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SABBATH’S DAYS
by Joe Fyfe
Aug. 19, 2009
A few years back, when a selection of Zak Smith’s work was in its first museum exhibition, I approached several art magazines about writing a feature on him. I had been writing for both publications, but they took a pass. I wondered why. Could it be his employment as a porn actor, which had recently become public knowledge? Smith is represented in a number of prestigious institutional collections, and gets plenty of press and attention (and does very good interviews), but has received little critical analysis.
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Aug. 19, 2009
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SABBATH’S DAYS
by Joe Fyfe
Zak Smith’s We Did Porn (TinHouse Books).
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Mar. 26, 2008
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Gimme Shelterby James Croak The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture.
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Nov. 14, 2008
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OPPOSITE SECTSby Robert Moeller Two new books, on Women Collectors and the Circus.
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Oct. 27, 2008
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PARTY READINGby Deborah Ripley The New York Art Book Fair revives an antiquarian field.
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Aug. 15, 2008
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LOVE AND LOSSby Charlie Finch A review of Peter Schjeldahl’s new collection of art criticism, Let’s See.
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July 30, 2008
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ANONYMOUS IS A PHOTOGRAPHERby Robert Moeller In three recent books, ordinary people as photographers and as photographic subject.
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July 23, 2008
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BEHIND THE SCENESby Andrew Decker Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art Worldlays bare the workings of contemporary art.
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June 10, 2008
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BOOK REPORTby Walter Robinson Art & Today, Great Collectors of Our Time, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Gary Panter, and Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruzalta.
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Oct. 5, 2007
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THE LAST SENSUALISTSby Michèle C. Cone Death and eroticism in the new masculinity of the 1920s.
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Sept. 7, 2007
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DARKNESS VISIBLEby Charlie Finch On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.
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Dec. 20, 2006
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BOOK REPORT
by Walter Robinson
Notable new titles, in time for the gift-giving season.
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Nov. 8, 2006
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OWNING ART
by Jane Finigan
Louisa Buck and Judith Greer team up on a new handbook for the contemporary art collector.
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Oct. 16, 2006
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MURAKAMI’S GUIDE TO SUCCESS
by Kay Itoi
Japan’s million-dollar man explains how he got rich by appealing to Western taste.
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Oct. 4, 2006
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CULTURE AND RESISTANCE
by P.C. Smith
Photojournalist Jonathan Moller documents genocide and reconciliation in Guatemala.
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Aug. 11, 2006
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BOOK REPORT
by Abraham Orden
Essay collections by John Updike and Lawrence Rinder.
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July 21, 2006
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THE SCENE CHANGES
by Peter Plagens
Jed Perl’s New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century.
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Feb. 22, 2006
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PERILS OF PUBLISHING
by John A. Walker
A memoir of the late British artist John Latham, who destroyed books as his art form.
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Dec. 8, 2005
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Combat Zone
by Stephen Maine
Art criticism as a contact sport, via Jed Perl’s New Art City.
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Sept. 8, 2005
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Book Report
by Walter Robinson
Art in North Korea, snapshots in Nazi Germany, more.
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Visible Flaws
by Ben Davis
Art theorist W.J.T. Mitchell's What Do Pictures Want?
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January 13, 2005
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AMBLING FAMILY
by Brian Riley
Poet Bob Holman collaborates with Chuck Close.
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January 11, 2005
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BOOK REPORT
by Nicole Davis
Ten new art books from presses large and small.
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