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John Currin

  • Art

    September 28, 2011

    De Kooning Is De King at MOMA

    Two Voice critics tackle the painter's big retrospective

  • Art

    November 10, 2010

    Luc Tuymans Gets Down to Business

    David Zwirner hosts the artist's new show, 'Corporate'

  • Art

    April 13, 2010

    Go Figure: Jules de Balincourt's "Premonitions"

    A new painting show helps Jeffrey Deitch say goodbye to New York

  • Art

    December 22, 2009

    The Decade's Best Art

    The most important artists were those who made the biggest impact on other artists

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Bea Arthur's Boobies

    This eye popping 1991 artwork by John Currin was unearthed by my friend Vodka Stinger in a random google image search of late Golden Girl Beatrice Arthur. I have no idea why Bea's knockers are hanging out in the painting, but I'm glad they never did a similar portrait of Abe Vigoda. If that's not e ... More >>

  • Art

    December 10, 2008

    Female Trouble: Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman

    Two veteran artists offer two very different visions of women

  • Voice Choices

    August 12, 2008

    BEAUTIFUL STRANGE

    An exhibit where beauty is in the eye of the beholder

  • Art

    June 3, 2008

    Digital Vandalism at Shafrazi Gallery

    Too bad you missed the Guernica cake

  • Art

    October 30, 2007

    Vapid Transit

    'The Incomplete' reveals an art generation amusing itself into obsolescence

  • Art

    August 14, 2007

    The Anxiety of Influence

    MOMA does its reputation—and utopian wealth of material—a grave disservice. Again.

  • Art

    August 7, 2007

    From Pop to Poop

    Lights on, lights off-—Turner-winning conceptualist Martin Creed gets a major U.S. retrospective

  • Art

    December 12, 2006

    Wiped Out

    Lights on, lights off-—Turner-winning conceptualist Martin Creed gets a major U.S. retrospective

  • Art

    December 5, 2006

    Currin Events

    Money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism, and the inner life of paintings

  • Art

    November 7, 2006

    Female Trouble

    A plea for an art-world star to return to her dirty-secret past

  • Art

    January 10, 2006

    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Artist

    If there's no iconic image, does an artist's work risk becoming fuzzy in the mind?

  • Art

    December 27, 2005

    Inky Depths

    Francesco Clemente, Jasper Johns, Kara Walker, John Currin, and other friends of Dorothy

  • Art

    November 15, 2005

    A Fatwa of Her Own

    The holocaust lives in Ben-Tor's raw, cutting work

  • Art

    November 15, 2005

    Misfire

    The holocaust lives in Ben-Tor's raw, cutting work

  • Art

    May 24, 2005

    Hammered

    Auctions are like stripteases, relying on the audience being enticed by what’s out of reach

  • Art

    April 19, 2005

    Dire Diary

    The gushy artforum.com items read like the Us magazine of art criticism

  • Art

    September 7, 2004

    Super Babylon

    As a new season begins, our critic examines the New York art world's Super Paradigm

  • Art

    February 3, 2004

    Reaction Shot

    Crackerjack craftsmanship aside, does Currin's Whitney show live up to the critical hype?

  • News

    December 9, 2003

    Of Friendsters and Foes

    The conspiracy art of Mark Lombardi: Crime-fighting tool—or 'just here to help'?

  • Art

    November 25, 2003

    Agent Provocateur

    Currin's retro prompts a reassessment of an artist who may be 'our premier mannerist'

  • Art

    October 7, 2003

    At the Crossroads

    Under a new director, will the Whitney's future be brighter than its recent past?

  • NYC Life

    September 9, 2003

    I, Narcissist

    Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

  • Art

    May 27, 2003

    Lewd Awakening

    Rediscovering a German Connoisseur of Sex

  • Art

    April 22, 2003

    Borderline Cases

    When Bad Painting Is Good for You

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Off the Wall

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Art

    October 29, 2002

    Good on Paper

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Art

    October 22, 2002

    Carpe Diem

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Art

    September 17, 2002

    Naughty, Naughty

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Art

    May 7, 2002

    A World Apart

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Art

    November 27, 2001

    History Painting

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Art

    November 20, 2001

    Ten Years After

    The Art World Now and Then

  • Art

    October 23, 2001

    Insider Out

    The Art World Now and Then

  • Art

    September 25, 2001

    Keeping the Faith

    When Everything Changes, What Happens to Art?

  • NYC Life

    September 4, 2001

    Hello, Hello Brazil

    A Showstopping Carnival of Art Heats Up the City

  • Art

    June 19, 2001

    Cover Me

    A Showstopping Carnival of Art Heats Up the City

  • Art

    January 23, 2001

    Tit for Tat

    A Showstopping Carnival of Art Heats Up the City

  • Art

    January 2, 2001

    Stop Making Sense

    A Showstopping Carnival of Art Heats Up the City

  • Art

    November 28, 2000

    Art & Entertainment

    Bring In the Clowns

  • Art

    April 25, 2000
  • Art

    March 28, 2000

    My Sixth Sense

    Bring In the Clowns

  • Art

    February 8, 2000

    Painting.com

    Bring In the Clowns

  • Art

    November 16, 1999
  • Art

    September 7, 1999

    Hungry Hearts

    A Romp Through the Fall Art Season

  • Art

    August 17, 1999

    No Sex Please, We're Artistic

    A group show in Connecticut gets a G rating.

  • Art

    February 2, 1999

    Heat Seekers

    A group show in Connecticut gets a G rating.

  • Art

    September 29, 1998

    Purple Nipple

    A group show in Connecticut gets a G rating.

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