In the "everyday art world," artists are always on the move, disdaining not only art objects but any kind of artistic finality whatsoever, making putative works out of mere schmoozing, and turning t…
From the fickering snippet of old black-and-white film on the wall-mounted video monitor at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, you can tell that John Storrs lived pretty well. The pioneer Ameri…
As we’ve all known for ages, the Biennial is a one-stop tour of “What’s Happening Now,” determined by a completely untransparent selection process that’s a combination of Rolodex, word of mouth, perso…
My negative attitude and I were brought up profoundly and cheerfully short by an exhibition titled “Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage,” which is on view at the Metropolitan Muse…
It’s quixotic, not to say risky, to try to derive broad cultural conclusions from a day’s sweep of the galleries in Chelsea—or anyplace where there are more than a half-dozen of them within walking di…
Cinephiles who also frequent art galleries might call it the “Michael Cimino Effect,” except that in the art world it proceeds more slowly, and the bottom line isn’t quite so, well, bottom line…
Bruce Nauman, the 67-year-old American artist who was selected early last year to be the U.S. artist-representative at the Biennale, has spent his entire career trying to bridge the gap between the re…