What these works express is less a coherent critical position than a shared sense of dispossession. In this way, "Brand New" feels like less a historical survey than a field report of the current…
Given the whirlwind of geographic and conceptual changes in contemporary-art landscape, we couldn't help doing some serious navel-gazing (especially in light of the upcoming "Inventing Downtown: Artis…
After 41 years of serving artists, dealers, and collectors quality northern Italian fare, Da Silvano closed after last night’s service. A restaurant perched on Sixth Avenue just above the streak of…
The notion that collectors sit atop the hierarchy of today's art world is axiomatic. They build private museums and control the boards of traditional ones. Through their acquisitions, they determine…
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 framed by…
Robert Rauschenberg kept only one major example of his earliest, most influential body of work, the Combine paintings he made between 1954 and 1961. Short Circuit (1955) is similar to other works…
On a sunny morning in early September, 79-year-old artist Frank Stella stood on the loading dock of his studio in upstate New York. Across the street a gigantic crane was lifting a couple of hulking…