With no Olympics in 2011, patriots wishing to cheer on America will have to be content with the thrilling international competition of the 54th Venice Biennale. Whereas the State Department has traditionally sent blue chip art-stars to bear our standard—a strategy which saw Bruce Naumann bring the golden lion home to the American Pavilion in Read More
As the Whitney Biennial launches this week to the usual hyperbolic chorus of yays and nays, behind the scenes at the museum, a major change is happening. There was a new face at the Whitney’s board meeting last week. A new familiar face: Peter Norton, the software magnate, contemporary-art collector and accomplished board hopper, who Read More
Go-Go in Limbo
When former ImClone chief executive Sam Waksal pleaded guilty last March to conspiring to evade taxes on $15 million worth of art bought through the Gagosian Gallery, a predictable chain of events occurred: The U.S. Attorney’s office sued the gallery’s namesake, Larry (Go-Go) Gagosian, and Vanity Fair assigned a profile.
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On July 29, Maxwell Anderson was named director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, replacing David Ross, who resigned in March to assume the directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A Greek and Roman classicist who graduated from Dartmouth College and has most recently been the director of the Art Gallery Read More
As readers of this column have ample reason to know, I am not an optimist by nature. About the current state of the New York art world, moreover, I am especially gloomy. And foremost among the causes of that gloom in recent years has been the appalling record of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Read More
