FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...
Modern art puzzles many people. It seems to mean so many things and to move in so many directions. It involves paintings still, and some people heave sighs of relief at that. But even painting has ...
It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...