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Sunday, October 13th, 2013
Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013, Forest Houses, Bronx, New York. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Romain Lopez.
…It made me proud to be an artist and a New Yorker ...
Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Honore Daumier, Galerie Tableaux. Image taken from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository.
What differentiates a “gallerist” from a dealer or a curator? ...

John Dubrow, Family Portrait, Upper West Side, 2010-11. Oil on linen, 50 x 66 inches. Courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art
Sunday, October 27th, 2013

“Curating for the Kids”: Artist Jill Nathanson makes the case for real collectors

On Collectors Who Look (and Think) for Themselves

Architectural rendering of the new Pen and Brush exhibition space in New York City, due to open Winter 2013/14. ADG/McDonald ARCHITECTS, 2013 / Artist Credit: Hunter Clarke, Shannon Reid, Andrea Stanislav
Monday, June 3rd, 2013

Towards Gender Parity: Quality and Fairness in the Art Market

The author is director of Pen And Brush, the venerable women’s art organization

Gerrit Rietveld, Child’s wheelbarrow,1923 (manufactured 1958). Painted wood, 12-1/2 x 11-3/8 x 33-1/2 inches. Manufactured by Gerard van de Groenekan. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Beeldrecht, Amsterdam
Monday, September 24th, 2012

MoMA and Child: The Century of the Child at the Museum of Modern Art

Growing by Design 1900-2000 on view through November 5.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, The Annunciation, 2010. Video still. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Art at Christmas: Fernando Botero, Elija-Liisa Ahtila, Ludwig Blum

From different traditions, presented in varied contexts, a trinity of artists reveals mystic truths.

Ronnie Landfield, Diamond Lake, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 108 x 168 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Philip Johnson
Saturday, November 5th, 2011

The Three Bands: An Artist Replies

The color field painter responds to suggestions at artcritical that he drop his trademark color bands

David Humphrey, Pounder, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the Artist. Cover FEBRUARY 2010: Mike, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 44 inches.
Friday, February 12th, 2010

Describable Beauty

Essay by David Humphrey