One year ago on my birthday I tried to define “art” for Carter Ratcliff’s guest editorship of The Brooklyn Rail “What is Art—Why Even Ask?” …

  We’re all used to limp conversations about “practice” which can mean anything to anyone without marble-plinthed pressure. As a student I used to think …

I escaped New York City just before the art fairs hit. At the moment I would rather crawl over ground glass than endure an art …

  The glamorous “L” of L&M Arts has just opened the first show of her new eponymous gallery Dominique Lévy, in a beautiful building at …

  “Each period has its peculiar image of man” said theologian Paul Tillich at the beginning of his essay for the Museum of Modern Art …

    No spatially sensitive person can bear to be in the Museum of Modern art, at least I can’t. The spaces are designed to …

    I am convinced that White Snow is one of the great works of our century, as sprawling, multivalent and rich as the novels …

“A frivolity that refuses to take seriously things which are not serious can be profound,” said Auden, something I thought about when face-to-face with Elizabeth …