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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The revered Venezuelan-born artist made multilayered, eye-popping works that challenged conventional notions of perception, color, and light, and helped to define what became known as Kinetic Art and…
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From the Archives: Thomas B. Hess on Alberto Giacometti, in 1966
"He was like a man who, because he must breathe, resents air."
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Memorial to a Many-Sided Non-Objectivist: Thomas B. Hess on László Moholy-Nagy, in 1947
"Perhaps some day the examples of his teaching, his writing, his applied and 'fine' art may 'penetrate into everyone's daily routine,' " Hess wrote
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‘Op Is Out-of-Town Art’: Thomas B. Hess on MoMA’s Show ‘The Responsive Eye,’ in 1965
This February marks the 50th anniversary of MoMA’s 1965 show “The Responsive Eye,” the exhibition that formalized Op art as a movement, albeit a short-lived one. Curated by William Seitz, the show<a href="http://www.elmuseo.org/the-illusive-eye/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"…
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From 1971: Editorial: Is Women’s Lib Medieval?
The following, published in ARTnews in January 1971, is a companion editorial to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” It is reproduced in connection with our coverage of Women…
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Retrospective: Duchamp’s ‘interior-decorator’s eye’
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Retrospective: ‘The Phony Crisis in American Art’
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De Kooning Paints a Picture
The former ARTnews editor traces the "Hamlet-like history" of an Abstract Expressionist classic
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Top Ten ARTnews Stories: Capturing the Artist in Action
Jackson Pollock was arguably America's first art star, seizing the popular imagination in a way no homegrown painter had before.
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