Two influential art dealers leave their posts for higher-profile gigs, museum directors settle down in plush, tax-free homes, and artists cash in on lucrative sneaker design deals. This week in art news: When opportunity knocks…
1. Lehman Brothers to Auction Off More Art
In an effort to repay creditors, Lehman Brothers Read More
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is devoted to the paintings, drawings and prints of an artist who was a contemporary of the Impressionists and, in so many ways, their antithesis. The ethereal and spooky pictures of Redon, who died in 1916 at the age Read More
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is devoted to the paintings, drawings and prints of an artist who was a contemporary of the Impressionists and, in so many ways, their antithesis. The ethereal and spooky pictures of Redon, who died in 1916 at the age Read More
A good indicator of whether or not a work of visual art succeeds on its own terms is its ability to resist literary explanation. By this measure, my notes for Tide Table and Learning the Flute (both 2003), black-and-white animated films by the South African artist William Kentridge, on view at Marian Goodman Gallery, should Read More
Words Alone Cannot Describe
William Kentridge’s Animated Film
A good indicator of whether or not a work of visual art succeeds on its own terms is its ability to resist literary explanation. By this measure, my notes for Tide Table and Learning the Flute (both 2003), black-and-white animated films by the South African artist Read More
Another week in New York, another art museum opens. Well, not quite: The American Folk Art Museum, which has now opened its new headquarters at 45 West 53rd Street, down the block from the Museum of Modern Art, has been around in one guise or another for four decades. When it was inaugurated in 1961, Read More
