Fine Art

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

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