Art Criticism

Blogging During Wartime

Jan Herman | Posted 01.30.2008 | Entertainment


Jan Herman

Artist Joshua Brown says that before the invasion of Iraq he was fooled into believing "that American influence in the Middle East was going to be triumphant." He began doing his visual blog the first day of the Iraq war.

Samba, Castro and Voodoo--or Art

Carine Fabius | Posted 01.23.2008 | Living


Carine Fabius

Artistic stereotyping is nothing new. If you are a Black writer, you must only be interested in writing about the black experience, right? If you are a musician from Cuba, surely you have no interest in rock and roll!

Eating Art in a World of Greed

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living


Peter Clothier

Today's collectors consume art with insatiable and competitive greed. They can't wait to write their seven-figure checks for those the art market has blessed.

Overlooked and Undersung

Jan Herman | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment


Jan Herman

Jim Dine's show of selected prints gives you as much as you please. They offer an eyeful on the not small matter of prevarication, which some would submit is the issue of our time.