Fine Art

Back Talk: Tod Papageorge Back Talk: Tod Papageorge

Photographer Tod Papageorge reflects on the links between American sports and the Vietnam War.

May 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood

Unlovable Unlovable

The contemporary art world, reflected in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, is themeless and heading in no identifiable direction.

May 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Every Photo an Archive Every Photo an Archive

Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.

Apr 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield

Spots, Smudges and Glitter Spots, Smudges and Glitter

A tour of the New York art galleries reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of "bad" representational painting.

Apr 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Just Looking Just Looking

Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.

Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Daring Intransigence Daring Intransigence

Gustave Courbet's blunt pictorial style and taciturn sensibility prefigured the ambivalence and photographic exactitude of modern painting.

Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

The Where of It The Where of It

The best location for Lawrence Weiner's conceptual art is in the viewer's own imagination.

Feb 5, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

An Unmonumental Grimace An Unmonumental Grimace

Taking stock of the new New Museum.

Jan 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Tilted Ash Tilted Ash

A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.

Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The Madman and the Poet The Madman and the Poet

In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.

Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff

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