Art
How Artists Can Help Us Conceive of New Flags and Monuments for the US
All flags bear the stain of conquest.
Fred Wilson
Art
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.
Art
World's Largest Space for Contemporary Glass Art Lets in the Light
CORNING, NY — This Friday, a luminous new wing of the Corning Museum of Glass opens for the display of contemporary glass art and its molten creation.
Art
Fred Wilson on Isamu Noguchi's Multifaceted Modernism
On a dismal, rainy Saturday in Manhattan, as dirty snow slowly melted to reveal winter’s detritus outside, the cheerful, humorous, and ever approachable Fred Wilson led a group of gallerygoers through Isamu Noguchi’s Variations.
Opinion
The Joe Paterno Statue and Questions of Public Art
In light of Jerry Sandusky's recent conviction for sexually abusing 10 boys, the statue of Joe Paterno, the former football coach of Pennsylvania State University who failed to alert authorities to the abuse, outside the school's Beaver Stadium has quickly become an extremely controversial symbol. A
Opinion
Required Reading
This week on Required Reading … William Powhida has devised a new power axis of art world affirmation … New York Observer explains the thing called the "professional collector" … at Idiom they ask an important question "Can an art experience be authentic even if the status of the work of art remains