Three Predictions About the Near Future of Art

Burning police cars, anyone?

By Christian Viveros-Faune

Let's begin by admitting the obvious. Art critics—like presidents, accountants, and property developers—have no business making... More >>

Damien Hirst (1965–2012): In Memoriam

Gagosian Gallery hosts a display of the late artist's spot paintings

By Christian Viveros-Faune

Damien Steven Hirst, the world's richest artist ($332 million according to Britain's Sunday Times), full-time businessman, part time... More >>

James Brooks and Dan Flavin at Greenberg Van Doren

Plus, Ray Parker at Washburn; Cinthia Marcelle at Galerie Lelong; and Dawn Clements at Pierogi

By R.C. Baker

Although the CliffsNotes version of postwar American art trumpets the antagonism between macho abstract expressionists and later generations of... More >>

The Best NYC Art Shows of 2011

Three Voice critics name their favorites from the past year

By R. C. Baker, Robert Shuster and Christian Viveros-Faune

OK, folks—here you go. The top NYC art shows that happened in 2011, selected by three of our ever-discerning art writers. R.C.... More >>

2011's Best Comics and Graphic Novels

From cheesecake to wastelands to goth colonials

By R. C. Baker

Arguing over who rates as the greatest painter of all time is a mug's game, with candidates scattered across millennia and continents. Comic-book... More >>

Robert Heinecken: The Anti Ad Man

Hey there, consumer! Welcome to your world.

By Christian Viveros-Faune

Few American photographers are as influential as Robert Heinecken, yet the man rarely picked up a camera. The late artist—whose... More >>

The Brooklyn Museum Hosts 'Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture'

A show that made 'em mad in D.C. comes to town

By Christian Viveros-Faune

As everyone knows, there is a world of difference between looking and seeing. When free-thought opponents like the Catholic bishop of Brooklyn... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

By Alexis Soloski

Film Feeling less than delighted about your New Year's plans? Chances are they aren't as grim as Charlie Chaplin's. In its 1925 review, the New... More >>

Sherrie Levine's "Mayhem": Walker Evans Irked Again

The Whitney mounts a big survey of work by the noted Appropriation artist

By Martha Schwendener

Sherrie Levine's "Mayhem," a survey of her work since 1980 at the Whitney Museum, might have read differently a year ago. The nihilism of her... More >>

Claire Fontaine's "Working Together": Cheek vs. Chic

A mini-collective sets up shop at Metro Pictures

By James Hannaham

There is no Claire Fontaine—rather, she’s a collective named for a French notebook company and composed of two Paris-based artists,... More >>

Best in Show: Lee Bontecou at Freedman Art

Plus: Sue de Beer at the High Line; Eija-Liisa Ahtila at Marian Goodman

By Robert Shuster

For more than half a century, Lee Bontecou has been peering into the cosmos. Her famously imposing three-dimensional vortexes of the early... More >>

The Someday Funnies: Comics Interruptus

Michel Choquette's treasure trove of '60s cartooning finally hits print

By R.C Baker

Arriving four decades after its initial assembly by comedy writer and performer Michel Choquette, The Someday Funnies brings together 129 comic... More >>

Steven Heller Doesn't Need Your Matisse

From Screw to SVA and beyond—a visit with the New York design writer

By Julia Cooke

There's a bookcase in the studio apartment that author Steven Heller rents as a kind of storage closet for his overflowing collection of design... More >>

What Does Occupy Wall Street Mean For Art?

By Martha Schwendener

What can art learn from Occupy Wall Street? I speak only for myself, but I'll tell you what I've learned. Several days into the occupation, I... More >>

'Tune in Screening: Psychedelic Moving Images From Socialist Yugoslavia 1966-1976'

Cold War films of desperate abandon

By R.C Baker

Post-World War II Yugoslavia threaded a Cold War needle between the Soviet Union’s Communist hardliners and the West’s hedonistic... More >>

Best in Show: Aldo Tambellini at Chelsea Art Museum

Plus: Leandro Erlich at Sean Kelly; “Boundaries Obscured” at Haunch of Venison

By Robert Shuster

Apocalyptic, mystical, and almost always black, the art of multimedia visionary Aldo Tambellini—collected here in a marvelous retrospective... More >>

Boom, Bubble, Bust: Matthew Barney + Jenny Saville + Mickalene Thomas

New York goes retread. But maybe there's a little hope

By Christian Viveros-Faune

We have, the historian Jacques Barzun told us back in the 1980s, the culture we deserve. But perhaps it would be more accurate to say we have the... More >>

De Kooning Is De King at MOMA

Two Voice critics tackle the painter's big retrospective

By Martha Schwendener and R. C. Baker

Even after the carnage of World War II, Europe still looked down on their boisterous American savior as culturally backward. But Abstract... More >>

"The Black Power Mixtape" + Christopher D'Arcangelo + Fluxus

Revolution! Anarchy! Retrospectives! Three shows look back at politics in art

By Martha Schwendener

It has been said that the '60s were about revolution and the '70s about anarchy. You could make the case for this, based on British pop... More >>