I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies The word has been denatured in the past decade.
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
When art wins, everyone wins.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.
Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
I hate art auctions.
