Concerns quintessentially sculptural have engaged Richard Serra for more than thirty years, although as a young artist in New York in the late 1960s he was strongly affected by the work of a number of contemporary dancers... more

Modernism includes more than art and literature. By now it covers almost the whole of what is truly alive in our culture...more

To some people political art means protest art: slogan-slinging, name-calling, didacticism, an unaesthetic thing...more

Back in late August, as I was about to begin this piece, I read a line in another critic's review of Barbara Kruger's retrospective that convinced me to put off writing about the show for several months...more

1- Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2- Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
3- Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
4- Formal art is essentially rational.
5- Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. ...more