Art as Authority (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
from the New York Times, Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin One day in the mid-1980s, Dakis Joannou, a Greek Cypriot industrialist, was exploring the art galleries of the East Village in Manhattan when he came upon a basketball suspended in...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The NYT's Deborah Sontag comes right back with a blog post that reveals the tangled web of (mostly commercial) art world relationships that surround the New Museum. Related: William Powhida's recent drawing on the NuMu situation.
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I'm delighted to see that the NYT's Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin have picked up the New Museum story that MAN has been pushing covering. Here's a quick, linksy roundup of my posts on the issue: MAN's Q&A with New Museum director Lisa Phillips: part one , part two. Response from the Association of Art Museum Directors. Response from the Association of Art Museum Curators. My,...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Among the more unusual passages in yesterday's Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin NYT story on the ethical problems at the New Museum was a quote from Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Campbell: In discussing the New Museum show, several museum leaders cautioned against what Thomas Campbell... described as "overly puritanical" judgments about "the delicate dance"...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This morning's New York Times features a front-page Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin article on a story that MAN has been aggressively covering for six weeks: The New Museum's self-made ethical problems regarding its exhibition of a trustee's collection. ( Click here for a roundup of links to MAN's coverage. Click here for an op-ed I wrote for the current issue of The Art Newspaper.)...
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... page in an article in which I could swear I heard the sound of journalistic pique. The reporters, Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin, pointedly mentioned that New Museum Director Lisa Phillips spoke to them in a phone interview "that she limited to 20 minutes" and that an assistant to Jeff Koons told them that Koons was "too busy to talk to a reporter." As for Joannou, he appeared...
