“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 …

    Nicole Wittenberg makes images that punch you in the face. She says she is working to make paintings that hit “all at once, …

Group shows are usually failures, at least conceptually. Group shows can be a delight, at least aesthetically. Group shows are what are up over the …

As a child I watched Mike Tyson bite off a chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear live on pay-per-view. Anyone can see it online today—the camera …

I think it’s a good sign that art people can be made uncomfortable in the way Genesis Breyer P-Orridge makes them uncomfortable. S/he doesn’t fit …

  Speeding around the Matterhorn, that beautiful fake mountain, in a run-away mining cart, I was thinking of Paul McCarthy. I spent a large part …

  On the “lower most” frontier of the LES galleries is Pocket Utopia, on Henry street, where you can unexpectedly face late 18th century visions …

  Forty-five minutes looking at Rembrandt’s “The Raising of Lazarus” at LACMA. Richard Tuttle once told me he spent hours “creatively looking” at a Caravaggio, …