How Leo Castelli, MoMA, and Two Wealthy Collectors Charted Today’s Rocket-Fueled Art Market
A new legal paper and a close look at the Castelli archives has much to teach us about the soaring prices for contemporary art.
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Then and Now: Warhol’s Back—Again
A retrospective of the artist's work opens at the Whitney Museum on Monday, November 12.
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‘I Like Dogs with a Human Head’: David Lynch Shows New Paintings in Los Angeles
The exhibition at Kayne Griffin Corcoran gallery takes the title "I Was a Teenage Insect."
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Memory Banks
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…
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You Can Always Go Downtown: The Lower Manhattan Art World Through the Years
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…
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Da Silvano, a Legendary New York Art World Hangout, Has Closed
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…
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Clean, Well-Lighted Places: On Our Nostalgia for the Golden Age of Art Dealing
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…
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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 framed by…
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American Beauty: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Case of the Missing Flag
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…
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The Wrestler: Frank Stella Readies a Landmark Third New York Retrospective
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…
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