Posts from December, 2010

Our annual New Year’s Quiz


Our annual quiz returns in December. Here was the 2009 installment, which should have been the titled “The Show in Best”.


A Remarkable Posthumous Debut


on view at Galerie St. Etienne through December 30, 2010


Psychodrama: Modern Art As Group Therapy


The introduction to his latest book with essays on Karel Appel, Louise Bourgeois, Lucian Freud, Helmut Newton and others


The Raw and the Cooked: The late paintings of Hans Hartung


The French-German abstractionist’s first New York show since 1975, up through December 30


Surfing the Flotsam: Free at the New Museum


on view through January 23


The Price of Beauty: Two novels set in the art market


By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham; An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin


Hardware and Software Conspire: Peter Soriano at Frederico Sève


Peter Soriano: Dimensions Variable ran from September 23 to November 6


Play the 2010 New Year’s Quiz


Cheating in Google is bad for the soul, but good for our visitor stats!


Who, Me? James Esber and the Megolomania of the Group Portrait


Up through December 23. Friends of the artist traced his drawing of Osama bin Laden


Strikingly Simple Gestures: Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali


The show ran from October 22 to December 4