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Art writer in New York. Editor at Artnet News. Previously in Seoul.

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RIP Steve Albini—an unparalleled producer and an exceptional writer. His 1993 essay 'The Problem with Music' is the most clear-eyed examination of money in the arts that I have ever read. Every artist in every discipline should read it.
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RIP Faith Ringgold, a dauntless and astonishingly inventive artist, activist, author, illustrator, sculptor, and children’s-book legend. The great ideas just kept coming. She was one of the signal cultural figures of our times.
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RIP Etel Adnan (1925–2021), an artist and writer of staggering commitment and intimate splendor. Never a brushstroke wasted.
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Could really go for a visit to an art museum in a mid-sized American city right now. A leisurely stroll through the permanent collection, followed by wings, beer, maybe a brownie sundae.
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1 year
“girl dinner”
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RIP Richard Serra, an artist of uncompromising ambition and invention—monumental in every possible sense. His art is about balance and risk, conjuring drama and surprising sensuality from massive abstract forces. An era now closes.
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RIP Keith Sonnier, 78, whose sculptures glow and charm and linger. They can be the life of the party or an invitation to be very still. In his art, he once said, "the viewer is inside the light. You are in the moonlight so to speak . . ."
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5 years
A gem of a New Yorker letter to the editor on Alex Ross’s great recent piece on Salieri
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7 years
A few of my favorite beach scenes: Manet, Stettheimer (at the Jersey shore), Alex Katz, and the great @StarLedger
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The ice cream never melts, the cakes are fresh out of the oven, and the world is bathing in light. The day is young, but there are shadows creeping in. RIP, the great Wayne Thiebaud.
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RIP Robert Bechtle, 88, who conjured sun-drenched daily life with a tender precision. Pristine cars promising freedom. Sturdy new homes. People at their best. His paintings are bracingly still—and full. The shadows may be getting long, but night is still a long way off.
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A button from 1991 in the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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6 years
William Barr, 2019 Olivier Mosset, 2010 Wade Guyton, 2007 Kazimir Malevich, 1915
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2 years
Sound the alarms! Nam June Paik's masterwork, 'The More, The Better' (1988) at the MMCA Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, has been full restored. The scaffolding is off. It is ready to change your life.
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6 years
Barbara Kruger's response to Gary Indiana in 1988, when he asked artists what they were thinking about
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2 years
Piet Mondrian's calling card, from the astonishing card collection donated to the Met by F. C. Schang
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6 years
Ed Ruscha, 'HE DIDN’T CARE AND NEITHER DID SHE,' 1974
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6 years
Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment.
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2 years
". . . only 58 police officers were specifically dispatched to manage a throng of 100,000 people. Yet, earlier that day, a quick drive away, more than 6,000 officers had been on hand to surveil a peaceful protest against President Yoon."
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5 years
RIP David C. Driskell, 88, an artist of joyous experimentation and a scholar of expansive influence. His contributions to art, and its full history, are incalculable.
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RIP Tomie dePaola, an artist of kindhearted, fantastical adventures. "Bubble, bubble, pasta pot. / Boil me some pasta, nice and hot.”
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5 years
Beautifully presented produce—a perfect vertical grid.
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RIP Sam Gilliam, a signal painter of the past century, a master of blazing, luminous color. His paintings are miraculous in their matter-of-fact complexity. They are living things.
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RIP Jason Polan, the indefatigable artist who once drew every single piece of art on view at MoMA, and who tried to draw every person in New York City. His art says: "I'd be in heaven/If you'd share the modern world with me," as Jonathan Richman sings.
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3 years
November 19 is the 50th anniversary of Chris Burden's 'Shoot.' About as perfect and horrific as any artwork could ever be. A line in the sand.
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2 years
Major ‘nepo baby’ artists: – Alexander Calder – Raphael – Pieter Brueghel the Younger – Artemisia Gentileschi – Pablo Picasso
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Happy Birthday, Florine Stettheimer!
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5 years
Personal news! After 5 years at ARTnews, I'm excited to be joining Surface ( @SurfaceMag ) as deputy editor.
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RIP Jackie Winsor (1941–2024), who led Minimalism into territory that is raw, tender, rugged, and alive to the natural world. Her work holds time, with candor and grace. She was one of the greatest to do it in our era.
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4 years
Florine Stettheimer, 'Christmas,' ca. 1930–40. Collection Yale University Art Gallery.
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5 years
The feeling when you think you’ve discovered a Bruce Nauman while strolling down the street
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7 years
The pamphlet handed out by protestors at the Met today
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6 years
Speaking as an art critic, I can tell you that there is definitely something very cool going on in this apartment.
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4 years
Yayoi Kusama, 'Air Mail Stickers,' 1962. (Collection Whitney Museum.) A 1st-class stamp was 4¢, about 34¢ in today's dollars.
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5 years
@NikkiHaley Ambassador Haley, I don't want to shock you, but actual people work in these organizations and fields, and they support businesses in all 50 states.
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1 year
Someone sign Justice Kagan as a staff art critic!
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2 years
Could spend many hours tweeting the best Schjeldahl lines. Here is one, from 1988: “Jeff Koons makes me sick.” Buckle up from there…
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3 years
Edward Hopper, 'The Bootleggers,' 1925. Collection Currier Museum of Art.
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5 years
Happy Birthday, Florine Stettheimer!
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Edward Hopper, 'Two Comedians,' 1966
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RIP Matthew Wong, 1984–2019. One of the great painters of the past decade. He covered a lot of ground in a short span of time. He was just getting started.
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5 years
I love when abstract paintings refer to their own flatness. "Ah," I say, gazing upon it. "This is a very flat painting. It is not a three-dimensional object. It did not attempt to deceive me."
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RIP the wry, gallant, indefatigable John Baldessari, who burned his early art, imbued conceptualism with joyful absurdity, and never, ever, ever stopped experimenting.
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4 years
Ed Ruscha, 'Soup,' 1970 Gunpowder on paper
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RIP Christo, an artist of boundless energy, earnest invention, and great persuasion. He and Jeanne-Claude showed how to get things done: keep pushing. A true believer.
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Piotr Uklański, 'Untitled (Coconut Tree),' 1998
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Charles Ray, 'Firetruck,' 1993
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4 years
Look, this is all fun and games for people experiencing their first or second monolith. But some of us have been dealing with these things for years—even our whole lives. Every day and every place: monolith, monolith, monolith.
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5 years
Key Paper Artworks of the Past 100 Years: A Survey – Saburo Murakami, 1965 – Rauschenberg, 'Erased de Kooning Drawing,' 1953 – Martin Creed, 1995 – Nancy Pelosi, 2020
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8 years
@BAKKOOONN @IAmVerySilky @seanhannity @newtgingrich I attended the JFK protest and did not receive promised #soros check. Now, #maga .
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1 year
Take these malls and stuff them full of art. Dig all the deep-cut, minor, and overlooked stuff out of museum storage and get it into rotation. Let 100 Dia Beacons bloom.
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4 years
Susan Rothenberg hanging in the Obama White House, dominating the scene. Wall power.
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3 years
RIP to Karl Wirsum, a master of monstrous beauty, of superb strangeness. He conceived of weirdness as a virtue, a high calling.
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Once this is over, the amount of art I am going to view is going to be truly appalling. Weeklong binges without sleep, sprinting through museums, licking the Manets, stroking the Brancusis. Onlookers will be aghast, disgusted, repulsed. I will not relent.
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Always wanted to know more about Arthur Cravan, the poet, boxer, and irascible who was a hero to so many Dadaists and Surrealists, and who disappeared in 1918 at the age of only 31. This 10-part BBC podcast on his life by Ross Sutherland is a wild ride.
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Always pleasantly surprised to find a scrappy young gallery closed at an hour it says it will be open. Resisting the professionalization of art. Spurning the market. Resistance.
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Going to tell the grandkids about the summer that both MoMA and the Studio Museum were closed. Doubt they'll believe it. "But surely Klaus did something out in the Rockaways?" they'll ask. "A Patti Smith concert?" "No, he had forsaken us. Off to Los Angeles, kids. Gone away."
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RFK in 1968, after the murder or Martin Luther King, Jr.
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5 years
On Kawara, '24,698 Days (100 Years Calendar),' 2000 – Yellow dots: a day he was alive – Blue dots: a day he made a date painting – Red dots: a day he made more than one
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RIP Ashley Bickerton, 1959–2022. An artist of thrilling, dauntless invention. He shrugged off fixed categories, old rules, and all notions of taste. It will take a long time to make sense of what he accomplished.
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Maurizio Cattelan is going 2 for 2 on New York Post covers. This has to be some sort of record.
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The clarity and elegance of Roberta Smith's writing hardly need mentioning. What I have always admired about Smith is her shoe-leather reporting. She sees everything, first. More than 4,500 reviews, essays: an astonishing run—that will thankfully continue.
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6 years
Only cassette I’m using from now on.
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Francis Ford Coppola in a bizarre Japanese FUJI cassette commercial
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The small but mighty Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, has received Edward Hopper's astonishing final work—'Two Comedians,' 1966—as part of a large, anonymous gift. (The comedians taking a bow are Hopper and his wife, Josephine.)
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4 years
Faith Ringgold, ‘United States of Attica,’ 1972 "This map of American violence is incomplete. Please write in whatever you find lacking."
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6 years
Love when galleries answer the phone by saying, ‘Gallery.’ Are there other industries like this? ‘Restaurant.’ ‘Clothing store.’ ‘Bookseller.’
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RIP Giovanni Anselmo. His 1969 'Untitled (Structure That Eats)' is as good as it gets: Wry, odd, poignant—ingenious.
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Gagosian's Picasso blockbuster is just unreal. Why are there not lines down the block? It's a show of force, with loans from the Met, MoMA, more. The fabled 'Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O)'? Here, too. Larry Gagosian has spent some huge sum to make this happen. It awaits you.
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Ed Ruscha, 'Not a Bad World, Is it?,' 1984
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Holland Cotter wisely notes that the $65 million that David Koch gave for the Met's fountains would have covered the income it will generate through the new ticket-price hike for a DECADE.
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6 years
A masterpiece. And also a warning: vaccinate your children. Pauline de Broglie died shortly after sitting for the great Ingres.
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5 years
Just parked my lawn chair outside the Brooklyn Museum so that I can be first in line for the KAWS show in 2021.
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7 years
Hahahahahahahahahaha
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French businessman and budding collector Jean de Menil discovers barbecue in the late 1930s in Texas
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“Saying you’ve seen these sculptures when you’ve seen only the white marble is comparable to somebody coming from the beach and saying they’ve seen a whale because there was a skeleton on the beach.”
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If you get to their apartment and they don’t have Whitney Biennial apparel in the closet, don’t date them! Walk right on out.
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RIP Lawrence Weiner, an artist of wry wisdom, inspiring conviction, and crystalline beauty.
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RIP Lutz Bacher, whose multifarious, impossible-to-summarize art was bewitching and menacing, hilarious and melancholy. A new idea—a whole new practice—with every show. A model artist, uncompromising.
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Doing the bit where I ask every gallery assistant at David Zwirner, ‘Are you the artist? Josh Smith?’ ‘Artists usually don’t work the desk at their shows,’ one guy says. ‘Makes sense,’ I reply. ‘He seems to love to paint! He must be in the studio every second!’
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For Artforum's year-end issue, I wrote about the return of Nam June Paik's 1,003-screen video piece 'The More, the Better' (1988), after years of conservation work, in Gwacheon, South Korea. It is a majestic, strange, moving work, with a wild backstory.
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5 years
I have a project I would like to pitch to Hauser & Wirth Menorca
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RIP John Wesley, peerless painter of furtive desire, piquant anxiety, and endless, shapeshifting humor. His art is bracingly contemporary and strangely timeless. There has never been anyone like him.
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Doing the bit where I ask the front-desk assistants at Zwirner where the "Infinity Room" is. "I'm sorry, sir, that show closed a year ago," one says. Giving him a hard stare.
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– Joan Brown, 'The Swimmers,' 1974 – Yves Klein, 'Leap into the Void,' 1960 – Tomb of the diver, Paestum, 470 BC – David Hockney, 1967
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Two big thumbs up for the King Charles painting. A man bathed in fire, resilient, unyielding. History is against him. He will be consumed—but not quite yet. It's a reminder that minor artists can create masterpieces.
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MOCA goes with free general admission. (Special exhibitions will remain ticketed.) Biesenbach: “MOCA should feel like a public library where you can go and have access to culture.”
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6 years
God I love that painting
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At 1, join a permanent collection gallery talk on "Bravura Brushwork and Impressive Impasto: Paintings about Paint": [Antoine Vollon, Mound of Butter, 1875/1885, oil on canvas]
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Always a thrill to finally see up close work you’ve only ever experienced through JPEGs.
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2 years
RIP Lee Bontecou, whose exquisite sculptures harbor sinister psychic truths and dark industrial forces, but also, especially later on, visions of freedom, wisdom, and escape. One of the greatest of all time.
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Some would advise against including a headshot on your CV, but this is a powerful counterargument.
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Ed Ruscha, ‘Thinking the Same,’ 1974
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4 years
MoMA now owns a Matthew Wong, a gift from his parents, Nate Freeman reports
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9 months
Please stop throwing soup at art
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6 months
A miraculous late Manet is on view at Sotheby's for a few more days. Go visit! Admission is free. Until next week, this picture belongs to us all.
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Folks, we have an instant classic of a press release on our hands.
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“Without art criticism, artists would have nothing to criticize but each other.” —John Perrault, 1973, in ‘Art-Rite,’ no. 1
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