Swatting at Art

After successfully attacking jaywalkers with curbside barriers and adult-oriented businesses with zoning curbs, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now waging war on two fronts at once, to stamp o

Art Winslow

Pas de Deux, en Masse

A cluster of concepts that, before the seventies, had together formed the received idea of art and artists came under intense criticism in that decade.

Arthur C. Danto

Of Time and the Artist

One afternoon in 1985, I rode in a taxi down Broadway with the physicist I.I. Rabi, discussing time and age.

Arthur C. Danto

Correspondance School Art

If we think of a historical period as defined by what the French have usefully designated a mentalité--a shared set of attitudes, practices and beliefs--then periods end when one <

Arthur C. Danto

Degas in Vegas

Arthur C. Danto

Pollock and the Drip

A characteristically handsome painting by Joan Mitchell is on view at the Museum of Modern Art in the exhibition American Art: 1940-1970.

Arthur C. Danto