untitled (casement ice) 2010

David Teniers the Younger Duke Leopold Wilhelm in his [own] gallery in Brussels (ca. 1651) We've been through this thing before, and it doesn't go down easier the second time: Another Greek tyco...

Anselm Kiefer le chef d'oeuvre inconnu ("unknown masterpiece") 1982 "This is private property," a gallerista in towering heels shot back. "We're here to sell art." A small group of activists were...

what would David think? Sunday's march up Museum Mile attracted around 400 to 500 people to the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum to demand the return of David Wojnaroowicz's video, "A Fire in My...

I never thought we'd still be doing this 20 years on. The image above is of a thin stenciled sign I held up on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art August 1, 1989. I thought of it as a wor...

The last time we were on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum we were partially rained out, even if it was not quite raining. It was the press preview of the completed first stage of Brothers Mike ...

Continuing their "Action Against Illegal Energy Waste", members of Code Pink returned today to some of the Fifth Avenue stores they had visited July 23rd, once again acting as a part of the interna...

Because I believe so strongly in preserving an interesting building's integrity, and an artist's vision, I find it hard to say this, but what's happening to the building that once housed Fr. Bruce ...

Ipomoea alba I was walking about the West Village this afternoon when I spotted this gorgeous plant garlanding the high metal fence surrounding the lush Jefferson Market Garden. I immediately tho...

Augustus Saint-Gaudens Hiawatha in clay, 1871-1872; this marble carving, 1874, 7 feet 9 inches high, including pedestal [detail] Barry and I were leaving the Metropolitan Museum cafe in the Americ...