Is the New Museum Slipping? The biennial problem is perennial. The Whitney Biennial has been difficult to deal with for years, so now as punishment for our art sins, the New Museum will offer another survey of "new" art every three years. The Whitney has already complicated and partially reformed its offerings by going … [Read more...]
Robert Barry: Connect the Dots
April 8, 2009 by John Perreault
The New Art History Blessed with hindsight, it is now quite clear that in the late '60s the big question in art was how to include content without compromising abstraction. Pop was too popular, offering the spectacle that the critique far too easily became that which was being attacked. Celebration during the Vietnam War was untenable. Yet immediate art-world forefathers (women did not yet … [Read more...]
