art in a Material World."

September

Sept. 30, 2009	PATCHING IT OVER by Donald Kuspit The deconstructed picture in Conrad Marca-Relli’s collages.

Sept. 29, 2009	THE BIG HURT by Charlie Finch Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker.

Sept. 28, 2009	OUT OF THE EROTIC GHETTO by Jerry Saltz The Whitney’s welcome retrospective rescues Georgia O’Keeffe from sex and flowers.

Sept. 25, 2009	STILL A FRAUD by Charlie Finch Deconstructing Dave Hickey

Sept. 24, 2009	THE LONELY CROWD by Charlie Finch Shutterbug Christopher Dawson captures the other side of public events.

Sept. 22, 2009	SOCKCUCKER BLUES by Charlie Finch On Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues.

Sept. 22, 2009	Falling Apart And Holding Together: Kandinsky’s Development by Donald Kuspit Kandinsky’s development as seen in "Kandinsky" at the Guggenheim Museum.

Sept. 21, 2009	THE SAN FRANCISCO SENSBILITY by Charlie Finch Sherry Wong makes San Francisco subcultures a family affair.

Sept. 18, 2009	THE TYRANNY OF THE SMALL by Charlie Finch Tauba Auerbach and human helplessness.

Sept. 16, 2009	TAKEOVER ARTIST by David Coggins Belgian painter Luc Tuymans talks about his traveling U.S. retrospective.

Sept. 16, 2009	DA DO RON RON by Charlie Finch An art-celebrity-packed tribute to Mary Boone Gallery director Ron Warren.

Sept. 15, 2009	I SOLD ANDY WARHOL, AN EXCERPT by Richard Polsky Chapter 11 of the new book, I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon).

Sept. 14, 2009	THE SMOKY LIFE by Joe Fyfe David Novros shows his abstract paintings from the 1960s at Paula Cooper Gallery.

Sept. 14, 2009	WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG by Charlie Finch Remembering the 1960s with Dennis Hopper’s photographs.

Sept. 14, 2009	A SHOT OF WRY by Charlie Finch Photographer Tim Davis and "The New Antiquity."

Sept. 11, 2009	MOANIN' WITH MONET by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art re-presents "Monet’s Water Lilies."

Sept. 10, 2009	THE TONY SHAFRAZI STORY by Lisa Zeitz Tony Shafrazi talks about Guernica, more.

Sept. 9, 2009	THREE-DAY WEEKEND An 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.

Sept. 9, 2009	COEFFICIENT by Charlie Finch Wayne Coe’s sidewalk drawings.

Sept. 8, 2009	OCTOBER by Charlie Finch Uli Edel's film The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Sept. 3, 2009	MOTHER-IN-LAW by Charlie Finch Anne Truitt at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Sept. 2, 2009	THE VARIETIES OF BODY by Donald Kuspit The National Academy Museum’s "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009."

August

Aug. 31, 2009	I LOVE SUSAN SILAS by Charlie Finch The New York photographer has a show coming up.

Aug. 31, 2009	JERRY SALTZ’S WANT-TO-SEES by Jerry Saltz Shows that New York Magazine’s resident art critic is anticipating this fall.

Aug. 26, 2009	GIVEN, FINALLY by Lewis Kachur The Philadelphia Museum of Art takes another look at Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés.

Aug. 25, 2009	IN SEARCH OF THE VISUAL by Charlie Finch An art hiatus in the multiplex.

Aug. 21, 2009	LUNCH WITH BAIBAKOVA by Simon Todd Maria Baibakova and the Red October Chocolate Factory.

Aug. 21, 2009	THE OTHER JACK by Charlie Finch Jack Tworkov at UBS Art Gallery.

Aug. 20, 2009	STING LIKE A BUTTERFLY, FLOAT LIKE A BEE by Charlie Finch A summer mediation on boxing, Muhammad Ali and the fate of the American rebel.

Aug. 17, 2009	NOUVEL RICHE by Charlie Finch A city planning commission vignette, starring MoMA’s proposed skyscraper.

Aug. 17, 2009	DUKE RILEY’S INSANE TRIUMPH by Jerry Saltz Museum vs. museum in Flushing Meadows.

Aug. 14, 2009	ON THE SPECTACLE OF THE EVERYDAY by Hou Hanru The curator of the upcoming Biennale de Lyon explains his concept.

Aug. 13, 2009	THE AVANT-GARDE by Charlie Finch Will there ever be an avant-garde again?

Aug. 11, 2009	DANCING WITH THE STARS by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at 100.

Aug. 10, 2009	SEE HER ROAR by Ilka Scobie The expatriate love goddess Dorothy Iannone comes home to the U.S.

Aug. 6, 2009	THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Charlie Finch Another art decade draws to a close.

Aug. 3, 2009	REMEMBER THE ALAMO by Charlie Finch Tony Rosenthal, 1914-2009.

July

July 30, 2009	Design Time by Charlie Finch "Ron Arad: No Discipline" at the Museum of Modern Art.

July 29, 2009	FLESH PERSPECTIVE by Sidney Lawrence "Paint Made Flesh" at the Phillips Collection.

July 28, 2009	NINE WAYS TO MAKE MONEY IN THE ART MARKET by Richard Polsky The simple way to success.

July 27, 2009	WE THREE by Charlie Finch Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009.

July 23, 2009	THREE DEALERS by Charlie Finch The High Line is the death knell for the Chelsea galley scene.

July 21, 2009	INSIDE MAN by Ilka Scobie Eric Fischl on Tumbling Woman, bullfights and his travelling art train.

July 17, 2009	THE HARVEST OF ART by Charlie Finch A captured piece of time.

July 16, 2009	NINE WAYS TO LOSE MONEY IN THE ART MARKET by Richard Polsky Rules for the new recession.

July 14, 2009	TOYS WILL BE TOYS by Charlie Finch At Japan Society, a show of Japanese toy autos from the post-war years.

July 13, 2009	DASH IT by Charlie Finch Dash Snow, 1981-2009

July 13, 2009	TEEING UP THE 20TH CENTURY by Jerry Saltz In Belgium 120 years ago, James Ensor let his freak flag fly.

July 10, 2009	GODDESS OR GYNECOLOGY? by Donald Kuspit Robert Graham’s female nude.

July 9, 2009	DARK STAR by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Larry Johnson at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

July 9, 2009	Dick In Hand by Kenny Schachter Art 40 Basel and the current art market.

July 8, 2009	BLIND ON BLIND by Charlie Finch A parable for the art recession.

July 7, 2009	GRAHAMARAMA by Peter Scott The fractured self in "Dan Graham: Beyond" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

July 7, 2009	BOVACIOUS by Charlie Finch Carol Bove’s "Plants and Animals" at the Horticultural Society of New York.

July 2, 2009	KALEIDOSCOPE QUILTS by N.F. Karlins A retrospective of Paula Nadelstern’s pieced quilts at the American Folk Art Museum.

June

June 29, 2009	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?

June 29, 2009	MICHAEL AND JEFF by Charlie Finch Childhood as a signifier of dread in fairy tales by Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons.

June 26, 2009	Art’s Near Future by Jerry Saltz X-Initiative’s "No Soul For Sale" shows the way.

June 24, 2009	BAD TO THE BONE by Charlie Finch If you like the funnies, you’ll love James Ensor.

June 22, 2009	WILL COLLECTORS STEP FORWARD? by Charlie Finch A challenge to art buyers.

June 18, 2009	ANOTHER NEW YORK MEMORY by Charlie Finch Frank Herbert Mason, 1921-2009.

June 16, 2009	FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF VENICE by Jerry Saltz Contemplating the Venice Biennale after the party has left town.

June 16, 2009	PEEING WITH BRENDAN by Charlie Finch BARR, aka Brendan Fowler, performs at the New Museum.

June 15, 2009	Dude, You’ve Gotta See This by Jerry Saltz Three Charles Ray sculptures at Matthew Marks are a total trip.

June 11, 2009	HAROLD AND MAUDE by Charlie Finch Megumi Sasaki’s new documentary, Herb & Dorothy.

June 9, 2009	NAUMAN AND JOHNS by Charlie Finch Contrasting visions of despair from two celebrated contemporary artists.

June 8, 2009	A VISIT TO SHANGRI LA by N.F. Karlins Doris Duke’s Islamic treasure trove in Honolulu.

June 5, 2009	THE DEATH OF A POET by Charlie Finch Robert Colescott, 1925-2009.

June 5, 2009	CHRIST IN THE CAR by Charlie Finch The esthetics of the auto in contemporary America.

June 4, 2009	THE HEATHER WILCOXON STORY by Richard Polsky Making art the old-fashioned bohemian way.

June 4, 2009	INTO THE NIGHT by Charlie Finch Yale’s disingenuous lawsuit over van Gogh’s Night Cafe.

June 1, 2009	WANDERING AND PONDERING by Charlie Finch A slow summer art season begins.

May

May 29, 2009	THE LADY HOSMER by Charlie Finch Patricia Cronin’s homage to the 19th-century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer.

May 28, 2009	THE KUSAMA MYTH by Jody B. Cutler Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Gallery.

May 27, 2009	SACRED MONSTER by Jerry Saltz Francis Bacon, the greatest painter of the 20th century, or fascinating mess?

May 27, 2009	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT MOMA by Charlie Finch Warhol and LeWitt win out over Mira Schendel and Leon Ferrari at MoMA.

May 20, 2009	TWO COATS OF PAIN by Charlie Finch A modest proposal to put downtown galleries in empty Madison Avenue storefronts.

May 18, 2009	GREAT ARTISTS STEAL by Jerry Saltz "The Pictures Generation" -- better than the criticism that grew up around it.

May 16, 2009	DEATH OF AN ARTIST by Charlie Finch John Michelini, RIP.

May 15, 2009	WINNERS AND LOSERS by Richard Polsky An after-sale assessment of the contemporary art market, fall 2009.

May 15, 2009	BEING CHRISTINA by Charlie Finch Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World at the Museum of Modern Art.

May 14, 2009	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen A visit to "The Model as Muse" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

May 12, 2009	BEARDED RAINBOWS by Charlie Finch Pablo Picasso is a bowlful of fun.

May 8, 2009	GOT MIK? by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art presents films by Dutch artist Aernout Mik.

May 4, 2009	VEGAS IN THE BRONX by Charlie Finch A new springtime for the Yankees.

April

Apr. 29, 2009	OUT OF IRAQ by Charlie Finch Artist Ahmed Alsoudani and the chaos of Iraq.

Apr. 28, 2009	THE ULTIMATE REALIST by Donald Kuspit Steven Assael and the four kinds of realism.

Apr. 27, 2009	WHEN THE PAINT DISAPPEARS by Charlie Finch New paintings by Alex Katz and Che Lovelace.

Apr. 23, 2009	DRAWN AND QUARTERED by Charlie Finch "Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Apr. 22, 2009	POLITICS OF PAINTING Richard Phillips and the erotics of capitalism. An interview by Alisa Barenboym and Katerina Llanes.

Apr. 20, 2009	"JESUS" SAVES by Jerry Saltz God bless the New Museum’s tantalizing triennial.

Apr. 20, 2009	COIN OPERATOR by Charlie Finch William Metcalf and Yale University’s coin collection.

Apr. 17, 2009	MARILYN AND BIRD by Charlie Finch The true arts of America.

Apr. 14, 2009	LOLITOS IN FAG LIMBO by Michèle C. Cone Hernan Bas and the ambiguous desires of adolescence.

Apr. 13, 2009	ROMANCE OF CAPITAL by Walter Robinson "Women: A Loan Exhibition from the Collection of Steven and Alexandra Cohen" at Sotheby’s New York.

Apr. 13, 2009	JESUS RESPONDS by Charlie Finch "Younger than Jesus" at the New Museum.

Apr. 8, 2009	CAILLEBOTTE IN BROOKLYN by N.F. Karlins "Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea" at the Brooklyn Museum.

Apr. 8, 2009	Asia on My Mind by Donald Kuspit "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989" at the Guggenheim Museum.

Apr. 7, 2009	THE COMING ART BOOM by Charlie Finch Market conditions are perfect for a resurgence in classic contemporary.

Apr. 6, 2009	JOHN JR. by Charlie Finch An image of lost youth in John Waters’ "Rear Projection."

Apr. 2, 2009	The Storm That Never Came by Richard Polsky Top collectors have deep pockets.

Apr. 1, 2009	THOSE CRAZY LITTLE FILMS ON ART by David D’Arcy A report from the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal.

March

Mar. 31, 2009	LEVITTATION by Charlie Finch Helen Levitt, 1913-2009.

Mar. 30, 2009	ENERGY TO BURN by Jerry Saltz Two new gallery spaces in New York are, if not fully realized, rich in possibility.

Mar. 30, 2009	ANOTHER COUNTRY by Charlie Finch New exhibitions by Michalene Thomas and William Villalongo.

Mar. 27, 2009	Charley Toorop, Moral Realist by Donald Kuspit The human condition was an esthetic condition for the Dutch painter Charley Toorop.

Mar. 25, 2009	EVACUATION OF THE WEST by Charlie Finch A downbeat look at the American West in MoMA’s "Into the Sunset."

Mar. 23, 2009	THE QUIET WORLD OF GABI HAMM by Charlie Finch Painted portraits and the power of personality.

Mar. 23, 2009	AFTER THE ORGY by Jerry Saltz Some art-boom heroes (Lisa Yuskavage) feel suddenly dated. Others (Rudolf Stingel) are perfectly present.

Mar. 20, 2009	The Artist Who Did Everything by Jerry Saltz Martin Kippenberger offers a guide for artists looking for ways around pessimism and gamesmanship.

Mar. 19, 2009	GRACELAND by Charlie Finch Photographer Tanyth Berkeley and her model Grace.

Mar. 19, 2009	Berlin, Mon Amour by Donald Kuspit A visit to two collections of Surrealist art, Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial, and more, in Berlin.

Mar. 17, 2009	ORIENTALISM & THE ART MARKET by Adrian Dannatt A visit with Shafik Gabr, Egypt’s premiere collector of Orientalist art.

Mar. 17, 2009	INCOMPLETE by Charlie Finch Dana Schutz and the perils of history.

Mar. 16, 2009	CHA ON THIS! by Charlie Finch Xavier Cha and the beauty factory.

Mar. 9, 2009	HOORAY FOR HAROLD! by Charlie Finch New tales from Abraham Lincoln expert (and Met communications chief) Harold Holzer.

Mar. 9, 2009	CÉZANNE AND BEYOND by N.F. Karlins A new exhibition celebrates the influence of the 19th-century artist on 18 of his 20th-century colleagues.

Mar. 6, 2009	MORALITY PLAY by Jerry Saltz The art market is more moral than the stock market -- isn’t it?

Mar. 5, 2009	BREAST MILK by Charlie Finch The price of objectification in Kathleen Gilje’s portraits of women.

Mar. 3, 2009	NO SMILES AT MOMA by Charlie Finch The museum stamps out a bit of free creativity.

Mar. 3, 2009	THE PRICING ISSUE by Richard Polsky Two difficulties with the new recessionary art market.

February

Feb. 26, 2009	EPISTLE TO KIPPY by Charlie Finch "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Feb. 25, 2009	COLD WAR CULTURES by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp From LACMA, a wide-ranging survey of post-war German art in "Art of Two Germanys"

Feb. 24, 2009	BROKEN GHOSTS by Charlie Finch New work by Lisa Yuskavage and Susan Rothenberg.

Feb. 23, 2009	I LOVE SAATCHI by Kenny Schachter A look at the new space of the king of British art patrons.

Feb. 18, 2009	DOWN WITH THE CUBE! by Jerry Saltz White Columns’ anniversary show proves that galleries can (and should) enliven art.

Feb. 18, 2009	COPING WITH COPLANS by Charlie Finch Revisiting the photographs of the late John Coplans.

Feb. 17, 2009	DRAWING NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins "Master Drawings New York," plus major shows at the Met and the Morgan.

Feb. 13, 2009	GROUNDHOG’S DIARY by Charlie Finch Piero Manzoni, Imi Knoebel, Jeremy Earhart, Andrea Zittel, Kepler and Lipon, Janet Biggs, more.

Feb. 12, 2009	LADY COURAGE by Charlie Finch Leila Hadley Luce, 1925-2009.

Feb. 11, 2009	THE SHOW OF THE SEASON by Charlie Finch Tadashi Kawamata’s "Tree Huts" capture the recessionary zeitgeist.

Feb. 11, 2009	FASHION IS EVERYWHERE by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy A "year of fashion" at the International Center of Photography.

Feb. 10, 2009	THE BEST "ART 101" by Thomas Hoving Art that changes your life forever.

Feb. 9, 2009	INSIDE THE SHEPARD FAIREY CASE by Charlie Finch Portraits of Barack Obama at Danziger Projects.

Feb. 9, 2009	Reeling In the Years by Jerry Saltz Surviving 875 years of On Kawara.

Feb. 5, 2009	WEAPONS OF MAD DESTRUCTION by Charlie Finch Native American warrior art and artifacts at the new John Molloy Gallery in Manhattan.

Feb. 4, 2009	Leaving Eden by Jerry Saltz The Last Days of Pipilotti Rist’s Pour Your Body Out (7354 Meters).

Feb. 3, 2009	PASCAL’S PUZZLES by Charlie Finch Matt Johnson’s "Super System" inaugurates Taxter & Spengemann’s new gallery space.

January

Jan. 30, 2009	SCREWTUBE by Charlie Finch Old corporate profits in the new democratic media.

Jan. 29, 2009	HAVING A RAVE UP! by Charlie Finch Artist Mickalene Thomas curates "The Brand New Heavies" at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side.

Jan. 27, 2009	Manhattan Mega Storage by Jerry Saltz Vic Muniz’s "Rebus" offers a formula to save MoMA.

Jan. 26, 2009	A BAD LIGHT SHOW by Charlie Finch Robert Irwin’s "Red Drawing White Drawing Black Painting"

Jan. 22, 2009	COLLECTVISM WORKS! by Charlie Finch Wake up from the bad-dream art world of star dealer hegemony!

Jan. 21, 2009	The Big Picture by Paul Hasegawa-Overacker Shepard Fairey crafts a contemporary icon.

Jan. 20, 2009	Truly Tasteless Art by Jerry Saltz Nathalie Djurberg goes "full retard."

Jan. 20, 2009	A Particular Kind of American by Jerry Saltz Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009.

Jan. 14, 2009	THE SPROUSE HOUSE by Charlie Finch Thumbs down on the Stephen Sprouse revival.

Jan. 13, 2009	RENAISSANCE LOVE by Michèle C. Cone "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jan. 12, 2009	SURVIVAL STRATEGIES by Charlie Finch A proposal for a new, more sane and generous art market.

Jan. 12, 2009	MoMA’s Sex Change by Jerry Saltz Pipilotti Rist gives a masculinist MoMA a redeeming shot of estrogen.

Jan. 7, 2009	QUO VADIS? by Lavinia Filippi Lawrence Weiner in Rome.

Jan. 6, 2009	ARTISTS AS OPTIMISTS by Charlie Finch Never mind the bollocks, artists stay busy.

Jan. 6, 2009	RICCIO AT THE FRICK by N.F. Karlins "Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze" at the Frick Collection.

Jan. 2, 2009	2009 CRYSTAL BALL by Charlie Finch Predictions for the coming year.

December

Dec. 29, 2008	WOULD DUKE APPROVE? by Charlie Finch On Robert Graham (1938-2008), and Duke Ellington.

Dec. 22, 2008	GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charlie Finch Momentary encounters with the famous and renowned.

Dec. 19, 2008	An Afternoon at the Met by Christopher Sweet Visiting Rudy Burckhardt’s New York, N. Why?

Dec. 17, 2008	REMEMBERING WILLOUGHBY by Charlie Finch Willoughby Sharp, 1936-2008.

Dec. 17, 2008	LUST OR LIFE by Charlie Finch Kiki Seror’s motifs of carnality.

Dec. 15, 2008	TOP TEN 2008 by Jerry Saltz The best art shows of 2008.

Dec. 12, 2008	PALE FIRE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp New sculptures by Rachel Whiteread and George Stoll.

Dec. 11, 2008	DUBIOUS DUMAS by Charlie Finch Marlene Dumas’ painting is lugubrious and lazy.

Dec. 10, 2008	ASK MARK KOSTABI by Mark Kostabi Advice for artists in an economic downturn.

Dec. 8, 2008	SPANISH ABSTRACTION by Donald Kuspit Elie Halioua’s abstract paintings reach for the "incommunicado core of the self."

Dec. 8, 2008	GIVE PEACE A CHANCE by Charlie Finch Lisa Ruyter’s "Atoms for Peace" in Vienna

Dec. 4, 2008	The Good, The Bad, and The Greedy by Richard Polsky Looking at the art-market slump of the early 1990s for lessons for today..

Dec. 3, 2008	ROBERTA ON YOUTUBE by Charlie Finch The celebrated New York Times art critic tells all.

Dec. 2, 2008	SHERMAN’S MARCH OF TIME by Jerry Saltz Cindy Sherman, the original chameleon of contemporary art, shows her characters aging -- and is reborn.

Dec. 1, 2008	THE PERSONAL IS NOT POLITICAL by Charlie Finch Kate Winslet makes the Holocaust palatable in Stephen.

November

Nov. 26, 2008	GEORGES NÖEL TODAY by Walter Robinson Rediscovering the veteran French painter Georges Nöel.

Nov. 24, 2008	THE SOFT PARADE by Charlie Finch Common sense for hard times.

Nov. 24, 2008	ZEN ABSTRACTION by Donald Kuspit In Philadelphia, new sculptures, and sets for Fidelio, by Jun Kaneko.

Nov. 20, 2008	FEET DON’T FAIL ME NOW by Charlie Finch Pipilotti Rist’s "Pour Your Body Out" at MoMA.

Nov. 19, 2008	DRUNKEN MASTER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp German artist Martin Kippenberger made mockery his method.

Nov. 18, 2008	A SILVER LINING by Charlie Finch All-female sales could cure a down market.

Nov. 17, 2008	Night at the Museum by Jerry Saltz No sex at the Guggenhiem Museum.

Nov. 12, 2008	LIGHTER THAN EROS by Charlie Finch "Eros" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.

Nov. 10, 2008	World in a Bottle by Jerry Saltz Giorgio Morandi and the pleasures of being minor.

Nov. 10, 2008	I AM A BERLINER! by Charlie Finch Brigid Berlin, the last of the superstars.

Nov. 6, 2008	THE FATE OF THE $5 POLLOCK by Thomas Hoving ARTnews traces a tortuous tale of Pollock paintings and possibly pilfered fingerprints.

Nov. 5, 2008	WHITE ON WHITE by Charlie Finch Barack Obama rebukes William Eggleston.

Nov. 4, 2008	SHAKEOUT TIME by Richard Polsky Advice for art collectors in a volatile market.

Nov. 3, 2008	FRIEZE AFTER THE FREEZE by Jerry Saltz At London’s big art fair, signs of financial trouble -- but maybe that’s okay.

October

Oct. 31, 2008	THE GRAND ACQUISITOR by Thomas Hoving "The Philippe de Montebello Years" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Oct. 30, 2008	FAME-FUCKING AND OTHER FRIVOLITIES by Donald Kuspit The temptations of Elizabeth Peyton’s idealized celebrities.

Oct. 29, 2008	MIRÓ, MIRÓ ON THE WALL by Charlie Finch A hyperactive hodgepodge at MoMA reveals an anachronistic painter’s painter.

Oct. 23, 2008	BLACK LIGHT DISTRICT by Charlie Finch Sensuous and reflective craft in "Japanese Postwar Photography"

Oct. 22, 2008	CERAMIC HISTORY by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Ken Price talks about his long escape from "art craft hell."

Oct. 21, 2008	A MIRACLE FOR MUSEUMS by Thomas Hoving The Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program now has a $5-billion domestic component.

Oct. 20, 2008	DARK VICTORY by Jerry Saltz Vincent Van Gogh’s outrageous vulnerability.

Oct. 16, 2008	KING TUT IS BACK! by Thomas Hoving "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" opens at the De Young Museum in 2009.

Oct. 15, 2008	ANIMALISM by Charlie Finch Alexander Calder is for kids.

Oct. 14, 2008	WELCOME TO THE ’60S, YET AGAIN by Jerry Saltz Martha Rosler can’t move beyond the easy arguments of her youth.

Oct. 10, 2008	DIABOLICAL SCIENCE by Simon Todd The Goth science of British artist Paul Fryer.

Oct. 9, 2008	NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy New works by Cecily Brown and Vik Muniz.

Oct. 3, 2008	RENAISSANCE GOOFBALL by Charlie Finch On the road with Elliott Arkin and "Mr. Artsee"

Oct. 2, 2008	"SMASHING" BLACK CYLINDERS by Thomas Hoving Dale Chihuly’s magical "Black Cylinders."

Sept. 29, 2008	LOOKING OUT FOR NO. 2 by Jerry Saltz The good, the bad and the terrible of the new Chelsea art season.

Sept. 26, 2008	RAZZLE WITHOUT DAZZLE by Charlie Finch New beaded masterpieces from Liza Lou.

Sept. 23, 2008	LET’S GET SERIOUS FOR A MOMENT by Jerry Saltz Is the apocalyptic art of "After Nature" a sign of newfound earnestness?

Sept. 18, 2008	MUSEUM DATE by Jerry Saltz A colloquy with architecture critic Justin Davidson on the new Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.

Sept. 18, 2008	AN ALIEN VISION by Charlie Finch "Van Gogh and the Colors of Night" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sept. 17, 2008	A GLORY AT THE CURRIER MUSEUM by Thomas Hoving Curator Kurt Sundstrom discovers an overlooked masterpiece by Florentine sculptor Antonio Rossellino.

Sept. 17, 2008	SOPHIE AND ALAIN by Charlie Finch French Pop artist Alain Jacquet dies in New York at age 69.

Sept. 16, 2008	SEX, DEATH, DINNER by Jerry Saltz An art critic gets ravished by a legendary Spanish chef.

Sept. 15, 2008	KRASNER’S "LITTLE IMAGE" PAINTINGS by Robert G. Edelman Lee Krasner’s breakout abstractions from 1946-50.

Sept. 12, 2008	COMFORT AND JOY by Charlie Finch New paintings by Damian Loeb and Isca Greenfield-Sanders.

Sept. 11, 2008	THE TRIUMPH OF SHIT by Donald Kuspit Andres Serrano, Paul McCarthy and the avant-garde artist as an anal masturbator.

Sept. 11, 2008	TSUNAMI TIME by Charlie Finch A retreat to curatorial sensibility in the museum world.

Sept. 10, 2008	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Braving Hurricane Hanna for the sake of avant-garde art.

Sept. 8, 2008	MY DINNER WITH KISSINGER by Charlie Finch The still-vibrant psyche of 85-year-old Henry Kissinger.

Sept. 2, 2008	A FIRMAMENT OF STARSby Charlie Finch Gearing up for the new fall art season.

Sept. 2, 2008	THE ROAD TO TAL AFAR by Steve Mumford Working with the Iraqi army in Mosul.

August

Aug. 27, 2008	A DEALER LOOKS BACK by Richard Polsky Changes in the art world over the last 30 years.

Aug. 26, 2008	DOWNEAST ROUNDUP by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Summer art in Maine, 2008.

Aug. 25, 2008	THINGS FALL APART by Charlie Finch David Kramer’s new book-cum-artwork, Snake Oil.

Aug. 20, 2008	ANGELS ON THE GROUND by Charlie Finch The film Beautiful Losers chronicles Alleged Gallery and the 1990s “Street Art” movement.

Aug. 19, 2008	REPLY TO THE OLYMPICS CONTROVERSY by Cai Guo-Qiang The Chinese art star responds to reports of digital trickery during the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.

Aug. 18, 2008	A BILLET DOUX FOR THE MET by Thomas Hoving What the mighty Metropolitan Museum of Art ought to do next.

Aug. 12, 2008	THE EMPERORS OF ART by Charlie Finch Hypermaterialism from Fifth Avenue to Dubai to Beijing.

Aug. 8, 2008	THE MURDER OF DAMIEN HIRST (as told to Charlie Finch) by Charlie Finch The perfect work of art.

Aug. 5, 2008	CLOSE ENCOUNTERS by Ilka Scobie Chuck Close talks about the young artists he admires and his new tapestry work.

July

July 30, 2008	A KISS FOR KIRCHNER by Charlie Finch "Kirchner and the Berlin Street" at the Museum of Modern Art.

July 25, 2008	BERKSHIRE IDLER by Charlie Finch The state of the arts at Belvoir Terrace Camp in Lenox, Mass.

July 24, 2008	EVERYTHING PLUS THE KITCHEN SINK by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy "Jess 1923-2004" and two group shows put the spotlight on collage.

July 23, 2008	A SIGG JOKE by Charlie Finch More thoughts on the case against the Olympics in China.

July 22, 2008	NOT JUST HOT AIR by Jerry Saltz Jeff Koons, better than you think.

July 21, 2008	BITING AND BRUISED by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The painting of Marlene Dumas.

July 17, 2008	J.M.W. TURNER, ONE OF A KIND, ONCE AND FOREVER by Thomas Hoving Turner transformed grim and jejune reality into compelling fantasies of color, light and atmosphere.

July 14, 2008	Dia’s Last Chance by Jerry Saltz Does Philippe Vergne have what it takes to keep Dia from being DOA?

July 11, 2008	PAIN IS THE NAME OF THE GAME by Charlie Finch Painter Chuck Connelly in HBO’s new The Art of Failure.

July 9, 2008	TREASURES OF HAJJI BABA by N.F. Karlins "Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors" at the New-York Historical Society.

July 9, 2008	WATER FALLACIES by Charlie Finch Public art and the public good.

July 8, 2008	UBIQUITOUS ART by Charlie Finch The idea of art is everywhere these days.

July 7, 2008	Take Me to the River by Jerry Saltz Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls come on with a wink, not a whoosh.

July 2, 2008	THE DELLA ROBBIA DEBACLE by Paul Jeromack A glazed terracotta by Andrea della Robbia falls off the wall at the Metropolitan Museum.

July 2, 2008	AN IDLER’S DIARY by Charlie Finch Julian Laverdiere, Doug Blau, Sherry Wong, Catherine Murphy, more.

June

June 30, 2008	BURIED TREASURES by Thomas Hoving Two spectacular treasures on loan to the Met.

June 27, 2008	OIL PAINTING by Charlie Finch Abstract Expressionism in the sheikdom.

June 25, 2008	CHAOS THEORY by Charlie Finch Buckminster Fuller, Paul McCarthy, and Salvador Dali’s "Painting and Film"

June 25, 2008	COWBOYS IN ROME by Lavinia Filippi Richard Prince opens at Gagosian Gallery in Rome.

June 23, 2008	MUGGY UGLY by Charlie Finch A new Dennis Oppenheim art project in Union Square Park definitely does not improve the summer weather.

June 23, 2008	Two Coats of Painting by Jerry Saltz Tony Shafrazi, the man who tagged Guernica, tries another way of superimposing new art and old.

June 17, 2008	ANGELS AND ALLIGATORS by Mary Barone An interview with the New York artist Rachel Feinstein.

June 19, 2008	GUNS AND COLLAGES by Carlo McCormick New works from country conceptualist Mike Osterhout.

June 17, 2008	TALKING PICTURES by N.F. Karlins "Glossolalia" at the Museum of Modern Art.

June 13, 2008	MASTERPIECES BY THE MINORS by Paul Jeromack With its recent purchase of a seascape by Abraham de Verwer, the National Gallery of Art makes a smart collecting move.

June 13, 2008	AN IDLER’S DIARY by Charlie Finch Wandering around SoHo and Chelsea at the beginning of summer.

June 12, 2008	BLUE-COLLAR HEAVEN by Kevin Nance A mythic vision of Chicago in Tony Fitzpatrick’s "Portraits of a Remembered City"

June 10, 2008	LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN by Charlie Finch Chris Burden’s What My Dad Gave Me (2008) at Rockefeller Center.

June 9, 2008	AMERICAN OPTIMIST by Kevin Nance Jeff Koons is the Energizer Bunny of contemporary art.

June 9, 2008	STATUARY STORY by Jerry Saltz David Altmejd’s otherworldly figures create narrative just by standing still.

June 6, 2008	SINISTER SKIES by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Roger Brown’s dialogue with disaster.

June 3, 2008	THE BASEL OF THE FUTURE by Stefan Kobel An interview with Art Basel co-director Marc Spiegler.

June 2, 2008	The Art World’s Space Invader by Jerry Saltz Does a Warhol look different when it’s hanging above someone’s TV set? Ask Louise Lawler.

May

May 29, 2008	AN ART MUTUAL FUND by Richard Polsky The Los Angeles dealer and author of I Bought Andy Warhol sets up his own "art mutual fund."

May 28, 2008	AMERICAN INVENTOR by Jerry Saltz Remembering Rauschenberg.

May 28, 2008	GOODBYE JOHN by Charlie Finch John Weber, 1932-2008.

May 23, 2008	LIGHT INDUSTRY by Charlie Finch Whimsy and dignity in photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

May 21, 2008	COP ROCK by Steve Mumford At combat outpost Rock in Mosul.

May 21, 2008	THE HOLISTIC DIRECTOR by Phyllis Tuchman An interview with LACMA head Michael Govan.

May 20, 2008	THE EYES HAVE IT by Charlie Finch Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.

May 20, 2008	DEATH AND THE ARTIST by Michèle C. Cone Issues of freedom and fame in the work of the Fluxus artist Yoko Ono.

May 19, 2008	ELIZABETH II by Jerry Saltz Elizabeth Peyton returns to life.

May 14, 2008	RAUSCHENBERG/WARHOL by Charlie Finch RIP Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008.

May 13, 2008	THE ADVANCE OF BEAUTY by Donald Kuspit Thomas Chimes and Lynda Benglis at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia.

May 12, 2008	MISSION ABORTED by Charlie Finch The nuances of Yale’s Aliza Shvarts controversy.

May 8, 2008	DIAMOND IN THE DESERT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Neutra’s modernist Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes up for auction.

May 7, 2008	BACK AND FORTH by Charlie Finch John Baldessari and Matt Mullican collaborate on "Pong" at Tracy Williams, Ltd.

May 5, 2008	AMONG THE KURDS by Steve Mumford The war in Mosul is one of bombs.

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.

July 25, 2007	WELCOME TO QUADRICEPTICA II by Lisa-Evelyn Radish Promise and perplexity at the second edition of the quadrennial Rjamuszian exhibition.

July 24, 2007	CURATORIAL KARAOKE by Bazon Brock Random pathos at Documenta 12.

July 23, 2007	THEREMY by Charlie Finch Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

July 19, 2007	A WORLD WITHOUT WARHOLS by Charlie Finch With Andy, the "authenticity" issue is absurd.

July 18, 2007	HYPING SERRA by Donald Kuspit Is Richard Serra’s sculpture the Titanic of avant-garde abstraction?

July 17, 2007	THE ALCHEMY OF CURATING by Jerry Saltz Examining the 52nd Venice Biennale, Documenta XII and Sculpture Projects Münster.

July 12, 2007	ORWELL ON DALÍ by Charlie Finch Is artistic freedom morally neutral?

July 7, 2007	FORM THING by Charlie Finch The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center.

July 2, 2007	BIENNIAL CULTURE by Jerry Saltz Biennials are boring and bloated -- there must be a better way.

June

June 29, 2007	BIENNALE WITHOUT BARRIERS by Lavinia Filippi An interview with Robert Storr, director of the international exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

June 27, 2007	STINGELESE by Charlie Finch Rudolf Stingel’s graffiti art at the Whitney Museum.

June 26, 2007	THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY? by Donald Kuspit Neo-Rauch’s dialectical fables.

June 25, 2007	WHAT ART SAYS ABOUT MONEY by Charlie Finch The love call of currency.

June 21, 2007	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen In search of a little magic in summertime New York.

June 20, 2007	DOWNTOWN SALON by Ilka Scobie A conversation with Deitch Projects director Nicola Vassell.

June 19, 2007	BUONA SERA by Jerry Saltz Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art. Plus five good public sculptures in New York City.

June 18, 2007	SIMPLE THINGS by Charlie Finch Seeking small moments of mildly enlightened distinction.

June 13, 2007	DAMIEN HIRST JUMPS THE SHARK by Charlie Finch The YBA star flogs a $100-million diamond skull.

June 12, 2007	BELIEVE IT by Joe La Placa Hirst on the market, museums, his heroes and For the Love of God.

June 11, 2007	ART DEALER’S DIARY by Kenny Schachter The pleasures and pitfalls of design art at Design Miami/Basel.

June 11, 2007	Summer Bummer by Jerry Saltz The Whitney Museum’s bad trip back to the ‘60s.

June 5, 2007	ARTNET DESIGN by Brook S. Mason Prouve’s Maison Tropicale sold, a "pot dealer" in New York, International Ceramics Fair, more.

June 5, 2007	EVERYBODY LOVES CLAUDE by Phyllis Tuchman The crowds still line up for Claude Monet at Wildenstein.

June 4, 2007	Deal or No Deal by Jerry Saltz Takashi Murakami’s show is nakedly commercial; "Underdog" strikes an opposite pose, to much the same effect.

June 4, 2007	JERSEY TRANSIT by Charlie Finch If you ride Jersey Transit, you don’t need Richard Serra.

May

May 30, 2007	PHILLIPS HEAD by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Phillips’ postmodern vanitas paintings feature nude women and Nazis.

May 24, 2007	I’VE GOT THEM OL’ COSMIC FILLMORE EAST BLUES AGAIN by Charlie Finch On the occasion of "Summer of Love" at the Whitney Museum.

May 22, 2007	KING OF FASHION by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Modernist fashion icon Paul Poiret at the Metropolitan Museum.

May 21, 2007	IT’S BORING AT THE TOP by Jerry Saltz Is Andreas Gursky -- the highest-priced photographer alive -- running out of ideas?

May 21, 2007	ART HOUSE by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp ArchitectureForSale.com pioneers a new market in houses by top architects.

May 17, 2007	LANDSCAPES OF LONGING by N.F. Karlins John Constable’s "Maria Bicknell Years" at Salander-O’Reilly.

May 17, 2007	REMEMBERING JONATHAN by Charlie Finch A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.

May 15, 2007	Same River Twice by Jerry Saltz Rirkrit Tiravanija makes dinner for gallerygoers. Plus, Gordon Matta-Clark.

May 9, 2007	COLETTE IN TRANSIT by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy The celebrated performance artist presents the satin-swathed boudoir from her Maison Lumière.

May 8, 2007	DIAMOND IN THE DESERT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Neutra’s modernist Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes up for auction.

May 8, 2007	WITH GOOD COMPANY, INTO IRAQ by Steve Mumford Bloggers and journalists head for Baghdad to cover the war.

May 5, 2007	WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DAVID ROCKEFELLER? by Charlie Finch Mark Rothko’s White Center (1950) hits the auction block.

May 5, 2007	THE AURA OF TIMELESSNESS by Donald Kuspit Desert images by Mel Pekarsky and Berber portrait photographs by Lazhar Mansouri.

May 4, 2007	MURAKAMI AND THE MURPHYS by Charlie Finch Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.

May 3, 2007	FEMALE TROUBLES by Michèle C. Cone "Global Feminisms" is a Tsunami-sized wave of distress signals.

April

Apr. 30, 2007	NOT BUYING IT by Jerry Saltz If "Not for Sale" tells us anything, it’s that P.S.1 needs to make some changes.

Apr. 27, 2007	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen In search of interesting art in Chelsea.

Apr. 26, 2007	PRINCE FEIGEN by Charlie Finch The quattrocento meets Ab Ex in "Sublime Convergence" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.

Apr. 24, 2007	PRIMAVERA by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Robert Kushner’s new paintings evoke renewed growth and fleeting beauty.

Apr. 23, 2007	GET ME A BRUSH, STAT! by Jerry Saltz "High Times, Hard Times" at the National Academy Museum. Plus, Matthew Barney in a new performance.

Apr. 18, 2007	BITS AND PIECES by Charlie Finch Rummaging through old Manhattan with photographer Kevin Landers.

Apr. 10, 2007	WRITTEN ON THE WALL AND IN THE WIND by Jerry Saltz Minimalist artist Sol LeWitt dies at age 78.

Apr. 9, 2007	CHARNEL KNOWLEDGE by Jerry Saltz Carroll Dunham’s wounded beasts get medieval on their own asses. Plus, Karel Funk.

Apr. 9, 2007	PECULIAR PEARLS by Charlie Finch Dead calm in Philip Pearlstein’s paintings.

Apr. 4, 2007	WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU SEE by Charlie Finch "Blue Cage Sculptures" by Rebecca Smith.

Apr. 2, 2007	BOOM IN BLOOM? by Richard Polsky Will the boom continue or is it likely to fall?

March

Mar. 29, 2007	THE PAINTERLY FIGURE by Donald Kuspit Jörg Immendorff, Odd Nerdrum and Nora Speyer engage a truly human esthetic.

Mar. 28, 2007	DAVID LACHAPELLE by Mary Barone The celebrated glamour photographer and filmmaker talks with Mary Barone.

Mar. 27, 2007	RADICAL ETHIOPIA by Charlie Finch The African Christ in Ethiopian art.

Mar. 26, 2007	NO MAN’S LAND by Jerry Saltz Rachel Harrison ambivalently memorializes sculpture -- and men. Plus, Cary Liebowitz.

Mar. 23, 2007	PUSSY POWER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Mar. 23, 2007	PUSSY POWER by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Mar. 22, 2007	SPECIAL OPS by Charlie Finch Reticent retinal art, and more, on Madison Avenue.

Mar. 22, 2007	PLEASURE GARDENS by Fred Stern An homage to the gardens of the East at the Sackler Gallery.

Mar. 21, 2007	Where is Critical Art Ensemble? The Artnet Questionnaire.

Mar. 21, 2007	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Tossing dollars at Mark Kostabi’s "Paint That Naming."

Mar. 20, 2007	SPIRITS IN THE WOOD by N.F. Karlins Art and artifacts made of wood and tree bark by Woodland Indians and Australian Aborigines.

Mar. 19, 2007	YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE by Jerry Saltz Art market darling Terence Koh dances with skeletons and brightens the Whitney lobby. Plus, Christian Jankowski.

Mar. 15, 2007	SPRING OASIS by Charlie Finch The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden.

Mar. 12, 2007	FUR WHAT IT’S WORTH by Jerry Saltz Roaming beyond the art world grid with David and Chie Hammons. Plus, Sarah Anne Johnson.

Mar. 12, 2007	WHITE WALLS, GLASS CEILING by Ben Davis Why are there so many great women artists -- who can’t get a show?

Mar. 7, 2007	STUBBED by Charlie Finch George Stubbs is as much an ironist as an avatar of the sublime.

Mar. 7, 2007	HORSES AND HISTORY by N.F. Karlins George Stubbs at the Frick, and "European Master Drawings" at the Morgan.

Mar. 6, 2007	ART VALUES OR MONEY VALUES? by Donald Kuspit An analysis of the art market boom.

Mar. 5, 2007	CINDERELLA by Charlie Finch Loving Cindy Sherman as she swans into middle age.

February

Feb. 27, 2007	CRITIQUEUS INTERRUPTUS by Jerry Saltz Andrea Fraser replaces sensationalism with adoration. Plus, Eve Sussman’s Rape of the Sabine Women.

Feb. 26, 2007	TOSSING IN THE FOUNTAIN by Paul H-O A visit to the Armory Show 2007, and Fountain New York.

Feb. 26, 2007	DISAPPEARING ACTS by Charlie Finch What’s new in Artland.

Feb. 21, 2007	AN ALLEGORY OF SUBLIMATION by Michéle C. Cone Self-revelation through painting in the art of Jasper Johns.

Feb. 21, 2007	LOVE IN THE RUINS by Charlie Finch Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum.

Feb. 20, 2007	BROKEN ANGEL by Jerry Saltz A new exhibition rescues artist Martín Ramirez from his "Outsider" status. Plus, "Positively 27th Street."

Feb. 12, 2007	AN ALLEGORY OF SUBLIMATION by Michéle C. Cone Self-revelation through painting in the art of Jasper Johns.

Feb. 12, 2007	DILL VERSUS PRINCE by Charlie Finch Lesley Dill and Richard Prince at the Neuberger Museum.

Feb. 12, 2007	THE BIGGEST PICTURE by Jerry Saltz "Cosmologies" takes a trip through grand visions and imaginary universes. And "Beyond the Pale" at Moti Hasson Gallery.

Feb. 9, 2007	THE GILDED CAGE by Charlie Finch Imagining the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Feb. 7, 2007	SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH MCDREAMY by Phyllis Tuchman Seattle’s stunning new Olympia Sculpture Park.

Feb. 5, 2007	THE PROBLEM OF THE MUSE by Charlie Finch A figure one wants so to behold but never to be.

January

Jan. 29, 2007	SEEING DOLLAR SIGNS by Jerry Saltz Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?

Jan. 26, 2007	A NEW MARKET THEORY OF ART by Charlie Finch Is everyone making money, or is the money making them?

Jan. 26, 2007	GREER LANKTON, A MEMOIR by Julia Morton Remembering East Village artist Greer Lankton on the 10th anniversary of her death.

Jan. 22, 2007	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.

Jan. 18, 2007	HANGING AT THE HOUSE SALE by Reverend Jen Christie’s monthly House Sales are better than Craig’s List!

Jan. 17, 2007	WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NO CONTEXT by Charlie Finch Doug Aitken turns MoMA into an outdoor Cineplex.

Jan. 16, 2007	LOOKING BACK. . . SOMETIMES IN ANGER by Jerry Saltz Power, professionalism and perversity in the art world in 2006. Plus, Jackie Saccoccio.

Jan. 10, 2007	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?

Jan. 10, 2007	TWO THIEVES by Charlie Finch The bohemian and the ubercollector.

Jan. 5, 2007	SEXUAL MORES by Michéle C. Cone William Hogarth and the plight of women, both rich and poor.

Jan. 2, 2007	SNAKES IN A BOX by Jerry Saltz Brice Marden has breathtaking ways of making things.

Jan. 2, 2007	THE WAY WE WERE by Charlie Finch Remembering art as a part of life.

December

Dec. 22, 2006	NEW ORLEANS ODYSSEY by N.F. Karlins "Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum" at Wildenstein & Company.

Dec. 19, 2006	SEASON OF PASSION by Kay Itoi An interview with Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura about his new work.

Dec. 18, 2006	CURRIN EVENTS by Jerry Saltz John Currin’s money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism and the inner life of paintings. Plus, Gregory Crewdson.

Dec. 14, 2006	THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith, plus contemporary art, at the new Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan.

Dec. 13, 2006	PROVOCATIVE REALISM by Donald Kuspit New Objectivist portraiture in "Glitter and Doom" at the Metropolitan Museum.

Dec. 6, 2006	EVERYTHING FITS by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp John Baldessari installs "Magritte and Contemporary Art" at LACMA.

Dec. 6, 2006	TANIGUCHI’S REVENGE by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.

Dec. 5, 2006	RAKE’S PROGRESS by Lewis Kachur "Beyond the White Cube: A Retrospective of Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland."

Dec. 4, 2006	SPACE ODYSSEYS by Jerry Saltz Imagining the future for two great institutions: Dia and the New Museum. Plus, Marilyn Minter.

November

Nov. 28, 2006	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.

Nov. 28, 2006	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT DIA BEACON by Charlie Finch Minimalism lives in a converted factory in a Hudson River mill town.

Nov. 22, 2006	EDWARD HOPPER: CUBIST IN DISGUISE? by Donald Kuspit Geometry is eternal, people are transient.

Nov. 20, 2006	THE CARNIVAL STOPS FOR A GRAY DAY by Charlie Finch On Agnes Martin and Kiki Smith.

Nov. 20, 2006	FEMALE TROUBLE by Jerry Saltz A plea for Lisa Yuskavage to return to her dirty-secret past. Plus, the Lower East Side at Orchard.

Nov. 17, 2006	A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR THE ART WORLD by Ben Davis The solution to everything.

Nov. 14, 2006	CHINESE TREASURES by N.F. Karlins The art of the Liao at the Asia Society.

Nov. 14, 2006	SEDUCED AND ABANDONED by Charlie Finch Who says New York needs a museum of contemporary art?

Nov. 10, 2006	DOT DELIRIUM by Donald Kuspit Jennifer Bartlett’s early plate works.

Nov. 7, 2006	BERLIN STREET FIGHT by Anna Blume Huttenlauch The restitution of Kirchner’s Berlin Street Scene (1913) roils the German art world.

Nov. 7, 2006	BIEDERMEIER IN MILWAUKEE by Fred Stern The Milwaukee Art Museum mounts the first all-Biedermeier show in the U.S.

Nov. 6, 2006	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.

Nov. 6, 2006	PAINTING THE TAPE by Charlie Finch Hedge funds and the art market.

Nov. 3, 2006	THE NEW YORK LIST A selection of things that looked good, made news or otherwise caught our eye this week.

Nov. 2, 2006	PASSION AND PHOTOGRAPHY by N.F. Karlins The romantic and artistic partnership of Tina Modotti and Edward Weston.

October

Oct. 30, 2006	THE PARALLAX VIEW by Jerry Saltz Mark Grotjahn undoes the insanity of a single perspective. Plus, Cimabue at the Frick.

Oct. 27, 2006	WHAT BECOMES A LEGEND LEAST by Charlie Finch Brice Marden at MoMA.

Oct. 26, 2006	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Lower East Side performance art meets The Price Is Right.

Oct. 26, 2006	BOTERO’S HUMANISM by Donald Kuspit Fernando Botero’s paintings of Abu Ghraib.

Oct. 25, 2006	IN MEMORIAM: KAREL APPEL by Carlo McCormick Remembering the celebrated Dutch expressionist.

Oct. 23, 2006	THE LOST SCULPTURE PROCESS by Phyllis Tuchman A 20th-anniversary appreciation of the sculpture garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Oct. 23, 2006	THE UNDEAD OF ART HISTORY by Jerry Saltz Dasha Shishkin’s melancholic world. Plus, emerging artists at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Oct. 19, 2006	MISSION CREEP by Charlie Finch The new catchword for museoexecs.

Oct. 18, 2006	THE NEW ART ARISTOCRATS by Elliott Arkin An interview with megacollector Adam Lindemann, author of Collecting Contemporary.

Oct. 18, 2006	TIME LANDSCAPES by Walter Robinson New cityscapes by Paul Caranicas capture the spirit of a contemporary utopia.

Oct. 13, 2006	LUCAS THE LOVABLE by Donald Kuspit Avant-garde narcissism in new works by Lucas Samaras.

Oct. 12, 2006	ONE GOOD PRINT by Charlie Finch Prints and editions from Europe at MoMA.

Oct. 10, 2006	THE ART WORLD JUNGLE by Jerry Saltz The Chelsea art district, David Zwirner and the new fall season. Plus, a visit to Spiral Jetty.

Oct. 5, 2006	SACRED SADNESS by Donald Kuspit Sean Scully’s Romantic geometry.

Oct. 2, 2006	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.

September

Sept. 29, 2006	PICASSO THE CONSERVATIVE by Charlie Finch At the Whitney Museum, how Cubism retarded American Art.

Sept. 25, 2006	TAKE SOME OFF THE TABLE by Richard Polsky A review of the overheated contemporary art market, September 2006.

Sept. 19, 2006	THE FAILURE OF DE MONTEBELLO by Charlie Finch Taking apart the Met chief’s latest pronouncements.

Sept. 18, 2006	THE TEMPEST by Jerry Saltz ackson Pollock’s acts of esthetic desperation. Plus, Stuart Hawkins.

Sept. 11, 2006	POOLS OF WONDER by Charlie Finch Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.

Sept. 8, 2006	THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX by Jerry Saltz Can art change the world? A holistic theory.

Sept. 6, 2006	ORCHARD UNDERGROUND by Mary Rinebold Miguel Abreu makes an art space on the Lower East Side.

Sept. 5, 2006	PLAYING IT STRAIGHT by Jerry Saltz Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern. Plus, the fall season begins.

August

Aug. 31, 2006	BERLIN RISING by Anna Altman Cutting-edge art and the Berlin cityscape.

Aug. 29, 2006	CRITIC AGONISTES by Charlie Finch Skunks and art critics.

Aug. 28, 2006	DIARY OF AN ART STAR by Reverend Jen Making an art video starring Moby and Reverend Jen Junior, a chihuahua.

Aug. 25, 2006	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.

Aug. 23, 2006	CHARISMA CATCHER by Heimir Björgúlfsson In memory of Jason Rhoades and his Black Pussy cabaret.

Aug. 21, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 10, Part 1: The decadence of advanced art and the return of tradition and beauty.

Aug. 16, 2006	GIRODET’S SENSATIONALISM by Donald Kuspit Charismatic rebel or kitsch romantic? Populism, eroticism and revolution in David’s greatest student.

Aug. 14, 2006	THE COSMIC MAYA by N.F. Karlins At the Met, art and rituals of the Mayan kings.

Aug. 9, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 9: The search for authenticity and the rebellion against Conceptual pseudo-art.

Aug. 7, 2006	A QUIRKY COLLECTOR by Charlie Finch Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.

Aug. 1, 2006	FEET OF CLAY by Charlie Finch Since when does money create masterpieces?

July

July 31, 2006	REMEMBERING ARNO BREKER by Michèle C. Cone My visit with Hitler’s favorite sculptor.

July 28, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 8: Postmodernity from Polke and Judy Chicago to German Neo-Expressionism.

July 26, 2006	ART DEALER’S DIARY by Kenny Schachter Forget the art fairs, give me the British International Motor Show.

July 24, 2006	NEW YORK ON THE RIVIERA by David D’Arcy "New York, New York" at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

July 21, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 7, Parts 4 & 5: The tragic beauty of Robert Smithson, Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse.

July 20, 2006	SUMMIT ST. PETERSBURG by Kate Sutton Exhibitions at the Russian city’s museums during the G8 Summit.

July 17, 2006	A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Phyllis Tuchman Frank Stella’s breakthrough year.

July 14, 2006	BABES IN LOYLAND by Charlie Finch German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.

July 14, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 7, Parts 1, 2 & 3: Minimal and Pop art and the atrophy of the avant-garde.

July 10, 2006	GRACE, DEPRAVITY AND GRANDEUR by Jerry Saltz The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece and Cecil B. DeMille, in the paintings of Veronese.

July 7, 2006	PORTRAIT AMERICA by N.F. Karlins The Smithsonian reopens its American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

July 7, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 6: The dialectic of myth and abstraction in Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Art Informel.

July 5, 2006	THE SUBLIME IS US by Jerry Saltz In new work by Klara Liden, the unfathomable feelings of being alive. Plus, Justin Lowe.

June

June 29, 2006	BOMB-A-RAMA by Paul Jeromack A look back at the auction fiasco of 2006.

June 28, 2006	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT THE WHIT by Charlie Finch All the masterpieces at the Whitney’s "Full House."

June 27, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 5: From Abstract Expressionism to Expressionistic Symbolism, via Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning

June 22, 2006	CASH, CLOWNS, AND CARNIVAL by Jerry Saltz Martin Eder and Cosima von Bonin, two German artists in Chelsea. Plus, Halsey Rodman.

June 19, 2006	The Great Picabia by Charlie Finch Francis Picabia is the star of "Dada" at MoMA.

June 16, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 4, Part 4: Picasso, Braque, Léger, Matisse, de Chirico, Stanley Spencer and more.

June 12, 2006	RECONSTRUCTION ZONE by Jerry Saltz Ted Riederer’s quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable. Plus, Stephen Shore.

June 8, 2006	WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DOUGLAS GORDON? by Charlie Finch There once was a man from the Highlands. . .

June 7, 2006	BORDEL MAGNIFIQUE by Chris Sharp The French ministry of culture hazards "La Force de l’Art" at the Nef du Grand Palais.

June 2, 2006	SHE’S NOT THERE by Jerry Saltz Sharon Lockhart’s "Pine Flat" photographs, all subject matter and no content. Plus, Francis Cape.

June 1, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 4, Parts 2 & 3: Max Beckmann, Hannah Höch, John Heartfield and fantastic realism.

May

May 26, 2006	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.

May 24, 2006	EXCELLENCE HAS [NO] SEX by Michèle C. Cone Two new exhibitions give us an Eva Hesse for the 21st century.

May 17, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 4, Part 1: Classicism and conflict in Klee, Pollock and Picasso.

May 17, 2006	INVASION OF THE SCULPTURE SNATCHERS by Jerry Saltz Curators Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett hold Cady Noland for random at Triple Candie.

May 15, 2006	A BREAKTHROUGH SHOW by Charlie Finch Sherry Wong paints a 21st-century Big Chill.

May 10, 2006	FRESH AS TOMORROW: ALEX KATZ IN THE ‘60S by Donald Kuspit Alex Katz’s ‘60s paintings offer a new kind of social realism.

May 9, 2006	LEVIATHAN by Jerry Saltz Matthey Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9 touches on everything. Plus, Xavier Cha.

May 5, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 3, Part 3 -- from the peintres maudits and the Vienna Secession to the Bauhaus.

May 5, 2006	OLD FRIENDS by Charlie Finch Notes on Jocelyn Hobbie, Lisa Ruyter and Kerri Scharlin.

May 2, 2006	Sale Away by Jerry Saltz Couldn’t six Texas millionaires chip in and buy a group of Judds? Plus, Alex McQuilkin.

April

Apr. 26, 2006	GYPSY by Jerry Saltz Amy Sillman, a nervy painter who loves mid-century abstraction

Apr. 26, 2006	ARTE POVERA IN NEW ORLEANS by Charlie Finch Throw some support to the City That Care Forgot.

Apr. 25, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 3, Part 2 -- from the Exquisite Corpse to Giacometti.

Apr. 21, 2006	MiArt 2006 by Joe La Placa China is the guest country at Italy’s top contemporary art fair.

Apr. 19, 2006	MARFA ON MY MIND by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp A visit to Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation art museum in Marfa, Texas.

Apr. 18, 2006	COLLECTING CELEBRITY ART by Baird Jones Art by movie stars, athletes, musicians and other pop-culture idols.

Apr. 17, 2006	ART AMID THE RUBBLE by Carey Lovelace A report from the Ninth Havana Bienal.

Apr. 14, 2006	ART MARKET WATCH by Paul Jeromack Christie’s sells a Turner for $35.8 million.

Apr. 14, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 3, Part 1 -- automatism in Ernst, Breton and Surrealism.

Apr. 12, 2006	THE SEVENTH CIRCLE by Jerry Saltz Nan Goldin is giving us the moment before she will turn to ash. Plus, Paul Shambroom.

Apr. 5, 2006	SELF-PORTRAITS AND OLD MASTERS by Donald Kuspit Painter F. Scott Hess conveys the universal in the contingent.

Apr. 4, 2006	WORLD OF WOMEN by Charlie Finch "Bearings: The Female Figure" at PS122 Gallery in Manhattan.

Apr. 3, 2006	HEAPS AND CONSEQUENCES by Jerry Saltz Tara Donovan’s undulating, otherworldly river valley. Plus, Judith Linhares.

Apr. 3, 2006	MATERIAL SEDUCTION by Oriane Stender Tara Donovan talks theory and method.

March

Mar. 31, 2006	CHASING THE DRAGON by Oriane Stender Nan Goldin’s Sisters, Saints and Sibyls premieres in New York.

Mar. 27, 2006	OVERWHELMING LIFE by Ana Finel Honigman Alex McQuilkin tells why we should all stop worrying about her.

Mar. 28, 2006	QUEEN OF NIGHT by Jerry Saltz Kara Walker’s language of tattered words and shadow plays. Plus, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

Mar. 27, 2006	WHITNEY BIENNIAL V. EVERGLADES by Charlie Finch Where rules must be observed to stay alive.

Mar. 24, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 2, Part 4 -- Picabia, collage, Futurism, Orphism, Malevich and more.

Mar. 23, 2006	A LA SCHIFANO by Ilka Scobie A survey of the Italian Pop artist’s work opens in Milan.

Mar. 23, 2006	NO REWIND by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy The last rites of Nam June Paik.

Mar. 22, 2006	OLD MASTERS, NEW EDGE by Brook Mason Bigger, better, more important at TEFAF Maastricht 2006.

Mar. 21, 2006	BLOGGING THE ARMORY by Max Henry Day by day during art fair week in New York.

Mar. 17, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 2, Part 3 -- Marcel Duchamp’s invention of the readymade.

Mar. 16, 2006	LOOKING FOR ISLAM by P.C. Smith "Without Boundary" at the Museum of Modern Art surveys Islamic sensibilities in western art.

Mar. 15, 2006	THE QUIETER WILDER SHORES OF PAINTING by Jerry Saltz Light shifts, reality and hallucination vie for dominance in the paintings of William Nicholson.

Mar. 13, 2006	HARDCORE by Jerry Saltz Charline von Heyl’s painting is a snake pit of styles.

Mar. 10, 2006	STOP THE INSANITY! by Charlie Finch Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.

Mar. 10, 2006	ART, TALK AND POWERPOINT by Suzaan Boettger The College Art Association meets in Boston.

Mar. 6, 2006	THE RETURN OF ANTHONY JAMES by Charlie Finch New works go on view in Chelsea.

Mar. 6, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 2, part 2 -- spiritualism and nihilism: the second decade.

Mar. 2, 2006	BIENNIAL IN BABYLON by Jerry Saltz The "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night" is lively, brainy and self-conscious. Plus, Kelley Walker.

February

Feb. 28, 2006	WHO CAN FORGET ULTRA VIOLET? by Michèle C. Cone The life and work of an Andy Warhol superstar.

Feb. 27, 2006	IDOL THOUGHTS by Jerry Saltz The glory of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking "moneybags piss pot."

Feb. 27, 2006	NEW SPANISH ART TO BUY NOW by Walter Robinson A second go-round of the booths at ARCO 2006.

Feb. 23, 2006	What to Look for in the Whitney Biennial by Carlo McCormick An advance tour of the 2006 Whitney Biennial exhibition.

Feb. 21, 2006	TREE OF LIFE by N.F. Karlins Unraveling the symbols of the past at the Ukrainian Museum.

Feb. 17, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 2: Spiritualism And Nihilism: The Second Decade

Feb. 15, 2006	THE ROYAL HALF by Phyllis Tuchman The treasures of Hesse at the Portland Art Museum.

Feb. 14, 2006	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.

Feb. 9, 2006	THE SEDUCTION OF NATALIE FRANK by Charlie Finch Portrait of a fast rising star.

Feb. 8, 2006	THE NEW SCENESTERS by Pedro Velez A hardscrabble renaissance of art and music in Puerto Rico.

Feb. 3, 2006	A THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN by Jerry Saltz Andrea Zittel is Robinson Crusoe and Mad Max by way of Walden Pond, St. Augustine and Greenpeace. Plus, Nam June Paik, R.I.P.

Feb. 3, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 1, Part 4: New Forms For Old Feelings: The First Decade

Feb. 1, 2006	TRUE LOVE COMES TO VEGAS by Charlie Finch Wedding bells ring for our scribe and his bride.

January

Jan. 31, 2006	KILLING FIELDS by Jerry Saltz Thomas Hirschhorn, art and the unbearable image.

Jan. 30, 2006	CÉZANNE IN D.C. by Walter Robinson The National Gallery of Art premieres "Cézanne in Provence."

Jan. 27, 2006	One Step at a Time by Phyllis Tuchman Vincent van Gogh’s long, strange journey.

Jan. 25, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 1, part 3: New Forms For Old Feelings: The First Decade.

Jan. 25, 2006	MASTER DEALER by Lisa Zeitz A profile of collector, author and Old Master dealer Richard L. Feigen.

Jan. 24, 2006	WHITHER WILLIAMSBURG? by Stephen Maine An artists' neighborhood confronts the prospect of gentrification.

Jan. 20, 2006	ASK MARK KOSTABI by Mark Kostabi Stimulate thought and your art will be bought.

Jan. 20, 2006	PREDICTIONS FOR 2006 Peering into the art-world’s crystal ball.

Jan. 19, 2006	UNIVERSAL LEONARDO by Ana Finel Honigman Martin Kemp tells why Leonardo da Vinci is still fascinating but art writing isn’t.

Jan. 18, 2006	A VISIT WITH DEB AND PATTIE by Charlie Finch New work by New York artists Deborah Kass and Patricia Cronin.

Jan. 17, 2006	PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG ARTIST by Jerry Saltz If there’s no iconic image, does an artist’s work become fuzzy in the mind?

Jan. 13, 2006	TREASURE ISLAND by N.F. Karlins "The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" at the New York Public Library.

Jan. 11, 2006	OUR PICASSO? by Jerry Saltz Robert Rauschenberg draws a line in the psychic sands of American sexual and cultural values

Jan. 10, 2006	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit Chapter 1, part 1 & 2: New Forms For Old Feelings: The First Decade.

Jan. 4, 2006	POSTMODERN SYSTEMATICS by Charlie Finch Touchstones in the pseudoreligion of contemporary art.

Jan. 3, 2006	INKY DEPTHS by Jerry Saltz Celebrating art and artists, magazine-style, plus "Air Guitar" and works by Dylan Stone.

December

Dec. 28, 2005	THE 2005 ART REVUE by Walter Robinson Highs and lows, heroes and goats, art milestones and missteps, all yours in a nutshell.

Dec. 27, 2005	A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit In the introduction to his new book, to be published in Artnet Magazine, the author examines the rise of the avant-garde.

Dec. 20, 2005	SEEING OUT LOUD by Jerry Saltz Having an eye in criticism. Plus, Charles Burchfield and "Looking at Words."

Dec. 20, 2005	SIDESHOW BOB by Charlie Finch Robert Rauschenberg "Combines" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dec. 20, 2005	POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE by Charles Stuckey James Garrett Faulkner’s collages at the Hyde Park Art Center.

Dec. 15, 2005	REPORT FROM ATHENS by Chris Bors Gregory Crewdson, Cameron Jamie, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Machiko Edmondson, Gilbert Garcin, Liam Gillick & Philippe Parreno, more.

Dec. 14, 2005	LITTER AND GLITTER by Adam Kleinman New works by Justin Lieberman and Kori Newkirk at Locust Projects in Miami.

Dec. 14, 2005	SELECT, DON’T SETTLE by Charlie Finch Passing some time in New Haven.

Dec. 8, 2005	MAGIC KINGDOMS by Ana Finel Honigman Laleh Khorramian talks about fantasy, Disney and history.

Dec. 7, 2005	CLUSTERFUCK ESTHETICS by Jerry Saltz A manic-depressive panic attack in the face of profound information overload.

Dec. 6, 2005	MAGIC OF THE MUNDANE by Paul Jeromack The 15th-century painter Hans Memling at the Frick Collection.

November

Nov. 30, 2005	SOPHIE’S CHOICES by Charlie Finch New "Zebra Stripe Paintings" by Sophie Matisse.

Nov. 29, 2005	VANISHING by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp New exhibitions by Ed Ruscha, Julius Schulman and Tim Street-Porter.

Nov. 28, 2005	Hell Bent by Jerry Saltz Tamy Ben-Tor’s Dostoyevskian gallery of contemporary lost souls, louts, louses and ignoramuses.

Nov. 18, 2005	AMERICAN PORTRAIT by Fred Stern Robert Henri’s easy naturalism, done the American way.

Nov. 16, 2005	ONE YEAR AFTER by Jerry Saltz Is the Museum of Modern Art becoming a madman who thinks it is king?

Nov. 15, 2005	BRUTAL VISION by Fred Stern New sculptures and drawings by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Nov. 11, 2005	THE GROVES OF ACADEME by Charlie Finch A visit to the Columbia MFA open studios.

Nov. 10, 2005	MR. SYSTEM AND DR. DEATH by Jerry Saltz Luc Tuymans renders everything through the same shadowy scrim. Plus, Laleh Khorramian, Sergej Jensen.

Nov. 4, 2005	TIRED OF ART? by Charlie Finch In search of surprises in a complacent contemporary art world.

Nov. 1, 2005	DECORATIVE ARTS DIARY by Brook Mason Glitter and gilt in the Safra sale at Sotheby’s.

October

Oct. 31, 2005	FRENCH PAINTING AT WILDENSTEIN by Paul Jeromack "The Arts of France" from New York's legendary Old Master dealers.

Oct. 25, 2005	RELENTLESS TEMPEST by Jerry Saltz Elizabeth Murray’s distinctive place in American art. Plus, new work by Ludwig Schwarz and Claire Fontaine.

Oct. 25, 2005	INSIDE THE LONDON ART MARKET by Joe La Placa Art is a growth industry in 21st-century Britain.

Oct. 24, 2005	UNDER THE PROVENÇAL SUN by Phyllis Tuchman An alternate history of French art in Montreal.

Oct. 21, 2005	THE ART TRIP by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Curator Paul Schimmel’s "Ecstasy" brings contemporary art back to where it belongs.

Oct. 21, 2005	LOST WOMAN by Victor M. Cassidy Northwestern’s Block Museum brings architect Marion Mahony Griffin back into the light.

Oct. 20, 2005	ELIZABETHTOWN by Charlie Finch Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art.

Oct. 19, 2005	SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL by Charlie Finch Touring Chelsea on Saturday, looking to buy.

Oct. 18, 2005	BLOOD MONUMENT by Jerry Saltz Artist Sam Durant’s "Proposal" is pointed without being preachy, heartrending but not mawkish.

Oct. 14, 2005	IRREVERENT TRUTHS by Gorgon Criticism lite, dressing for success, the groovy sensibility, more.

Oct. 12, 2005	SHAMELESS AND UNASHAMED by Donald Kuspit Portraiture and psychoanalysis in the work of Lucian Freud and Andrew Wyeth.

Oct. 11, 2005	TOYS IN THE ATTIC by Charlie Finch Art protected from the wider world.

Oct. 10, 2005	ODD ARTIST OUT by Jerry Saltz Chris Martin’s show is a living room, an ashram and an opium den.

Oct. 7, 2005	Galesburg Chronicles by Walter Robinson A new chapter in Chris Verene’s record of small-town America.

September

Sept. 29, 2005	WHEN PAUL MET CAMILLE by Phyllis Tuchman Thoughts on Camille Pissarro.

Sept. 28, 2005	Eccentric Attractions by Mark Van Proyen Richard Tuttle and Elmer Bischoff in San Francisco.

Sept. 26, 2005	Ups and Downs by Jerry Saltz Charting the new contemporary art season in New York.

Sept. 23, 2005	YOUNG BERLIN by Xavier LaBoulbenne The Teutonic Turner -- Berlin’s "Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst"

Sept. 22, 2005	A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM by Charlie Finch Laurie Anderson’s supernal "The Waters Reglitterized."

Sept. 21, 2005	Drawing Notebook by N.F. Karlins Five new talents in "Obsessive Drawing" at the American Folk Art Museum.

Sept. 20, 2005	The Battle for Babylon by Jerry Saltz More artists, gallerists and curators are taking matters into their own hands in New York.

Sept. 16, 2005	Court Gestures by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Contemporary art comes to a 12th-century stone fortress in the English countryside.

Sept. 15, 2005	Crown Glory by Victor M. Cassidy Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall in Chicago gets an overhaul.

Sept. 13, 2005	A Chat with Leo Steinberg by Charlie Finch The great art historian, still in the "Now"

Sept. 12, 2005	THE TEASE CONTINUES by Charlie Finch The last pictures of Diane Arbus.

Sept. 9, 2005	9/11 Art as a Gloss on Wittgenstein by Arthur C. Danto Four years after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Sept. 6, 2005	Dirty Little Pots by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Roger Herman puts sexy spin on his ceramics.

Sept. 2, 2005	Young Uruguay by Karl Dahlquist & Paulo Ravecca Contemporary media-based art, and more, thrives in Montevideo.

August

Aug. 30, 2005	Land of Ancient Tattoos by N.F. Karlins "Art of the Marquesas Islands" at the Metropolitan Museum.

Aug. 29, 2005	What’s Love Got To Do With It? by Charlie Finch Artist Lisa Kirk organizes the feminist/anti-feminist "Bonds of Love"

Aug. 23, 2005	Art Market Guide 2005 by Richard Polsky Anselm Kiefer is a contemporary master -- and a "buy."

Aug. 12, 2005	Monaco, Africa by Carlo McCormick The Grimaldi Forum’s tribute to the "Arts of Africa"

Aug. 10, 2005	Art Market Guide 2005 by Richard Polsky No one collects Richard Tuttle with an eye on getting rich.

Aug. 8, 2005	Buffalo Soldier by Charlie Finch "Extreme Abstraction" at the Albright-Knox.

Aug. 5, 2005	The Matrix of Sensations by Donald Kuspit Digital art is grounded in codes rather than images.

Aug. 2, 2005	Talking a Little Further by Augustine Zenakos Venice Biennale co-curator Rosa Martínez on art and politics.

July

July 29, 2005	The Market for Old Masters by Paul Jeromack A brief guide for art collectors and investors.

July 22, 2005	More Than a New Discovery by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith and the subjects of identity.

July 21, 2005	Surrealist America by Lewis Kachur Three contemporaneous Surrealism shows open in the U.S.

July 19, 2005	Un-Hampered by Ben Davis The Scope Hamptons contemporary art fair in Southampton.

July 8, 2005	The Hollow Museum by Charlie Finch Trophies of the rich at the Museum of Modern Art.

July 6, 2005	FLOUNDERING by Jerry Saltz Is the Venice Biennale too big, baggy, sluggish and bureaucratic?

June

June 30, 2005	PRAIRIE SMOKE by Victor M. Cassidy Artists Dolores Wilber and Christine Rojek.

June 30, 2005	KLEE COMES HOME by Deborah Ripley Renzo Piano's new Paul Klee Center in Bern.

June 28, 2005	HARD EDGE: AN ART HANDLER'S JOURNAL by Jasper Chance Tales of art on the move in New York.

June 27, 2005	UNEQUAL PARTNERS by Jerry Saltz Discerning the difference between the good and the great in MoMA's "Cézanne and Pissarro."

June 22, 2005	SPANKING THE MEDIA by Ana Finel Honigman Collage artist Raven Schlossberg talks about porn and politics.

June 22, 2005	WITH THE WEAPONS OF ART by Ulrike Münter China's Dashanzi International Art Festival.

June 20, 2005	TOP TEN REASONS TO LOVE THE VENICE BIENNALE by Walter Robinson Highpoints from the art world's most important festival.

June 20, 2005	ANAL-RETENTIVE WARRIOR PRINCESS by Jerry Saltz Sarah Sze’s magical, maniacal ways of looking at structure and space.

June 17, 2005	SIGNS OF LIFE ON WEST 23RD STREET by Charlie Finch The latest developments on Chelsea's new gold coast.

June 16, 2005	THE FEAST – PART I by Victor M. Cassidy The Art Institute of Chicago reinstalls its Galleries of American Art.

June 13, 2005	FOLK ART NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins Art with a capital A at three exhibitions of self-taught artists.

June 9, 2005	TRANSLATING MUNTADAS by Michèle C. Cone The artist behind Spain’s 2005 pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

June 8, 2005	SUSTAINING ABSTRACT PAINTING by Donald Kuspit The many layers of Wlodzimierz Ksiazek.

June 6, 2005	IRREVERENT TRUTHS by Gorgon The spectacle of art and money, happily married.

May

May 31, 2005	HAMMERED by Jerry Saltz Auctions are like stripteases, enticing the audience with what’s just out of reach.

May 26, 2005	ART MARKET GUIDE 2005 by Richard Polsky Some post-auction thoughts for spring 2005.

May 26, 2005	RESTORATION DRAMA by Jerry Saltz Daniel Buren’s Guggenheim installation turns the museum into a kind of sex machine.

May 25, 2005	SUPER NATURAL HISTORY by IIka Scobie New York painter Walton Ford and his animal-kingdom chronicles.

May 6, 2005	HOW NOW, GERRIT DOU? by Paul Jeromack A prize Old Master painting at Christie's.

May 24, 2005	ASK MARK KOSTABI by Mark Kostabi Nothing sells in the art world like a point of view.

May 20, 2005	FAIR FORMULA by Kathryn Rosenfeld Chicago's new NOVA art fair wasn't that new.

May 20, 2005	SWAN'S WAY by Ana Finel Honigman Anh Duong talks about being her own muse.

May 18, 2005	INVISIBLE MAN by Charlie Finch Reading the secrets of Jasper Johns' new "Catenary" series.

May 17, 2005	AGAINST INTERPRETATION by Charlie Finch New paintings by Malcolm Morley and Judy Ledgerwood.

May 17, 2005	MYSTIC RIVERS by Jerry Saltz Intriguing questions in "3 x Abstraction" at the Drawing Center.

May 12, 2005	THE NEW YORK 12 by Phyllis Tuchman A guide to Sol LeWitt wall drawings in New York City.

May 9, 2005	ART MARKET GUIDE 2005 by Richard Polsky Signs of stability in the spring contemporary art sales in New York.

May 6, 2005	WHATEVER LAUREL WANTS by Jerry Saltz Laurel Nakadate is a wolf in baby doll’s clothing.

April

April 28, 2005	CLOSE TALKER by Roberta Fallon "An Evening with Chuck Close" in Philadelphia.

April 27, 2005	THE DECLINE AND FALL OF PAINTING by Charlie Finch The bad stuff is everywhere.

April 26, 2005	DIRE DIARY by Jerry Saltz The gushy artforum.com items read like the Us magazine of art criticism.

April 25, 2005	GO FOR IT by Ilka Scobie A talk with "Basquiat" co-curator Kellie Jones.

April 20, 2005	DANGER IS HER GAME by Charlie Finch Laurel Nakadate takes liberties.

April 19, 2005	TO HELL AND BACK by Jerry Saltz Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged rough but ready, not fully formed but fully loaded.

April 14, 2005	ART MARKET GUIDE 2005 by Richard Polsky Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick is a "buy."

April 13, 2005	THE CONTEMPORARY AND THE HISTORICAL by Donald Kuspit More at odds than ever before.

April 12, 2005	PUNKS AND PROFITS by Ana Finel Honigman A conversation with Marxian art critic Julian Stallabrass.

April 11, 2005	A SPACE, NOT AN ACT by Sidonie von Grasenabb Vanessa Beecroft at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

April 6, 2005	THE EMPEROR'S NEW PAINTINGS by Jerry Saltz Is Damien Hirst more than hype, hubris and money?

April 4, 2005	TIME AND CHANGE by Charlie Finch New work by Robert Gober, Beth Campbell, Kevin Landers and Wayne Adams.

March

March 29, 2005	LESSER NEW YORK by Jerry Saltz P.S.1 and MoMA try to tame the wildness of youth.

March 24, 2005	IRREVERENT TRUTHS by Gorgon The routine professionalism -- and cynical knowingness -- of "Greater New York."

March 23, 2005	WE ARE THEIRS by Jerry Saltz Sarah Morris' new film reverses Warhol's dictum about 15 minutes of fame.

March 18, 2005	REALITY SHOWS by Phyllis Tuchman Thomas Demand at the Museum of Modern Art.

March 17, 2005	MAD MONEY by Charlie Finch New works by Lane Twitchell, plus a peek into a dealer's back room.

March 16, 2005	HOT SET by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp George Herms and Walter Hopps talking in Los Angeles.

March 11, 2005	I LOVE KIPPENBERGER by Nicole Davis Three gallery shows in New York of works by Martin Kippenberger.

March 10, 2005	MORE, MORE, MORE! by Charlie Finch At the 2005 Armory Show, a volcanic pressure to buy.

March 10, 2005	ART MARKET GUIDE 2005 by Richard Polsky Works by San Francisco Photorealist Robert Bechtle are a relative bargain.

March 9, 2005	DIONYSUS IN PARIS by Max Henry "Dionysiac" at the Centre Pompidou is a ribald bacchanal.

March 8, 2005	THE ICON AND THE ICONOCLAST by Jerry Saltz One of the best shows of the season -- Rudolf Stingel at Paula Cooper Gallery -- takes place in an empty gallery.

March 4, 2005	SYSTEM OVERLOAD by Jerry Saltz Transforming the junk pile of culture into something ominous, investigative, and visionary.

March 3, 2005	HOMAGE TO DAVID BIERK by Donald Kuspit An artist whose work is tragic, mournful and subliminally joyous.

March 2, 2005

TOOTHPASTE
by Charlie Finch
Gobs of art materialize to chase gobs of money.

February

February 28, 2005	ART MARKET GUIDE 2005 by Richard Polsky Uncertain prospects at auction for works by Christo & Jeanne Claude.

February 25, 2005	HERO, HAWK AND OPEN HAND by Victor M. Cassidy Artistry -- and politics -- in ancient Native American art.

February 24, 2005	NOTHING FANCY by Ana Finel Honigman The wit and wonder of Martin Creed.

February 9, 2005	LONDON CALLING by Joe La Placa Art at auction, and in Charles Saatchi's "Triumph of Painting."

February 8, 2005	MOURNING GLORY by Jerry Saltz British artist Steve McQueen engages with history both as a participant and an outsider.

February 2, 2005	THE MUSEUM COMES TO US: ART IN 2050 by Charlie Finch The forthcoming digital art world.

February 2, 2005

FEEDING FRENZY
by Jerry Saltz
Are art fairs the triumph of the corporate avant-garde?

January

January 27, 2005	PRELUDE TO DESIRE by Michele C. Cone "Images of the Floating World" at the Grand Palais in Paris.

January 27, 2005	NOGUCHI AT 100 by Fred Stern Celebrating the centenary of the master sculptor Isamu Noguchi.

January 26, 2005	RUBENS SUPERSTAR by Paul Jeromack The genius of Peter Paul Rubens via drawings and oil sketches.

January 25, 2005	A MODEST PROPOSAL by Jerry Saltz Some ideas for a better Museum of Modern Art.

January 21, 2005	IS AUTISTIC ARTISTIC? by N.F. Karlins As "Outsider Art Week" approaches, several gallery shows raise tough questions.

January 20, 2005	MORE AGROVATION by Charlie Finch Brooklyn painter Chuck Agro's blue-collar esthetic.

January 7, 2005	NEW YEAR, NEW STAR by Charlie Finch Introducing the postmodernist minimalist Anthony James.

January 6, 2005	IRREVERENT TRUTHS by Gorgon Artists making fools of themselves, and worse.

January 5, 2005	LOST HORIZON by Jerry Saltz The ego, libido, ambition and energy of the volatile East Village art scene.

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