Artists The Most Controversial Artworks of the 21st Century So Far These envelope-pushing works seemed designed to create scandal—and that was sometimes the point. By Howard Halle Apr 3, 2025 10:46 am
News Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated Sale, Organized by Rich Paul, Earns Over $20 M. on Shaky Ground Fifteen works failed to sell. By Daniel Cassady Sep 27, 2024 6:37 pm
News An Art Historian Has a Solution for the Debates Over Representation and Identity In his new book Art's Properties, art historian David Joselit takes on one of the defining debates of our time. By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei Feb 27, 2023 3:45 pm
Reviews Gray Areas: Maggie Nelson’s Ambivalent Essays In her new essay collection, "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint", Maggie Nelson offers an unconvincing argument in favor of indeterminacy. By Jackson Arn Sep 9, 2021 10:39 am
News Brooklyn Museum Deaccessions Continue, Dana Schutz’s Trump Painting Heads to Auction, and More: Morning Links from October 19, 2020 Here's what we're reading this morning. By Claire Selvin Oct 19, 2020 8:48 am
News Painter Dana Schutz, Whose Work Set Off Whitney Museum Controversy, Heads to David Zwirner Petzel gallery previously represented her in New York. By Sarah Douglas, Alex Greenberger Oct 5, 2020 2:15 pm
Reviews Shifting Styles and Moral Steadiness Made Philip Guston a Lodestar for Artists Today Guston encourages artists to change their work, to examine their relationship to evil, and to revel in their own ambivalence about the meaning of art. By Eleanor Heartney Jun 22, 2020 3:45 pm
ARTnews Mike Cloud Invents a New Kind of Portrait Painting "The question is, how do you paint people as real, as suffering, without exploiting them emotionally?" the artist said. By Anne Doran Oct 31, 2019 10:11 am
News Exhibiting Change: When Some of the Best-Attended Exhibitions in Museums Are Protests, Where Do Institutions Go from Here? All around the country, directors are grappling with questions of equity, diversity, and inclusion. By Barbara Pollack May 21, 2019 12:27 pm
Reviews Dana Schutz The twelve paintings on view at Petzel were spectacular demonstrations of Dana Schutz's virtuosic painterly gifts. By Rachel Wetzler Apr 1, 2019 9:20 am
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