A tour of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the official name of the Berlin Holocaust memorial designed by Peter Eisenman, draws a powerful review from architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff, whose reviews have usually left me cold. But not this time.

By Jan Herman Today, when the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau is recalled with “the mournful whistle of an imaginary [death] train,” the little-known No!Art art of Boris Lurie looms like a signal from the remembered depths. See, for example, his “Red Shit Sculpture” (below), or “Immigrant’s Box”, or “New York-Rumbula” (bottom), or “Bowl of Chains,” or […]

The invitation said, “They’re Old, they’re Cool, they’re Wise, and they all lived on the Lower East Side.” Needless to say, it was not an invitation to Georgie Boy’s inauguration. It was an invitation to a group show, and “they” are octegenarians — Mary Beach, whose 1998 collage “Pepper Head” (right) illustrates the invitation, Taylor […]

Now that David Hockney’s controversial theory about the use of lenses and optical devices by Renaissance painters is being disputed again — this time by computer experts, as reported yesterday by the Sunday Herald in Scotland and today by The New York Times — it may be worth revisiting a lecture he gave on the […]