Supernatural gifts—like communicating with the dead or powers of prophecy—aren’t typically associated with art critics. If that were the case, we could venture into more lucrative professions—real estate, say, or palm reading. Still, I feel confident divining the response of Marcel Duchamp, the grand père of anti-art, who died almost 40 years ago, to the Read More
Supernatural gifts—like communicating with the dead or powers of prophecy—aren’t typically associated with art critics. If that were the case, we could venture into more lucrative professions—real estate, say, or palm reading. Still, I feel confident divining the response of Marcel Duchamp, the grand père of anti-art, who died almost 40 years ago, to the Read More
The Women of Giacometti, an array of paintings and sculpture by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) on display at Pace Wildenstein, prompts a kind of yearning that has become familiar at the 57th Street branch of the gallery. Past shows bringing together Bonnard and Rothko, de Kooning and Dubuffet, Mondrian and Ad Reinhardt, and Read More
The Women of Giacometti, an array of paintings and sculpture by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) on display at Pace Wildenstein, prompts a kind of yearning that has become familiar at the 57th Street branch of the gallery. Past shows bringing together Bonnard and Rothko, de Kooning and Dubuffet, Mondrian and Ad Reinhardt, Read More
American painters with an affinity for the aesthetics of abstraction have often grappled with the problem of influence-the influence, that is, of the European masters of abstract art. Total resistance to that influence was not, after all, an aesthetic option for painters of this persuasion.Thebasic modalities of abstract art were set early on in the Read More
