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- Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic… Accommodate
- Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that,… Able
- My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art… Art
- My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love… All
- New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly… Architectural
- New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we… Bronx
- Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them… Adore
- Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with… Auction
- Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is… All
- Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. Academics
- Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves:… Artist
- Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a… Alone
- Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in… Any
- The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged… Alchemically
- The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to… Alive
- The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz… Alfred
- The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become… Art
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better… Art
- 'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought… Bridge
- 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early… Anywhere
- The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch,… All
- The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and… Ago
- There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs… All
- There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to… All
- Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the… Art
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