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…
In the early 1970s, art historian and critic Leo Steinberg wrote a series of short articles for ARTnews about works he believed were masterpieces, mainly ones from the Renaissance and Baroque…
Leo Steinberg, a giant among art historians, died on Sunday in Manhattan, age 90. At the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) awards ceremony last night, MoMA curator John Elderfield told t…
The interpretation of sexual symbols in art is everywhere. But what we view as erotic often tells us less about the artists than it does about our own sensibilities.
On no account must the suspicion arise that the fresco, culpable in so many details, might be heterodox in essentials. Michelangelo's well-wishing friends, who saw in the Last Judgment the ultimate…
If a teacher's stature is measured by the number of his students who achieve national and international renown in their own right, then that of Hofmann is without equal.