Editor’s Letter: The Crime Issue | Summer 2016
‘Ruins have been ruined,” proclaimed an early April headline in the New York Times. The Times had sent a photographer to Palmyra, the 2,000-year-old archaeological site in Syria that had…
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Editor’s Letter: Icons | Spring 2016
A few months ago, on the heels of a merger with BMP Media Holdings, we at ARTnews announced that our magazine would become a quarterly. To many of our readers this understandably may have come…
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Growing Pains: Franklin Sirmans and the Future of the Pérez Art Museum Miami
There are major streets in downtown Miami that have been effectively hollowed out by development, impossible to traverse and made useless in the name of progress. It is a city of luxury
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Waiting for Bob: In Which Robert Wilson Has a Busy Day
The plan was that, on a Wednesday morning in July, I would take the bus to Southampton, New York, where a publicist would pick me up and drive me to the Watermill Center about five minutes…
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Of Flies and Homemade Bombs: Yoko Ono’s Art World
One recent afternoon, I was sitting in a room in Yoko Ono’s apartment in the Dakota building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, waiting for her to arrive. The apartment was dark, but this…
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City Slicker: Cowboy Fanatic Dylan Brant Curates Show at Venus Over Manhattan
On a recent afternoon, Dylan Brant, stepson of media mogul and art collector Peter Brant, whom he refers to as “Dad,” was in the office at Venus Over Manhattan, Adam Lindemann’s gallery on…
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Disaster Writing: New Book By Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist Wreaks Havoc on Original Thought
Readers of a certain age will probably know Marshall McLuhan best for his cameo in Annie Hall, in which the Canadian-born media scholar appears suddenly to chastise an annoying member of a…
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Her Hatchet Is More Like an Ax: Renata Adler and the Problem with Critics
The most recently published piece in Renata Adler’s collected nonfiction, After the Tall Timber (New York Review Books), is a curious defense of the serial plagiarizer Jayson Blair by way of…
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See You in Havana: Rachel Kushner’s Cuba
With the publication in 2013 of her celebrated second novel, The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner earned the rare distinction of becoming a crossover novelist embraced by the art world. It…
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How to Kill Your Idols: Kim Gordon Takes No Prisoners In New Memoir
“Rock music is all about repression,” Kim Gordon wrote in the catalogue for the artist Mike Kelley’s 1993 retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Thankfully, though, Gordon holds nothing back in…
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