Librarians seem like the bookish types who hang out by stacks and make friends with moldy books. But David Smith, 54, a supervising librarian in the Allen Room and the Wertheim Study at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, is apparently hobnobbing with the stars. He is their "Virgil Read More
Open-form, welded-metal sculpture is now so familiar to the art public that it’s sometimes forgotten how radical and controversial it was among traditionalists when it made its debut in the 1950′s as “The New Sculpture.” For as long as anyone could then remember, the art of sculpture had been defined by the conventions of carving Read More
Scarcely any topic animates chattering conservatives quite like a vigorous discussion of “character” and the related deficiencies of decadent liberalism. What we saw prominently displayed last week, however, were certain of the least attractive aspects of the modern conservative character-as exposed by the decision of Sinclair Broadcast Group executives to censor the reading of the Read More
Among the really dedicated art collectors I have known, the late Lois Orswell (1904-1998) was the most unusual. She was certainly the most insistent in avoiding the limelight. Beyond the short list of living American artists whose work she acquired and a shorter list of the dealers she bought from, few people in the art Read More
For aficionados of modern sculpture, it’s a stroke of good
fortune that the traveling exhibition devoted to the early work of the American
sculptor David Smith (1906-65) has come to New York-the
final stop on its national tour-at a moment when the Alberto Giacometti
retrospective (at the Museum of Modern Art) and the Henry Moore Read More
