Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel
Tilman Riemenschneider
Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness
A shark swims past me in a kelp forest that sways back and forth with the current. It is deliberate and focused.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Terry Tempest Williams
Bland Art in Every Pot Bland Art in Every Pot
In 1989, after several years of controversy, legal wrangling and numerous public forums, Richard Serra's sculptural installation Tilted Arc was removed from a federal plaza in Ne...
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Grant
Flag-Waving at the Whitney Flag-Waving at the Whitney
The Triumph of the New York School, a deeply ironic painting by the American artist Mark Tansey, looks at first sight like a rotogravure depiction of a military surrender that to...
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Catholic Bashing? Catholic Bashing?
My father disapproved of the "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He thought it was bad for the Jews.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
‘Sensation’ in Brooklyn ‘Sensation’ in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, as if persuaded by its own ill-advised publicity that the art in its "Sensation" show might endanger the welfare of its viewers, at first thought it p...
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Swatting at Art 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...
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
Pas de Deux, en Masse 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.
Jun 10, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Of Time and the Artist 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.
May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Correspondance School Art 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 ...
Mar 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto