Art: What We Talk About When We Talk About Art
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When it comes to fashionably obtuse language, the art world is one of the leading offenders.
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What might be called premise-based art is being turned out hand over fist right now at Mary Booneâs gallery in Chelsea.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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The Grey Art Gallery offers a spirited display of Latin American abstraction. Working through its riches is both humbling and thrilling; you encounter your ignorance and have a chance to rectify it.
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Inspired by graffiti, posters and the communal culture of the Web, stickers are gaining wide attention as an artistic phenomenon.
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The latest project at the Museum of Sex harnesses our collective sexual preferences to tailor personal recommendations for adult content. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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A show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash invites us to reconsider the virtues of this underrated painter.
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South Asian art is a hard sell here. Does it come across as too sexy, too spiritual, too naturalistic, too all of these? Asia Society smooths over the issue by offering a something-for-everyone array.
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The renewed appetite for art as an investment is drawing attention to a small number of scholars who have been applying economics to this new asset class.
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Is this true? Do we believe this? These questions â constantly asked by actors about their own performances and those of their colleagues â should apply across the board in the arts.
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Keep your art collection in your living room? Why, thatâs for novices.
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Two pieces of Christian art that predate the Holocaust raise questions about anti-Semitism.
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Sex, happiness, time, culture, exchange and mind. Money in all its guises.
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Talk of God is popular this season, with timely plays on religious themes.
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"Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints" (Pantheon Books. 524 Pages. $30) &#151; Joan Acocella: While culling essays for her new collection, "Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints," Joan Acocella discovered a loose theme: the hardships that come with creation, and how various artists dealt with these obstacles &#151; or did not. The humbler virtues of perseverance, she came to see, are as important, and as laudable, as talent.
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Art imitates life, and  life imitates art, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is  which.
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Letâs not lose the plot. In defense of âbadâ words in childrenâs books.