Modern Love Modern Love
Two new biographies of Clement Greenberg take the measure of an ambitious art critic who had a knack for predicting success.
Sep 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Stargazer Stargazer
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.
Sep 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Guernica, Again Guernica, Again
The targeting of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon summons the image of Picasso's wrenching mural that memorialized innocents caught in the crossfire.
Jul 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas von Hoffman
All About Eva All About Eva
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.
Jun 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Body Artist The Body Artist
Two biographies of Thomas Eakins reveal the art world's attitudes about the painter's bodily obsessions: Was he a curious innocent, a brilliant anatomist or a dirty old man?
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Peter Plagens
I’ll Be Your Mirror I’ll Be Your Mirror
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.
Apr 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf
Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America's cultural treasures--a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart's naked greed and exploit...
Feb 21, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
Soul Eyes Soul Eyes
Fra Angelico's genius for depicting the interior life--states of love, spirituality or anguish--is stirring the interest of contemporary artists.
Jan 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Live Flesh Live Flesh
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.
Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Rembrandt’s Year Rembrandt’s Year
2006 marks Rembrandt's 400th birthday, and an array of exhibitions, from the sublime to the silly, will open in Amsterdam, Washington and beyond. As the aesthetic hype escalate...
Dec 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Abigail R. Esman