Getting Paint Off the Wall
Starting with cheerful spills of industrial materials, Lynda Benglis has teased the limits of taste, eroticism, and the male-dominated art world. Read More
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Author Archives: Ann Landi
Food for Thought
Everyone agrees that portion sizes in depictions of the Last Supper have grown. Not everyone agrees why. Read More
The Five-Year Plan
How the Met and the Whitney came to share an iconic Warhol. Read More
Ready for His Close-Up
Chuck Close: Life
By Christopher Finch
Prestel, 352 pages, $34.95 Read More
Where the Art Happens
Museums are finding ingenious ways to connect visitors with the artist’s interior world. Read More
Separating the Good from the ‘Crapola’
Seeing Out Louder
By Jerry Saltz
Hard Press Editions/Hudson Hills Press,
420 pages, $40
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Dancing with Degas
An exhibition explores Picasso's seven-decade obsession with a man he saw as not only an artistic predecessor but also a father figure. Read More
On With the Shows
Jeffrey Deitch explains why his career change from dealer to museum director makes sense. Read More
Is Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder?
Researchers in the evolving field of neuroesthetics seek to determine what happens in the cerebral cortex when we see art—and, in the process, figure out what makes great works so mesmerizing. Read More
Little Archer, Big Mystery
As a marble sculpture of a boy makes its debut at the Met, experts continue to debate whether it is an early Michelangelo . Read More
What They See in Van Gogh’s Ear
In the decades since van Gogh sliced off a portion of his left earlobe, the event has given rise to theories, pranks, merchandise, and a host of references in culture high and low. Read More
Decoding Leonardo
With a spate of suggested new attributions and a theme park devoted to his work, Leonardo da Vinci remains a source of speculation, mystery, and popular appeal. Read More
