Autocorrect: The Politics of Museum Collection Re-Hangs
Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, recently framed the curator’s central dilemma in terms of the problem of storage: at any given…
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Specific Objectives: The Complex Task of Preserving Donald Judd’s Legacy
One recent afternoon in Donald Judd’s old house in downtown Manhattan, the late artist’s children—Flavin and Rainer—were discussing their father’s career. Flavin has a boyish, unlined face…
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Issues & Commentary: Some American Notes
Assessing the current state of photography in Britain and in the U.S., the author discerns pernicious links among enterprise culture, art-world simulationism, and the homophobic attacks of neoconserva…
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Basquiat and the Collecting of History
Why is one of the 20th century's most celebrated artists underrepresented in museum collections?
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Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012
Hilton Kramer, former chief art critic for the New York Times and founder of the journal The New Criterion, died this morning in Harpswell, Me., according to the Times. He was 84. The cause is…
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From the Archives: Helms, Censorship, and the Serpent
In light of January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, freedom of speech has become a front-of-mind issue once more. Yet, for all the grimness of ongoing external threats, artists in the land of the…
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