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Activists of the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi (Ours) wave the flags with portraits of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a concert in downtown of Moscow, December 2011 EPA/SERGEI

2011 in Review
THE 10 ART EVENTS OF 2011
by Charlie Finch

Dec. 14, 2011

AI WEIWEI He was arrested, his assistants disappeared, his wife was detained, his animal heads sold for millions, he cleverly maneuvered his persona through social media after his release, the Chinese government fined him millions, W magazine ran a strange piece by Weiwei featuring a model detained on Riker's Island, ICP exhibited his NYC photos from the 1980s to great acclaim: all added up to the year of Ai

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December

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	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. 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.