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Climate Activists Target Mega-Collector’s Charles Ray Sculpture in Paris
The work belongs to the collection of French billionaire François Pinault, one of the richest men in the world.
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Do the Old Masters Still Speak to Us?
Now and then, I suspect that an honest art writer might feel as if he or she is losing it.
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All in the Smooth, White, Vacant-Eyed Family of Contemporary Figurative Sculpture
PHILADELPHIA — Once upon a time, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there lived a family of sculptures. They were all smooth, white, and vacant-eyed.
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The Triumph of Revisionism: The Whitney’s American Century
With America Is Hard to See, the exhibition inaugurating its luminous new Renzo Piano building, the Whitney has reclaimed its role among the city’s museums as the engine of the new.
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum's First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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Photo Preview: "NYC 1993” at the New Museum
Opening tonight, the New Museum's NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star purports to offer a time capsule, or, as the museum's curator Gary Carrion-Murayari put it, a "form of collective memory" documenting a particular time in a particular art scene, namely, New York City in the '90s.
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Nobuo Sekine and Charles Ray and Their Sculptures Filled with Liquid
Lee Ufan’s letter to Stella underscores his ongoing critique of Western aesthetics, which began with the specific objects we associate with Minimalism. Whereas Minimalism, at least as Stella codified it, emphasizes the material presence of an object isolated from the passage of time, the artists ass
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The Whitney Biennial in Photos
This year’s Whitney Biennial may be my favorite in memory. I’ve been thinking about it for over two months now and will publish my review here next week but until then I wanted to post some photos that I snapped during the press preview back in February.