Man of Action
A new biography of the midcentury critic Harold Rosenberg offers an unconvincing case for his reappraisal.
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Notes on Gesture
Warhol pushed art into life until they permeated each other completely, then he financialized the mix in turn.
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Vasari Diary: Philippe Costamagna’s ‘The Eye,’ Barbara Rose on Greenberg, and Roger Ballen
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.
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Then and Now: Reaching for the Stars, Artists Capture and Replicate the Awe-Inspiring and the Invisible
From George Inness, who “translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour,” to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like “voices of aspiration, joy or fear,” to Jackson Pollock, who…
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You Can Always Go Downtown: The Lower Manhattan Art World Through the Years
Given the whirlwind of geographic and conceptual changes in contemporary-art landscape, we couldn’t help doing some serious navel-gazing (especially in light of the upcoming “Inventing Downtown…
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True to Life: Elaine de Kooning on Stuart Davis, in 1957
With the Whitney Museum opening a massive, 100-work Stuart Davis retrospective, we turn back to the April 1957 issue of ARTnews, in which Elaine de Kooning reviewed a different retrospective, at…
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A Still Is a Still Is a Still . . . Still: Clyfford Still’s Replicas
Inspired by a rare opportunity to acquire iconic Clyfford Still paintings, buyers made headlines in 2011 when Sotheby’s auctioned four Still canvases for $114 million, nearly twice the…
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The Key to Understanding John Cage’s Silent Piece at MoMA
A starkly empty drawing is the centerpiece of a Museum of Modern Art exhibition that explores John Cage's world-altering role in the creation and development of postmodernism
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Let It Bleed: The Frightening Scene on the Met’s Roof
A history of violence resonates in Imran Qureshi's massive rooftop painting at the Metropolitan Museum, and in other shows by Benny Andrews, Nancy Spero, and more
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Top Ten ARTnews Stories: ‘Not a Picture but an Event’
Coining the term "Action Painting," Harold Rosenberg put the name on the style that made New York the capital of the art world.
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