Email Author Christian Viveros-Faune

2010 Stories by Christian Viveros-Faune

• Peter Saul's Thrilling Tastelessness

  published December 8, 2010

  A funny thing happened as I legged it around Peter Saul's tidy, intensely powerful, history-charting retrospective at Haunch of Venison—I... More >>

• Luc Tuymans Gets Down to Business

  published November 10, 2010

  There are ways in which Belgian painter Luc Tuymans very much resembles Julian Assange, the embattled, secretive honcho of WikiLeaks. Both men... More >>

• Return of the Dick—Jeff Koons's Porn Pictures

  published October 13, 2010

  Death, taxes, and Jeff Koons. It's impossible to avoid reaching for the word "inevitable" when considering the ubiquity of the hardest-working... More >>

• Sarah Sze's Return of the Real

  published September 29, 2010

  Stuck between a recession and a recovery, the art world is predictably game for eating and hoarding cake, too. A perfect example of the current... More >>

• Andy Warhol's Piss Paintings Aren't Exactly Number One

  published September 1, 2010

  The figure of Andy Warhol, like Jesus, has come to mean many different things to lots of people. An empty screen onto which generations of arty... More >>

• Our Roundtable on Bravo's Art Reality Show

  published August 4, 2010

  What began a year ago as a rumor of an unnamed TV program about art became Bravo's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. By far the most... More >>

• Rineke Dijkstra's Kids Kid You Not

  published July 13, 2010

  Rineke Dijkstra—the justly celebrated Dutch artist whose ripe new work graces Marian Goodman Gallery—makes very ordinary young... More >>

• James Hyde, Richard Hughes, and the Artists of 'Homunculi' Are the Buoys of Summer

  published June 15, 2010

  A shadow of anxiety has crossed the smiling, placid face of museum culture in New York. Despite the milestone of having added the medium of... More >>

• P.S.1's 'Greater New York 2010' Is Worse Than the Biennial

  published June 1, 2010

  The history of ideas is often the history of their displacement. In our own time, cell phones turned pay phones obsolete, cable news made... More >>

• Chris Verene Welcomes You to Another America

  published May 11, 2010

  Cultural theory, Terry Eagleton wrote in his revisionist scorcher After Theory, once promised to grapple with folks' most important... More >>

• Go Figure: Jules de Balincourt's "Premonitions"

  published April 13, 2010

  About seven years ago—just in time to kick off the art boom—a kind of get-rich-quick, end-of-history painting for the Bush era... More >>

• A Guide to Jeff Koons's "Skin Fruit" New Museum Sausage Party

  published March 24, 2010

  Welcome to "Skin Fruit," the much-anticipated, endlessly blogged-about, Jeff Koons­–curated exhibition at the New Museum. The opening... More >>

• Fourteen Works By Eva Hesse See the Light of Day

  published March 24, 2010

  A perfect antidote to Jeff Koons's commodities-trader-turned-artist-turned-curator extravaganza is an exhibition of 14 never-before-seen works... More >>

• Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial

  published March 2, 2010

  The Whitney Biennial could not have come at a worse time. Rarely has the nation—never mind the art world—lolled around in such a... More >>

• Steve McQueen Rides a Dead Horse at Marian Goodman

  published February 2, 2010

  Back in the time of cathode-ray tubes, video art was the province of the boring, the grainily obscure, and the documentary. Then came certain... More >>

• David Zwirner's 'Primary Atmospheres' Is California Sweet

  published January 26, 2010

  Minimal art—let's face it—is a bore. With all the cheerfulness of a leper's bell, it proposes that its preachy abstemiousness is... More >>