The Look of Truth The Look of Truth
Photographs are supposed to be unbiased recognitions of reality, but they're really self-portraits of the photographer. The Ongoing Movement, a blend of biography and analysis, exa...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Peter Plagens
Octoberfest Octoberfest
Four editors of October magazine trace the history of contemporary art. Though Art Since 1900 seeks to be comprehensive, its writers leave out entire movements and impose moralisti...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Salvador Memories Salvador Memories
An exhibit at the International Center of Photography showcasing the brutal images of the civil war in El Salvador should remind the Pentagon and the public that the "Salvador Opt...
Oct 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
How Art Can Save Your Life How Art Can Save Your Life
Michael Kimmelman's The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa is a celebration of the intersection between art and life and the random genius of the unexpected.
Oct 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Hal Foster
The American Sublime The American Sublime
Robert Smithson's epic earthwork, Spiral Jetty tends to render critics speechless.
Sep 1, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Philosophy of Art The Philosophy of Art
Aug 18, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Degen
The Optical Unconscious The Optical Unconscious
Max Ernst at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
May 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Flyboy in the Buttermilk Flyboy in the Buttermilk
Basquiat in Brooklyn.
Apr 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
American Graffiti American Graffiti
In the works that made him famous, Jasper Johns realized an ancient dream by painting things that overcame the distinction between reality and representation--numerals, for examp...
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Pop and Circumstance Pop and Circumstance
You may recall the to-do occasioned two winters past by a certain shift in the mise-en-scène at the United Nations.
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman