What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Before you place a bid on that original Jeff Koons ceramic Puppy vase, you might want to take a peek at Donald Kuspit's The End of Art.
Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Habiba Alcindor
A Tribe Called Quest A Tribe Called Quest
Walking through the retrospective exhibition of Lee Bontecou, on view at MoMA-Queens, is uncannily like visiting an out-of-the-way museum of natural history, as if her entire wor...
Sep 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Body and Soul Body and Soul
In the 1960s, the New York Jewish Museum became the unlikely leading venue for contemporary avant-garde art in America.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Artists Without Borders Artists Without Borders
Three years ago I saw a work by the late Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth that so captivated me that I am determined to write a book just to be able to reproduce it on the jacke...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Kids Are Alright The Kids Are Alright
Several of the recent Whitney Biennials have aspired to something more than a display of "the latest in American Art," to cite the phrase used to advertise the current sh...
Apr 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Since I'm from California, I sometimes dare to dispute the seemingly popular East Coast belief that my home state is a cultural wasteland.
Apr 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Abby Aguirre
Staring at the Sea Staring at the Sea
Toward the end of January, I received an invitation to a press opening for "Manet and the Sea," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Apr 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Bad Boy, Good Manners Bad Boy, Good Manners
Few of the good things that reward the rising--or risen--young artist have not fallen to John Currin in recent days.
Jan 15, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Abstract Impressionist The Abstract Impressionist
I have always marveled at the way in which Abstract Expressionism was able to transform a disparate group of painters, none of whom had shown any particular promise of artistic g...
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Art Therapy Art Therapy
While filming in Western Australia in May 1999, the critic Robert Hughes survived--barely--a head-on collision with another car.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto