- March 8, 1999
- Maximal Minimalist
Long seen as a father of Minimalism, the sculptor Ronald Bladen looks more and more like something else entirely.
- December 15, 2003
- Cleverland
In the candied world of John Currin, the irreverence—toward the old masters, toward modern-day sexual attitudes—is risk-free.
- June 21, 2004
- Tables d'Haute
At the Met, the beautiful—and unabashedly elitist—furniture of Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Art Deco’s greatest designer.
- February 24, 2003
- The Two Towers
Picasso and Matisse, evenly matched juggernauts of twentieth-century art, face off in Queens—and the answer to the question “Who wins?” may surprise you.
- November 17, 2003
- Dress Reversal
A show that has legs—lots of them—looks at what the changing nature of men’s clothing can reveal about the guys who wear it.
- April 18, 2005
- Toxic Cuteness
At the Japan Society’s “Little Boy,” Hiroshima leads directly to Hello Kitty.
- September 22, 2003
- Zen and Now
An artist whose witty Conceptual gems from the Vietnam era to the present transcend the merely absurd to reveal deeper truths.
- October 18, 2004
- Bohemians at the Gate
Authorities closed down a show at JFK’s grand, shuttered TWA terminal after the opening got out of hand. Too bad: The building alone is worth a visit.
- May 26, 2003
- Soho on the Hudson
With its new space in a retrofitted 75-year-old factory in Beacon, New York, Dia takes sixties-style minimalism beyond Manhattan.
- September 28, 1998
- The Great Mall?
Examining the old iconography of Communism and the consumerist images that are replacing it, artists from an evolving China find some common ground.

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