Space Is the Place Space Is the Place
I recently returned to dingy England after a road trip in America, where, as usual, I failed to take any photographs.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Geoff Dyer
Creative Destruction Creative Destruction
Edward Burtynsky's photographs are large, colorful and mostly ravishing, despite their subjects.
Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
Paint It Black Paint It Black
If the idea of monochrome painting occurred to anyone before the twentieth century, it would have been understood as a picture of a monochrome reality, and probably taken as a ...
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Southern Man Southern Man
In 1900 Maurice Denis painted a large canvas titled Hommage à Cézanne, which shows the esteemed master next to one of his paintings and surrounded by a crowd of a...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Sex and the City Sex and the City
From the mid to the late 1920s, the German painter Christian Schad produced a group of paintings like little else in modern art.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Anatomy Lesson The Anatomy Lesson
Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle
Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Reading Leonardo Reading Leonardo
In 1906, the French savant Pierre Duhem published a three-volume work on Leonardo as scientist under the innocuous title Études sur Leonard de Vinci. It was the work's s...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The ‘Indivisible Four’ The ‘Indivisible Four’
The Grey Art Gallery, which occupies the former site of the Museum of Living Art in the main building of New York University on Washington Square, is celebrating its legendary ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Bride & the Bottle Rack The Bride & the Bottle Rack
The idea of craft is an unanticipated product of the Industrial Revolution.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique
Judy Chicago
Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto