"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time." - Jean Cocteau Although I pride myself on having wide-ranging taste in art, ...
Most artists, curators and collectors can agree on the importance of art conservation. But the politics of "reworking" an artwork, whether altering th...
Leaving the full-time creation of art to take on part-time work is not the happy story of art, but the current recession has made this scenario the reality for quite a few.
Thursday is opening day of the first U.S. retrospective of director Stanley Kubrick. This exhibition covers Kubrick's career, beginning with his early photographs for Look through his directorial works of the 1950s through the 1990s.
A secret among art lovers, "Shift," one of the first pieces by now legendary sculptor Richard Serra, has widely remained off the radar because it was ...
BRIDGEHAMPTON, New York -- To reach Martos Gallery's third and final summer pop-up exhibition at an obliging collector's humble Hamptons house, visito...
MoCA is currently hosting the first ever historical, thematic museum exhibition tackling Land Art. The exhibition, titled "Ends of the Earth: Land Art...
Crocheting provides pleasure and distraction to many who wish to pass the time, yet being a pastime means far more than being just a diversion. Brazil...
Last night, BOMB Magazine celebrated its 31st anniversary at Capitale in New York by honoring curator Klaus Biesenbach, playwright Marsha Norman, and ...
2011 was a year of friction -- people demanded to be heard and if they weren't heard, they occupied. They physically made themselves part of the conversation, taking the narrative into their own hands and putting voice to visceral disagreement.
The sculptor Richard Serra is known the world over for his minimalist works that emphasize material and create an engrossing experience. However, anot...
Noah Becker on the phone: photo by Steven Lane It's a rainy night in...
Simply put, important new artists are most likely to emerge in the same cities where important artists have emerged in the recent past. And even more narrowly, in recent decades important new artists have been most likely to emerge from the same academic institutions that have produced important artists in the past.
Still way off the beaten path, and captivatingly so, New York's 2nd annual Nuit Blanche overcame difficult weather and logistical hurdles to blind a f...
Chuck Close is well known for his photorealistic portraits, and as an artist with numerous parties vying for control of his work, he is in a unique po...
Richard Serra: The Drawings, organized by the Menil Collection in Houston at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is much more ephemeral than most of the c...
In a few years, when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens the mammoth extension designed for it by the Norwegian architect team Snøhetta, Ric...
The legal battle over Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum's collection is finally over. According to reports published Thursday morning, the univers...
It's been a crazy week here of the Arts Page: the 65th Annual Tony Awards were Sunday with performances by Neil Patrick Harris and "The Book of Mormon...
For a feature in the July issue of Vanity Fair, Justin Timberlake was interviewed during a trip to LACMA, and the LA Times has some choice quotes on t...
It was only a matter of time before Anish Kapoor, sculptor-extraordinaire of all things bulbous, shiny and massive, was invited to fill up the exhibit...
The Castelli Gallery was perhaps the most prominent commercial venue for art in the world, starting from the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s.
Looking back at the last decade crystallizes my belief that the best art does something more than interconnect with the events around it. It actually contributes to events that have yet to happen.
The modern or contemporary museum's self-professed job now often includes reconfiguring social relationships, emphasizing performance and participation of the audience.
Steve Martin may be a wild and crazy guy elsewhere but when it comes to his new novel, An Object of Beauty, set squarely in Manhattan's art-and-commerce world, he's serious.
