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Recent Posts:

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  • The C-Word: Craft
  • The Six Sins of Joan Mitchell
  • Dada Perfume: A Duchamp Interview
  • Jeff Koons Closes the Whitney
  • Lygia Clark: The Geography of Hagiography
  • St. Gauguin: Trouble in Paradise
  • Futurisms: Can Italian Futurism Be Saved?
  • Afrofuturism Arrives — With Sun Ra!
  • Christopher Wool: Pulling the Wool Over Your Eyes
  • Mike Kelley, Back to School
  • Timepiece: Slow Has Its Moment, Again
  • Chris Burden, Part Two — Boys Will Be Boys
  • Robert Indiana: Love for Sale or The Sign Problem
  • Balthus: Guilty Paintings
  • Lady Gaga Rejected by Marina Abramović, Plus MoMA Sound
  • Glorious Summer: Imran Qureshi, Pat Steir, Ellen Gallagher
  • Warhol plus Beuys: The Bruce
  • Nude Descending a Bookcase: New Duchamp Interviews
  • Gutai: The First Happenings Were Japanese!
  • Roomers: Micro-Housing in the Big Apple
  • The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses
  • An Unkind Cut: Art of Another Kind at the Guggenheim
  • Chelsea Walk: How to Succeed in Art Criticism Without Really Trying.
  • Clyfford Still: In the Still of the Night
  • Cindy Sherman: Against Photography
  • Hirst Hits the Spot
  • EDWIN DICKINSON: BACK FROM THE DEAD
  • ART COPS OCCUPY MOMA!
  • Why Artists Fail: Sherrie Levine and Maurizio Cattelan
  • VAN GOGH MURDERED! WHY ARE AUTHORITIES IN DENIAL?
  • De Kooning Revived: Anger, Amour, Anxiety
  • GAGOSIAN MAD AVE CLOSES. AND OTHER SHUTDOWNS…DALLAS, SPAIN
  • PUBLIC ART COVER-UP! MOCK ART TREND?
  • Fluxness: Mischief Is My Mistress
  • NOT ONE ARTIST GETS GENIUS AWARD THIS YEAR!
  • Just Say No: New Indigenous Australian Art
  • Summer Special: Art Cops Double Feature
  • The Art Cops: Art School Confidential
  • Gustav Metzger: The Remix
  • The Art Cops: Return from L.A. — The Writing on the Wall
  • Richard Serra, Drawing
  • The Art Cops Return: Fluxus Must Die!
  • Ben Patterson Scores: A Modest Proposal
  • Rirkrit Tiravanija: Fear Eats the Soul
  • Glenn Ligon: Words Apart* PLUS ARTOPIA QUIZ!
  • Banksy Loses Bid for Oscar!
  • Steven Siegel: The Sculptor from Planet X
  • Did Art Museums Have a Future?
  • The Decline of Art and Other Visualizations
  • Oliver Herring: Lights, Camera, Action
  • Paul Thek Revised: The Missing Years
  • Old News at the New Museum
  • Ab Ex Redux: Game-Changer or Business as Usual?
  • Praxis at Max’s
  • James Franco: The Artist Who Kissed Sean Penn…and Got Paid for It!
  • Brion Gysin: Bigger Than Life
  • Rafael Ferrer Faces the Music at El Museo
  • Andy Warhol’s Second Act
  • SCIENTIST BERN PORTER QUITS TO BECOME ARTIST!
  • Anne Truitt Vs. Anne Truitt…and Uncle Clem
  • Yves Klein Online…..plus The MoMA Syndrome
  • Lil Picard: Mother Dada
  • Star of Doom: Eastern State Penitentiary…plus J.J. McCracken
  • Marina Abramović: Prisoner of Charisma
  • Not Just the Whitney Biennial
  • Tino Sehgal: Thunder Under the Rotunda
  • Who’s Afraid of Eli Broad?
  • How the West Was Won: Finish Fetish
  • Fakes: Have Replicas Replaced Art?
  • Cenophobia: Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Dan Flavin
  • Man Ray: Name Dropping
  • Cornered: 1969 And All That…. at P.S.1/MoMA
  • Jung’s Secret Book, Aboriginal Paintings, and Mandalas
  • Ken Friedman: Fluxus Prodigy
  • Allan Kaprow: The Retread
  • Fluxus Redux
  • Governors Island: New Haunts for Art
  • Kusamarama: Art and Anxiety (Part II)
  • Francis Bacon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Strike Will Cripple Art Industry in 2010
  • ‘The Pictures Generation’ at the Met
  • Oldenburg at the Whitney
  • Ernesto Neto at the Armory
  • Older Than God
  • Robert Barry: Connect the Dots
  • VOIDS: Nothing Doing at the Pompidou
  • Sacha Kolin: Lives of an Unknown Artist
  • The Martin Kippenberger Caper
  • Judith Bernstein’s Phalluses Revealed: First Artopia Video Blog
  • Poop Art: Manzoni Sono Buoni
  • Tehching Hsieh: Caged Fury
  • On Kawara: Just in Time
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  • Beth Lipman: Smart Glass and Various Time Warps
  • MOCA: WILL IT TANK?
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  • LARRY RIVERS: A CAUTIONARY TALE

John Perreault

I have written about art for a number of years, specializing in first-person art criticism as art critic for the Village Voice, then in the Soho News. I have championed... Read More…

Artopia

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