The Wee Hours

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Night With Kanye

“I don’t talk to the fuckin’ press!” Kanye West told The Observer.

We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party to celebrate artist George Condo’s first retrospective, “Mental States,” which opened last Wednesday at the New Museum. This is no small show. In fact, it’s a tour de Read More

Art World News

60-Second Art World

Game-Changers: Well-connected gallerist David Zwirner won the right to represent the Donald Judd Foundation, hard on the heels of Pace’s win of the Willem de Kooning estate.

Winner of the Week: Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang, whose 1993 painting Chapter of a New Century–Birth of the People’s Republic of China II sold for $5.9 million Read More

MoMA Curators, Take Note: Don’t Forget ‘Passion and Energy’

In a letter to The New York Times Magazine, Caroline Homard of Farmington Hills, Mich., engages in some pre-emptive art criticism. Responding to an article about the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art, Ms. Homard worries that the “scholastic squabbles of the curators” will “drain [MoMA’s collection] of all life.” Likening the new galleries Read More