Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.