A seemingly random selection of the Spanish master provoked close readings; from earlier this year

Ogden’s work leverages anxiety and excitement, brush on canvas, as pain’ing.

An exhibition and its extracurricular programming explore artistic representations of mass incarceration.

Two shows highlight the work of contemporary New Orleans artists and others connected to the city.

an exclusive extract from her new biography, Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

The Armory Show 2009 opened today. artcritical editor DAVID COHENwas there with his iPhone Armory, First Day Weigh-In What’s the best way to cope with a Recession–if you’re in the artworld? Expand. And how must you behave? With utter nonchalance, of course. Hence the Armory–not content simply to be the behemoth fair of contemporary, primary-market work, now … Continued

Cheim & Read 547 West 25th Street New York City 212 242 7727 September 20 to November 3, 2007 In Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s “Triumph of Death” (circa 1562), hordes of skeletons swarm upon a town, pitilessly inflicting lessons about the transitoriness of life and its diversions. Popular depictions of death have evolved in the … Continued