Bodybuilders: Smith, Mueck Stuck in Repeat Performances

How much pleasure you derive from Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005, a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will depend on whether you think art should simply confirm what we know or expand and deepen our knowledge.

Anyone conversant with Ms. Smith’s sculptures, drawings and installations will recognize that the word “pleasure” Read More

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August Sander Inspires Met

In Art and Science of Classification

How do you know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the best museum going? Check out the deft manner in which its curators have juxtaposed Indexing the World and August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century , two superb exhibitions of photography that Read More