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Alles zu seiner Zeit

The art in 2012 is something of a particle: it can be a dizzy with all the events. Biennials in Berlin, New York and Sydney, Documenta in Kassel, Manifesta in Ghent, retrospectives of Gerhard Richter and Gustav Klimt , and felt 300 art fairs in the commun... Read >

Auf der Suche nach dem Werk

Ana Serratosa stands in Hall 8, beaming. High above it hangs a network of ventilation tubes in polished order to extend around a broad, black wooden floor. Then, with plenty of room to breathe, fair booths. The 215 galleries you realize the 31 ARCOmadrid ... Read >

Art Market Watch LONDON SALES OF CONTEMPORARY ART by Jessica Mizrachi

Can’t make it to London for this week’s sales of contemporary art? Well, you could watch live streams of the action on the auction house websites, but the camera stays glued to the rostrum, which hardly gives the full picture. Increasingly, art-market ... Read >

Damien Hirst SPOTS, SHARKS, MAGGOTS AND MONEY by Jerry Saltz

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon and Catholicism. He’s the ¬wo... Read >

Martin Luther King MLK: AN ART EXEGESIS by Charlie Finch

Way back in the 1984 Presidential contest, I was one of Senator Gary Hart's field coordinators, and, as it should be, a number of my assistants turned out a lot better than I did. That group includes current New York City transportation commissioner J... Read >

Next Generation Leadership and Generative Leadership

The reason we have interest in Next Generation Leadership is because the last generation of leadership interpretations were inadequate. They didn’t deliver the goods of enabling actual leadership and leadership results, however captivating the leadership... Read >

Francis Picabia GORGONS IN DISGUISE: PICABIA'S WOMEN by Donald Kuspit

It’s much more interesting to paint women than apples, as Francis Picabia’s late paintings strongly suggest, and to paint them in a sort of illustrational manner -- in a casual, cliché-ridden populist style, with its simplistic realism and readability... Read >

The Art Prophets CONFIDENCE MEN by Pedro Vélez

Richard Polsky, The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World, Other Press, 2011, 262 pp. $24.95. Richard Polsky is a rare bird -- an art dealer who writes books (and magazine columns, which he used to contribute to this... Read >

Adam Lindemann THE PRINCE OF THE ONE PERCENT by Jerry Saltz

In the Dec. 5, 2011, issue of the New York Observer, the art collector and columnist Adam Lindemann announced, “I’m not going to Art Basel Miami Beach this year. I’m through with it, basta. It’s become . . . embarrassing . . . why should I be seen rub... Read >

Close Encounters THE ART WORLD NAMING BLIGHT by Linda Yablonsky

Last week, with collectors swarming Miami Beach in profligate display, the Miami Art Museum announced that it would rename itself the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County. Pérez, it was explained, is a local real estate developer who is dona... Read >

Miami Art Week SALES HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ART FAIRS

It used to be that a reporter had to run all around the art fairs and buttonhole art dealers to get sales results. Sometimes they didn't even want to tell you. Picture this, several years ago, a stout, pony-tailed gallery director, when asked about the... Read >

Jack Early FOREVER AND TODAY by Elizabeth Kley

Sharing an immaculate sense of design and a love of popular culture, Pruitt and Early was a win/win combination at the height of their short-lived career. But as soon as Rob Pruitt and Jack Early split in 1992, their pathways dramatically diverged. Pru... Read >

Howard Hodgkin THE MARK OF COLOR by Jennifer Samet

There’s something impossible and almost greedy about Howard Hodgkin’s paintings -- the way his marks, dashes and curves of viscous paint on wood create dynamic, emotionally resonant objects. In the clear white space of Gagosian Gallery, these boldly color... Read >

Art Basel Miami Beach MORE ON MIAMI ART WEEK by Walter Robinson

Day one of the New Art Dealers Association art fair at the Deauville Hotel, which is a ways up Collins Avenue at 68th Street in Miami Beach. The hotel setting is perfect, airy, rambling, low key. A young art dealer spots an older couple, apparently for... Read >

DAVID, DELACROIX AND REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE by N.F. Karlins

One of the cheeriest faces in New York right now can be found at the Morgan Library & Museum, in an exhibition of drawings on loan from the Musée du Louvre. It’s Pierre-Paul Prud’hon’s black-and-white chalk rendering of his pupil, fellow artist and eve... Read >