By NYO Staff 12:00am

Sanitation or Garbage?

Wisely, and with understated eloquence, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has chosen to downplay an egregious assault on his character and an offense against decency posing as “art.” It is left for others to ask the directors of the Whitney Museum of American Art why they would be party to a crude, ad hominem attack on the Read More

By Hilton Kramer 4/05/99 12:00am

MoMA Takes Strange Turn With a Chic, Empty Show

In the mythology of Greek antiquity, the Muses were thought to be the patron goddesses of the arts and sciences. In the beginning there were only three. Later, presumably to accommodate the traffic, this company of female divinities was expanded to nine. Among the best-known to posterity are Clio, the Muse of history; Terpsichore, the Read More