In the book Bruce Nauman: The True Artist(due out May 5 from Phaidon), the painter, critic and longtime Nauman acquaintance Peter Plagens seeks to view the subject whole…
From the fickering snippet of old black-and-white film on the wall-mounted video monitor at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, you can tell that John Storrs lived pretty well. The pioneer Ameri…
In 2007 we profiled George Condo, creator of that controversial Kanye West album cover that does not seem destined for a store near you. Read about his punk-rock past, how his portrait of Queen…
As we’ve all known for ages, the Biennial is a one-stop tour of “What’s Happening Now,” determined by a completely untransparent selection process that’s a combination of Rolodex, word of mouth, perso…
My negative attitude and I were brought up profoundly and cheerfully short by an exhibition titled “Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage,” which is on view at the Metropolitan Muse…
It’s quixotic, not to say risky, to try to derive broad cultural conclusions from a day’s sweep of the galleries in Chelsea—or anyplace where there are more than a half-dozen of them within walking di…
Cinephiles who also frequent art galleries might call it the “Michael Cimino Effect,” except that in the art world it proceeds more slowly, and the bottom line isn’t quite so, well, bottom line…