Five years ago today Barry and I launched the first version of the ArtCat Calendar (then called ArtCal). It was an outgrowth of the messy lists I used to make on a lined pad (yeah, paper) and car...

HOMU is out, and the director is in. We've just received word that the continually enthralling, yet characteristically elusive HOMU booth will be out and about today, Tuesday, on West 20th Street ...

Honoré Daumier Le Membre de toutes les Académies [Member of All the Academies] 1842 lithograph 9.5" x 7.75" (sheet) We're "Art Moralists", according to the headline above Jerry Saltz's second New ...

In the second of the New Museum's public forum series of monthly seminars, "Propositions", Nikhil Chopra presented a three-part lecture/performance over the weekend, delivering "Yog Raj Chitrakar a...

detail of Nikil Chopra's enormous charcoal mural drawn en plein air on Ellis Island last week Barry and I returned to the New Museum on Sunday to witness the conclusion of Nikhil Chopra's performa...

Anselm Kiefer Deutschlands Geisteshelden (Germany’s Spiritual Heroes) 1973 oil and charcoal on burlap, mounted on canvas 121" x 268.5" Still a home for Dichter und Denker Schicksalstag. Five maj...

Nikhil Chopra settled into his temporary home in the lobby-level Glass Gallery at the New Museum on Wednesday. Ever since the opening of the new building almost two years ago I've heard and read m...

Alma Thomas Watusi (Hard Edge) 1963 acrylic on canvas 47.5" x 44.25" I thought it was a joke, but the story seems to be true. The Painting by Alma Thomas, one of the 45 artworks the Obamas chose...

The White House switchboard lit up with calls from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s emissaries several weeks ago with a message that was polite but firm: The mayor is going to win re-election, they sai...

go to large, high resolution image here Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, especially if it's been drawn by William Powhida. The artist's editorial cartoon, addressing the curr...