By Staff 3/23/06 12:02pm

Appalachian Spring

The Times beat me to the punch today on noting that Appalachia actually runs through New York State.

But the DMI blog also notes that while Governor Pataki said the other day (as the Spitzer remark slipped through GOP fingers) that Appalachia “doesn’t have Empire Zones,” of course West Virginia et al. Read More

By Hilton Kramer 7/26/04 12:00am

Rudy Burkhardt’s Photographs of N.Y. Captured an Age

The late Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999), whose photographs are the subject of an enchanting exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, was for so many years a familiar and admired presence on the New York art scene that it comes as something of a shock to be reminded, as we are by this exhibition, that he’s Read More

By Hilton Kramer 2/14/00 12:00am

Walker Evans at the Met: A Devotion to High Art

Has it ever been observed that the American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975), whose work is now the subject of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, belonged to the same generation as the painters and sculptors of the New York School? He was born the same year as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, Read More