Art

Mea Culpa

There are things that I have failed to clue into that continue to make me wince when I think of them. Things that force me to ask “How could I have missed my cues so completely?”

Art

Assessing My Critical Adjustments and Changing Perspectives

Even if we believe in certain unspoken art criticism criteria that are involuntary but formed and informed by extended looking, nothing can be proved. We can always be wrong.

Art

Not So Funny Art-World Gossip

When I had to do one of the most difficult things in my Artillery career, I felt like I made a huge mistake: I fired my gossip columnist, Mitchell Mulholland.

Art

Is That How You Pronounce ... ?

It’s embarrassing admitting this, but in looking back over my many mistakes operating in the art world, some of my most egregious errors regard the names of the people populating it — how easy it is to get some of them wrong.

Art

Hey, Nobody’s Perfect!

I’ve never read something by one of my peers and thought 's/he’s mistaken!' Although I have often disagreed. Whose mistake is that? It’s not the writer’s.

Art

Being a Critic on the Outside Isn’t Actually a Bad Place to Be

My biggest regret is that I tried a little too hard to fit in when I first began writing art reviews in 1977.

Art

Sunday Edition, Mistakes: 😬 From Oversights to Missteps ❌

Errors are the focus of this edition, as writers Lucy Lippard, John Yau, Robert Storr, Karen Wilkin, Kimberly Bradley, Tulsa Kinney, and Erin Thompson offer takes on being wrong.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Ava DuVernay interviews Angela Davis, newly declassified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, poking fun at wealthy Brooklyn moms, and more.

Music

Songs of Perpetual Self-Discovery

Having embraced adulthood with her band Paramore, in her solo debut Hayley Williams advances to full self-actualization.

Interview

Beer with a Painter: Dan Douke

“I was always good at drawing and I would get attention for it. But I wanted to be a rock star.”

Interview

Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections

“When times are dark there is the inclination to want to give up. But the Dark Ages led to the Renaissance.”

Art

The Prison Drawings of Frank Jones

Frank Jones was “double-sighted” — born with a caul over his left eye — which gave him, or so it was believed, the power to communicate with the spirit world.