"this is a monument" This figure darkens the doorway of a temporary construction shed on the south side of West 26th Street.

These crocus guys have been livening up our garden for a week or so already. Yes, the little trifoliate leaflets around them belong to our local frais de bois.

William Hogarth Enthusiasm Delineated 1761 This is stupid, if not just evil. No, I'm not talking about Eliot Spitzer. Let him deal with his family; it's not our concern. People are screaming a...

When it comes to something like the Whitney Biennial, or for that matter the siren of any large display of contemporary art, whether a museum survey, an art fair or even a small-budget benefit, I l...

In 2003 nearly a million people marched in the streets of New York against a war (to which the majority of the country was opposed even then) only days before it began and the U.S. press hardly men...

Drill Hall floor of the Armory Drill Hall vault of the Armory We were at the press preview for the Whitney Biennial this afternoon. This year the venue has been expanded to include the Seventh ...

"Certainly the prestige of the office of president must be seriously compromised if a woman has a serious shot at it." I would add "or a black man" to that conditional clause, but the subject of t...

portrait of Kurt Cobain, by an anonymous artist, from a collection of paintings on velvet Yasser Aggour's photographs of portraits commissioned of Cairo sign painters detail of a section of Jen...

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's re-enactment of "Licked Room" 2000 by Ene-Liis Semper Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's re-enactment of "The Artist's Kiss [Le Baiser De L'artiste]" (1977) by Orlan Lilibe...

Louis C. Tiffany window in the Library of the Armory I've been walking through the front doors of the Administration Building of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue for decades, but until t...