Title Fights: How Museums Name Their Shows
Generating a title for a museum show involves curators, directors, publicists, and more. It can be grueling, it can be fun, and it sometimes takes years to find the right one Read More
View ArticleMorning Links: TIME Person of the Year Edition
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View ArticleWithout Doubt: At 90, Ed Moses Is Flush With Confidence
‘I never thought I would live this long,” Ed Moses said with a wry grin. It’s a gorgeous Sunday morning at his home and studio in Venice, California, and he was in his element, amid a batch of big...
View ArticleHow to Fix the Art World, Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’ If you are just now tuning in, here’s a link to Part 1, and here’s a little background:Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic project: … Read...
View ArticleVasari Diary: Philippe Costamagna’s ‘The Eye,’ Barbara Rose on Greenberg, and...
The latest column includes a personal history of connoisseurs, a repudiation of an art-historical giant, and an interview with the South Africa–based photographer. Read More The post Vasari Diary:...
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Title Fights: How Museums Name Their Shows
Got a show to curate? Need a title for your exhibition? You might look to the Internet and click on Rebecca Uchill’s Random Exhibition Title Generator, which will give you such plausible-sounding...
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From the Archives: The Whitney’s “American Standard”
A.i.A.‘s May issue focuses on the Whitney Museum of American Art as it opens its new building, designed by Renzo Piano, in New York’s Meatpacking District. The inaugural show, “America Is Hard to...
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Morning Links: TIME Person of the Year Edition
This year’s TIME Person of the Year cover. COURTESY TIME TIME managing editor Nancy Gibbs explains why the magazine asked Irish artist Colin Davidson to paint Angela Merkel’s portrait for its “Person...
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Without Doubt: At 90, Ed Moses Is Flush With Confidence
Ed Moses. COURTESY THE ARTIST ‘I never thought I would live this long,” Ed Moses said with a wry grin. It’s a gorgeous Sunday morning at his home and studio in Venice, California, and he was in his...
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How to Fix the Art World, Part 2
HANDWRITTEN TEXT BY ALEXANDER DUMBADZE Welcome to Part 2 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’ If you are just now tuning in, here’s a link to Part 1, and here’s a little background: Back in August my staff...
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Vasari Diary: Philippe Costamagna’s ‘The Eye,’ Barbara Rose on Greenberg, and...
Piero della Francesca, Madonna del Parto, after 1457, Musei Civici Madonna del Parto, Monterchi, Italy. EDISONBLUS, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS THE EYE The Eye: An Intimate Memoir of Masterpieces, Money and...
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Barbara Rose, Impassioned Critic Who Reshaped Art History, Has Died at 84
Barbara Rose, a critic and curator whose writings and exhibitions changed the way historians told the story of postwar art in the U.S., has died. She was 84. Phyllis Tuchman, an art critic and a friend...
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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News Critic, art historian, and curator Barbara Rose, whose pioneering writings and exhibitions...
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More Is Less
Critic Barbara Rose died this past weekend at age eighty-four. To celebrate her memory, we are sharing an interview that originally appeared in our October 2015 issue. Published in Art in America 50...
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ABC Art
Critic Barbara Rose died on December 25 at age eighty-four. We’re sharing the full text of her 1965 essay “ABC Art,” which identified a common sensibility in experimental dance, film, sculpture,...
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