John Currin

Art Fall Picks 2013

The Whitney Finds the Good Thing About the '80s

"NYC 1993": The New Museum Takes Us Right Here, Right Then

Nontrivial pursuits, 1990s edition

De Kooning Is De King at MOMA

Two Voice critics tackle the painter's big retrospective

Luc Tuymans Gets Down to Business

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

Go Figure: Jules de Balincourt's "Premonitions"

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

The Decade's Best Art

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

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 >>

Female Trouble: Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman

Two veteran artists offer two very different visions of women

BEAUTIFUL STRANGE

An exhibit where beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Digital Vandalism at Shafrazi Gallery

Too bad you missed the Guernica cake

Vapid Transit

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

The Anxiety of Influence

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

From Pop to Poop

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

Wiped Out

Currin Events

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

Female Trouble

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

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?

Inky Depths

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

A Fatwa of Her Own

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

Misfire

Hammered

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

Dire Diary

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

Super Babylon

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

Reaction Shot

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

Of Friendsters and Foes

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

Agent Provocateur

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

At the Crossroads

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

I, Narcissist

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

Borderline Cases

When Bad Painting Is Good for You

Off the Wall

An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

Good on Paper

Naughty, Naughty

A World Apart

History Painting

Ten Years After

The Art World Now and Then

Insider Out

Hello, Hello Brazil

A Showstopping Carnival of Art Heats Up the City

Cover Me

Tit for Tat

Stop Making Sense

Art & Entertainment

Bring In the Clowns

Bad Art Has Never Looked So Good

My Sixth Sense

Painting.com

The Redemption of a Breast Man

Hungry Hearts

A Romp Through the Fall Art Season

No Sex Please, We're Artistic

A group show in Connecticut gets a G rating.

Heat Seekers

Purple Nipple