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Arthur C. Danto

Art Critic

The Nation's art critic since 1984, Arthur Danto is also Columbia University's Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy. His numerous book credits include the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award winner Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present and The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (2000).

Currently

  • Unlovable

    May 8, 2008

    The contemporary art world, reflected in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, is themeless and heading in no identifiable direction.

  • Just Looking

    March 20, 2008 Subscribe

    Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.

2007

  • Tilted Ash

    December 13, 2007

    A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.

  • Cinema Studies

    May 17, 2007

    The staged images in Jeff Wall's photographs mirror the fictional glamour of film stills and formal painting.

  • A Mannerist in Madrid

    March 29, 2007 Subscribe

    Jacopo Tintoretto outshines Michelangelo, but his work is rarely seen outside of Venice.

  • Letters

    January 24, 2007

  • Surface Appeal

    January 11, 2007

    Marden and Manet at MoMA.

2006

  • The Body in Pain

    November 9, 2006

    Fernando Botero's latest series of paintings, inspired by the Abu Ghraib photos, immerse us in the experience of suffering in a way the original photographs never did.

  • Stargazer

    September 13, 2006

    Andy Warhol's eye for significant banality transformed the familiar into art. Ric Burns's new American Masters documentary traces the roots of Warhol's smirking genius.

  • All About Eva

    June 28, 2006

    In the late '60's, Eva Hesse's ambitious sculptures challenged the art world. Collected in a new exhibition, her art is even greater today.

  • I'll Be Your Mirror

    April 13, 2006

    The art on display at the Whitney Biennial 2006 doesn't have to tell us it's not morning in America: We know that by watching the evening news.

  • Letters

    February 2, 2006

  • Soul Eyes

    January 19, 2006

    Fra Angelico's genius for depicting the interior life--states of love, spirituality or anguish--is stirring the interest of contemporary artists.

  • Live Flesh

    January 4, 2006

    In no other body of work is the sexuality of human flesh explored as truthfully as in the transgressive, erotically charged images created by Egon Schiele.

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