Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in 1986 it had a midlife crisis and changed its name to the American Craft Museum. Then in 2002 the name changed again, this time to the Museum of Arts and Design. Maybe in 2025 the place will be called the Designatorium. The big problem with a museum of craft and design is that all art has craft and design.