I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.