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Art Critique Is Still A Hazy Shade of Writing
November 10, 2016
On Books: A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern
(Kirk Varnedoe), New Art Examiner, Jan. 1991, p. 53.
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Jason Edward Kaufman is an art historian and critic with expertise in museums and the international art world.
A complete list of past articles is available here.
Archive
2010 (1)
- Gary Tinterow and Modern Art at the Metropolitan
August 26, 2010, 1:16 am
Gary Tinterow’s Contemporary Art Agenda for the Metropolitan Museum
In a wide-ranging interview, the chief curator of modern and contemporary art discusses collection sharing, acquisitions strategy, renovation of the Wallace Wing, negotiations to lease the Whitney’s Breuer building, and more.
2016 (360)
- Corcoran Hires Consultants – Kaufman – InView
Corcoran Hires Outside Consultants to Shape its Identity
The struggling institution is selling property and seeking a new vision for its future.
The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. - Curator Values – Kaufman – InView
What Should Artists and Critics Urgently Care About?
In his review of the Whitney’s “Off the Wall, Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions” exhibitions, Ken Johnson writes in the NYT:
Andy Warhol's Dance Diagram, 1962. Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica.
- Getty Leadership Structure – Kaufman – Los Angeles Times
“Should the Getty merge its president and museum director positions?”, Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2010
With both jobs now unfilled, some are calling for the leadership roles to be consolidated. Doing so would be a mistake, but the Getty should work to resolve conflicts between the two posts.
By Jason Edward Kaufman
- Hendrick Ter Brugghen – Kaufman – Washington Post
“At National Gallery, two paintings by one Dutch master add up to a sublime exhibition,” The Washington Post, February 19, 2011;
By Jason Edward Kaufman
- J.A.M. Whistler – Kaufman – Baltimore Sun
“Whistler is Still Drawing Us,” The Baltimore Sun, April 12, 2003, p.
By Jason Edward Kaufman
- Kirk Varnedoe on Jasper Johns
“Jasper Johns: more than the slayer of Abstract Expressionist giants,” The Art Newspaper, Oct. 1, 1996 (Issue 63), pp. 16-17.
By Jason Edward Kaufman
For the past two decades we have seen bits and pieces of Johns's career. At last, the Museum of Modern Art is presenting him whole. The result is an oeuvre far greater than the sum of its proto-Pop, Minimalist, and Conceptualist parts
- Monet – Kaufman – Washington Post
Sunday, Final Edition
“Thoroughly Modern Monet at Boston's Fine Arts,” The Washington Post, October 25, 1998, P. G05.
By Jason Edward Kaufman
- Norman Rockwell – Kaufman – Baltimore Sun
“Rockwell rides a wave of patriotism,” The Baltimore Sun, January 27, 2002, p. 8E
The artist's comforting vision is now on display at the Guggenheim, an unsettling turn of events.
By Jason Edward Kaufman
- Odilon Redon – Kaufman – Washington Post
“Redon Reconsidered; In Chicago, the First Major U.S. Retrospective of the Artist's Works,” The Washington Post, Jul 31, 1994, p. G.06
By Jason Edward Kaufman
- “The greatest Anglophile of them all” [Profile of Paul Mellon]
“Celebrating the greatest Anglophile of them all,” The Art Newspaper, April 1, 2007 (Issue 179), pp. 42-43.
Museums in the US and UK pay tribute to Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor, in the centenary of his birth
By Jason Edward Kaufman
View Publication PDF - Renaissance Women Portraits – Kaufman – Baltimore Sun
“Lovely, misleading Renaissance visions” (Renaissance portraits of women at National Gallery), The Baltimore Sun, Dec. 16, 2001, p. 2E.
Portraits enchant the viewer but fail to suggest the difficulties of women's lives.
By Jason Edward Kaufman
- Rob Storr at MoMA Interview – Kaufman – The Art Newspaper
Interview with Robert Storr, curator in The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture, at MoMA, NYC, November 22, 1993, by Jason Edward Kaufman.
This is the unedited text of an interview that appeared in The Art Newspaper, March 1, 1994 (Issue 36):.
- Rothschild Affair – Kaufman – Wall Street Journal
"The Rothschild Affair: A Test of Austria's Conscience," The Wall Street Journal,
July 6, 1999, p. A13.
Rothschild treasures leave Austrian museums and head for the auction block
by Jason Edward Kaufman
- Stuart Davis – Kaufman – World &I
“Stuart Davis: American Modernist,” The World & I, April 1992, pp. 196-201.
by Jason Edward Kaufman
- Action Painting – Kaufman – American Scholar
What the Mind’s Eye Sees
Action painters were postwar exemplars of American individualism
Jason Edward Kaufman - Sonia Gechtoff Retrospective: Intriguing Geometric Landscapes and Georgia’s ‘New South Group’ at Exhibition Space
New York City Tribune, Sept. 30, 1987, pp. 14, 10.
- A Show for Connoisseurs: Cezanne’s Basel Sketchbooks
New York City Tribune, Mar. 28, 1988, pp. 14, 10.
- Picasso and Braque: Mano a Mano [“Pioneering Cubism” at MoMA]
The World and I, Oct. 1989, pp. 278-83.
- Splendor of `The Feast of the Gods’ Is Restored [Giovanni Bellini]
New York City Tribune, Mar. 19, 1990, p. 14.
- Pawnshops and Palaces: The Fall and Rise of the Campana Art Museum [Review of book by Helen and Albert Borowitz]
The Journal of Art, Oct. 1991, p. 71.
- Fine Disregard for Modernism [Review of A Fine Disregard, by Kirk Varnedoe]
American Arts Quarterly, Winter 1991, pp. 29-31.
- A major private museum of Impressionism and Greek art for Athens (The Goulandris Foundation: Architect of Louvre pyramid, I.M. Pei, is its designer)
(Interview with I.M. Pei), The Art Newspaper, Feb. 1994, pp. 9-10.
- “I still believe in the hand of the artist” [Eugene V. Thaw interview]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 1994, p. 24-25.
- Corporations favour political correctness (USA) [The International Scene: Sponsorship and Corporate Collecting]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 1994, p. VIII.
- American Indians get their due [Smithsonian Institution opens National Museum of the American Indian]
The Art Newspaper, Nov. 1994, p. 13.
- Giacometti at Acquavella (New York: Distinguished lenders involved)
The Art Newspaper, Nov. 1994, p. 33.
- Skid-row revived by culture and commerce [San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center]
The Art Newspaper, Jan. 1995, p. 8.
- Kandinskij: ricomposte le ‘Composizioni’ [Kandinsky: The “Compositions” recomposed] [MoMA exhibition]
Il Giornale dell'Arte, Feb. 1995, p. 10.
- Celant cura i clonati di Oldenburg [Celant curates Oldenburg’s clones]
Il Giornale dell'Arte, Feb. 1995, p. 9.
- Realism in the Abstract Age
The Spirit and the Flesh: Contemporary American Realists (ISBN: 0-9642900-3-1), catalogue accompanying an exhibition of that name held at Oglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, October 15 – December 28, 1995.
- Enamels of Limoges: victims of their own success [Metropolitan Museum and Louvre exhibitions]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 1995, p. 8.
- Edvard Munch, yes: Harald Sohlberg, who [National Academy of Design, NY exhibition]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 1995, p. 9.
- A new museum seeks to disclose the secret language of design [Interview: Mitchell Wolfson, Miami]
The Art Newspaper, Nov. 1995, p. 18.
- Il sensuale ermetismo di Hodgkin [The sensual hermeticism of Hodgkin] [Exhibit at Metropolitan Museum]
Il Giornale dell'arte, Dec. 1995, p. 16.
- We’ve impounded these fakes now we’re selling them [US government sells Dali forgeries]
The Art Newspaper, Dec. 1995, p. 1.
- Venetian Splendours in Minneapolis [MFA Budapest loan exhibition]
The Art Newspaper,Dec. 1995, p. 11.
- Who are the richest and most generous of them all [Private gifts to US museums]
The Art Newspaper, Dec. 1995, p. 13.
- Venetian Splendours in Minneapolis [MFA Budapest loan exhibition]
The Art Newspaper, Dec. 1995, p. 11.
- Lend us your Old Masters and antiquities [Knight-Pew collection sharing program]
The Art Newspaper, Jan. 1996, p. 16.
- A look inside the new Outsider Art Museum (Boston) [sic., Baltimore]
The Art Newspaper, Feb. 1996, p. 11.
- Guerra fredda e arte che scotta: sul mercato la Cia va come una spia [Norton Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Museum]
Il Giornale dell'arte, Mar. 1996, p. 26.
- Art down on the farm [Meyerhoff Collection at the National Gallery of Art]
The Art Newspaper, Apr. 1996, p. 10.
- An arts lottery for America [Congress plans to kill NEA and NEH]
The Art Newspaper, May 1996, pp. 1, 8.
- Guggenheim goes virtual (Deutsche Telekom backs high-tech installations at the struggling SoHo branch)
The Art Newspaper, May 1996, p. 17.
- An Englishman for Los Angeles [Graham W. J. Beal named director of LACMA]
The Art Newspaper, May 1996, p. 18.
- Are you asking me what art is? [Interview: Chicago MCA chairman Allen M. Turner]
The Art Newspaper, May 1996, p. 40.
- Havemeyer legacy to be sold off by Sotheby’s [Shelburne Museum deaccessions]
The Art Newspaper, June 1996, p. 15.
- Very popular post-Glasnost Chagall [Exhibition at Jewish Museum, NY]
The Art Newspaper, June 1996, p. 8.
- Deep, edgy stuff in $5 million gift to MoMA [Elaine Dannheisser donation]
The Art Newspaper, June 1996, p. 17.
- The credit card comes to the aid of culture [AmEx funds World Monuments Watch]
The Art Newspaper, June 1996, p. 26.
- How to make money in contemporary art perhaps [Review: Polsky’s Art Market Guide]
The Art Newspaper, June 1996, p. 29.
- Chicago joue dans la cour des grands: Ouverture du nouveau Museum of Contemporary Art
Le Journal des Arts, June 1996, p. 29.
- Un musee americain vend des Degas et des Manet [Shelburne Museum deaccessions]
Le Journal des Arts, July-Aug. 1996, p. 45.
- Getty sticks with antiquities [Getty antiquities policy]
The Art Newspaper, July-Aug. 1996, pp. 1, 17.
- Doria Pamphilj treasures visit America [Interview: Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj on National Gallery of Art exhibition]
The Art Newspaper, July-Aug. 1996, p. 12.
- Olmec art by secret convoy [National Gallery of Art exhibition]
The Art Newspaper, July-Aug. 1996, p. 10.
- Regain d’espoir au Lacma [Renewal of hope at LACMA] [Graham Beal named director]
Le Journal des Arts, July-Aug. 1996, p. 20.
- Ceci n’est pas une retrospective [This is not a retrospective] [Magritte at Montreal MFA]
The Art Newspaper, July-Aug. 1996, p. 12.
- American Express vole au secours du patrimoine mondial [World Monuments Watch]
Le Journal des Arts, July-Aug. 1996, p. 47.
- Sometimes it moves sideways and sometimes it moves backwards but generally speaking it will move forward [The Wolfsonian, Miami]
The Art Newspaper, Sept. 1996, p. 12.
- American Express: la mappa dei cento siti a rischio [American Express: the map of one hundred sites at risk] [World Monuments Watch]
Il giornale dell'arte, Sept. 1996, p. 76.
- Jasper Johns: more than the slayer of Abstract Expressionist giants [Interview: Kirk Varnedoe of MoMA]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 1996, p. 16-17.
- Tutte le strade portano a Johns [Jasper Johns retrospective at MoMA]
Il Giornale dell'arte, Oct. 1996, p. 14.
- Casta paintings: a racial study book [Americas Society, NY exhibition]
The Art Newspaper, Dec. 1996, p. 19.
- Un direttore coraggiosissimo per un museo modernissimo [The bravest director for the most modern museum] [Shanghai]
Il Giornale dell'Arte, Dec. 1996, p. 23.
- Made by hand, telling stories and talking to the public [Whitney Biennial]
The Art Newspaper, March 1997, p. 12.
- Raymond Nasher: the world’s biggest private collector of modern sculpture [Guggenheim, NY exhibits Nasher Collection]
The Art Newspaper, Apr. 1997, p. 13.
- Top New York art publisher bought by young French giant [Harry N. Abrams acquired by Latingy]
The Art Newspaper, Apr. 1997, p. 33.
- Lovis Corinth, lessico familiare [Interview: Wilhelmine Corinth]
Il Giornale dell'Arte, Apr. 1997, p. 14.
- Aimez vous Abrams [Do you like Abrams] [Harry N. Abrams sold to French company]
Il Giornale dell'Arte, Apr. 1997, p. 78.
- Glenn Lowry: une presentation plus globale des collections [Interview: MoMA director, Glenn Lowry]
Le Journal des Arts, Apr. 4, 1997, p. 25.
- En route pour Byzance [The way to Byzantium] [Metropolitan Museum exhibition]
Le Journal des Arts, Apr. 4, 1997, p. 7.
- Nasher comes through for Dallas [Nasher Sculpture Garden announced]
The Art Newspaper, May 1997, p. 9.
- Deux Rodins sinon rien [Two Rodins or nothing] [Philadelphia Museum exhibitions]
Le Journal des Arts, May 2, 1997, p. 8.
- Qui a peur de Kupka [Who’s afraid of Kupka] [Dallas Museum retrospective]
Le Journal des Arts, May 30, 1997, p. 7.
- Suspicacia en Nueva York ante ‘m [Mistrust in New York] [Guggenheim Bilbao]
El Periodico del Arte, June 1997, p. 7.
- Disgruntled Patron Threatens to Withdraw Works from Metropolitan [Robert Ellsworth]
ARTnewsletter, June 17, 1997, p. 6.
- Culture de sculptures [Culture of sculptures] [David Smith at Storm King]
Le Journal des Arts, July 4, 1997, p. 12.
- La naturaleza muerta ya no es lo que era [Still-life isn’t what it used to be] [MoMA exhibition]
El Periodico del Arte, Aug.-Sept. 1997, p. 3.
- Business sure screwed up the art world universally [Interview: Robert Rauschenberg]
The Art Newspaper, Sept. 1997, p. 17.
- Quella volta que per 3 dollari comprai un Duchamp [The time I bought a Duchamp for 3 dollars] [Interview: Robert Rauschenberg]
Il Giornale dell'Arte, Sept. 1997, pp. 20-21.
- Biggest benefactor slashes funding [Reader’s Digest reduces funding for Metropolitan Museum]
The Art Newspaper, Sept. 1997, p. 11.
- Collection withdrawn from Swiss museums in protest against Unidroit [Staechelin Collection to Kimbell]
The Art Newspaper, Sept. 1997, p. 13.
- Maker of world-class art museums [Tom Krens and Guggenheim Bilbao]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 1997, p. 15.
- Heavenly showcase for cult’s collection [The Miho Museum, Japan]
The Art Newspaper, Dec. 1997, pp. 8-9.
- La Svizzera firma l’Unidroit? E io mando i miei quadri in Texas [Staechelin Collextion to Kimbell]
Il Giornale dell'Arte, Dec. 1997, p. 16.
- The instant, $20 million, English art collection [William Berger in Denver]
The Art Newspaper, April 1998, p. 23.
- The American canon presented (half, so far) [Whitney Museum’s permanent- collection galleries]
The Art Newspaper, April 1998, p. 26.
- La metamorfosis (Un importante cambio en el Museum Whitney de Nueva York) [The metamorphosis (An important change in the Whitney Museum of New York]
(Co-author J.A.Alvarez Reyes) El Periodico del Arte, May 1998, p. 7.
- Sculpture’s Abstractions – In New York, Recent Shows Spotlight a Resilient Style
The Washington Post, 26 May 1998, p. C09.
- Critiquing the critic [Letter to the Editor: response to Hilton Kramer review of essay in Knoedler’s Frank Stella exhibition catalogue]
The New York Observer, June, 1998.
- Chaim Soutine’s Colorful Expression [Also Charles Ray and Andrew Wyeth at Whitney Museum]
The Washington Post, July 19, 1998, p. G7-8.
- Casino profits fund Indian tribe’s mega-museum [Pequot Museum in Connecticut]
The Art Newspaper, July-Aug. 1998, p. 9.
- A Dutchman’s Hearth and Soul [Pieter de Hooch at Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford]
The Washington Post, Feb. 7, 1999, p. G6.
- For Museums, an Acquisitive Age [Washington, DC museum’s 1998 acquisitions]
The Washington Post, Feb. 28, 1999, G6.
- For Museums, an Acquisitive Age: Modern Works Lead the Way as Galleries Look to Fill Gaps in Their Collections
The Washington Post, 28 Feb 1999, p. G06.
- El regalo de un ex alumno [The gift of an alumnus] [Raymond Nasher to Duke University Museum]
El Periodico del arte, March 1999, p. 9.
- Bill Wixom, grand acquisitor of medieval art [Interview: Metropolitan Museum’s director of Medieval Art & The Cloisters]
The Art Newspaper, April 1999, pp. 10-11.
- Not what the Pilgrim fathers had in mind [Caravaggio shows at Boston College and Wadsworth Atheneum]
The Art Newspaper, April 1999, p. 18.
- The Glory That Was . . .At the Met, Greek and Roman Antiquities Galleries Given a Grand Makeover
The Washington Post, 25 Apr 1999, p. G06.
- El viaje imprevisto de Caravaggio [The unforeseen voyage of Caravaggio] [Exhibits at McMullen Museum, Boston and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford]
El Periodico de Arte, May 1999, p. 14.
- To the greater glory of antiquity [Metropolitan Museum’s new galleries of Greek art]
The Art Newspaper, May 1999, pp. 18-19.
- Ellsworth Kelly’s early years [Drawing exhibit at Harvard University Art Museum]
The Art Newspaper, May 1999, p. 16.
- Half a millennium in Tuscany [Book review: Sienese Painting]
The Art Newspaper, July-Aug. 1999, p. 55.
- Medio milenio en Toscana [Book review: Five Centuries of Sienese Painting]
El Periodico del Arte, Aug.-Sept. 1999, p. 36.
- After a Massacre at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent Reigns Serene [MFA reorganization]
The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 5, 1999, p. A16.
- After a Massacre at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent Reigns Serene
Wall Street Journal, 5 Aug 1999, p. A16.
- Staff sacking unleashes fury [Interview: MFA Boston director Malcolm Rogers]
The Art Newspaper, Sept. 1999, pp. 14-15.
- Furor por los despidos [Rage over dismissals] [MFA Boston scandal]
El Periodico del Arte, Oct. 1999, p. 8.
- Respaldo al director de la ‘hecatombe [Endorsement of director of hecatombe] [MFA Boston]
El Periodico del Arte, Nov. 1999, p. 10.
- A 10th-Century Masterpiece or Modern Fraud Chinese Art Experts Are Split Over the Authenticity Of an Ink-on-Silk Scroll
Wall Street Journal, 13 Dec 1999, p. A, 32:1.
- Edward Weston: Modern Master [MFA Boston]
Everything Art Magazine No. 16 (April-May 2000), ArtStar.com.
- Postmodern religious relativism (Schnütgen Museum at Boston College)
The Art Newspaper, May 2000, p. 31.
- Open Letter: Out With The Old (new installations at Tate and MoMA)
Everything Art Magazine No. 19 (June-July 2000), ArtStar.com.
- Following Inspiration Across Hill and Dale [Andy Goldsworthy at Storm King]
The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2000, p. A20.
- Boys, buildings and baubles at the Bard Graduate Centre [William Beckford collection]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 2001.
- International Trade Show or cultural festival (Fair report: ARCO, Madrid)
The Art Newspaper, March 2002, p. 35.
- Travelling survey places Goya’s images of women in their context
The Art Newspaper, March 2002, p. ?.
- Wall of Memories [Sept. 11 artifacts enter museum collections]
Smithsonian Magazine 33.1 (Apr 2002), p. 42.
- A Collector Who Can Let Go of His Treasures [Eugene V. Thaw profile]
The New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) [New York, N.Y] 24 Nov 2002, p. a.42.
- Eli Broad finances new building scheme for Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Art Newspaper 13.138 (Jul 2003-Aug 2003), p. 14.
- Santiago Calatrava joins Daniel Libeskind on World Trade Center project
The Art Newspaper, Sept. 2003.
- Market focus interview: American Indian art Ted Coe, the last of the campfire boys
The Art Newspaper 13.140 (Oct 2003), p. 43.
- New broom sweeps clean [Adam Weinberg plans directorship at Whitney]
The Art Newspaper 14.144 (Feb 2004), p. 18.
- Where dollars speak louder than protest [Havana Biennale]
The Art Newspaper 13.142 (Dec 2003), p. 27.
- Black museum faces closure [Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit]
The Art Newspaper 14.148 (June 2004), p. 9.
- Chicago unveils its new art park [Millennium Park]
The Art Newspaper 14.149 (Jul 2004-Aug 2004), p. 5.
- Less circus, more focus [Venice Biennale]
(Co-author Anna Somers Cocks) The Art Newspaper 14.150 (Sep 2004), p. 8.
- Il met si dà al contemporaneo, eposto ‘nel suo contesto storico’ [The met devotes itself to the contemporary, exhibited ‘in its historical context’]
Giornale dell'Arte 21.237 (Nov 2004), p. 62.
- The $2.6 million Dalí circus comes to town [Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition]
The Art Newspaper, March 2005.
- Will MoMA welcome major drawings collection? [Judith Rothschild Foundation]
The Art Newspaper, May 2005.
- Bringing a little Miami to San Juan [Diana and Moises Berezdivin]
Art Newspaper 14.159 (Jun 2005), p. 22.
- Corcoran shelves Gehry extension – director and two trustees resign
The Art Newspaper 14.160 (Jul 2005-Aug 2005), p. 20.
- La crème de la crème dei musei per il Wkcd [The crème de la crème of museums for the Wkcd]
Giornale dell'Arte 23.249 (Dec 2005), p. 14.
- UCLA students get Richard Meier building thanks to $23m from Eli Broad
The Art Newspaper 15.166 (Feb 2006).
- Louvre gets a taste of US sponsorship [Partnership with High Museum, Atlanta]
The Art Newspaper, Feb. 2006.
- The memoir MoMA declined to publish [William Rubin memoir]
The Art Newspaper 15.167 (Mar 2006)
View Publication PDF - The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish
The Art Newspaper 15.167 (Mar 2006)
- “This mask belongs to Egypt”/ Zahi Hawass demands repatriation of ancient Saqqara mask
"'This mask belongs to Egypt' / Zahi Hawass demands repatriation of ancient Saqqara mask," The Art Newspaper, 15,167 (March 2006).
- Gago apre a Roma, e triplica a NY [Gagosian opens in Roma, and triples in New York]
Giornale dell'Arte 23.253 (April 2006), p. 6.
- Six years ago, US museums pledged to research the Nazi history of works in their collections. Few have fulfilled their promises
The Art Newspaper 15.172 (Sep 2006), p. 8.
- US foundations back new charity handing out grants to artists [United States Artists fund]
The Art Newspaper 15.173 (Oct 2006).
View Publication PDF - Lauder raises $190m cash as Bloch-Bauer Klimts come up for sale
with Emily Sharpe, The Art Newspaper 15.173 (Oct 2006), p. 9.
- The future of the Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC, remains uncertain
The Art Newspaper 15.175 (Dec. 2006)
- Getty revises its guidelines for acquiring antiquities again
The Art Newspaper 15.175 (Dec 2006), p. 13.
- Russian collectors approach fair with care… [Art Basel Miami Beach]
The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Miami Beach special edition, Dec. 2006
- Collector support for Miami Art Museum [Miami Art Museum and Miami Art Central may merge]
The Art Newspaper, Jan. 2007.
- Going, going, gone: our diminishing Modernist heritage
(Co-author Brook Mason) The Art Newspaper 16.180 (May 2007), p. 53.
- Primeval forest for Tate in London [Alan Sonfist commission]
The Art Newspaper 16.180 (May 2007), p. 7.
- Accountant alleges major fraud at art school founded by Andy Warhol [NY Academy of Art]
The Art Newspaper 16.181 (Jun 2007), p. 9.
- Trial Warhol prints may be authenticated in alleged policy adjustment for Authentication Board
The Art Newspaper 16.182 (Jul 2007-Aug 2007).
- US billionnaire has donated $55m to preserve global sites [Robert Wilson]
The Art Newspaper 16.184 (Oct 2007), p. 7.
- An unsurprising look at the Metropolitan [Book review: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art]
The Art Newspaper, Oct. 2007.
- Leonard Lauder’s Klimt landscape belongs to me, says heir of Nazi victim
The Art Newspaper 16.184 (Oct 2007), p. 3.
- Antiquities dealer returns Roman and Etruscan artefacts to Italy [Jerome Eisenberg]
The Art Newspaper, Dec. 2007.
- And third Mexican collector loans his art to university [Andrés Blaisten]
The Art Newspaper 16.186 (Dec 2007), p. 13.
- Wall street collector opens private gallery in Chelsea [Glenn Fuhrman]
The Art Newspaper 17.187 (Jan 2008), p. 18.
- New York collector returns antiquities to Italy [Shelby White]
The Art Newspaper 17.188 (Feb 2008), p. 2.
- What the Mind’s Eye Sees [Action Painting and Other Abstractions]
The American Scholar 77.2 (Spring 2008), p. 113-117.
- New York collector’s exhibition centre opens [Shelby White & NYU’s Institute for Study of the Ancient World]
The Art Newspaper, April 2008.
- Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down [Leonard Lauder]
The Art Newspaper 17.193 (Jul 2008-Aug 2008), p. 14.
- Kienholz’s backroom exhibition
(Co-authors Gabriela Cala-Lesina, Eva Sandler) The Art Newspaper 17.194 (Sep 2008), p. 20.
- Museums make deep cuts in face of global financial crisis
The Art Newspaper 18.198 (Jan 2009), p. 1,4.
- Leading collector plans contemporary art space [Eugenio Lopez Alonso, Mexico City]
The Art Newspaper 18.203 (Jun 2009), p. 13.
- I am who I am. I’m not going to adopt a grand-style persona (Interview with Thomas Campbell, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Art Newspaper 205 (September 2009), p. 22-23.
- How are Hirst and Murakami coping with the downturn
(Co-authors Cristina Ruiz, Georgina Adam, Gareth Harris) The Art Newspaper 18.206 (Oct 2009), p. 37-38.
- Finding Frida Kahlo: Controversy Calls into Question the Authentication of the Renowned Artist’s Work
IFAR Journal, Volume 11, nos. 3&4, 2010, published by the International Foundation for Art Research and may not be reproduced/distributed elsewhere without IFAR's permission.
View Publication PDF - Double duty Goya [“Goya: images of women” at Prado and NGA, Washington DC]
The Art Newspaper, Nov. 2009.
- Miami Art Museum’s Future
“Miami Art Museum Should Rethink its Identity,” IN VIEW at Artinfo.com – December 7, 2010, 3:41 pm, by Jason Edward Kaufman.
- The city as artifice, created as you watch [Hans Op de Beeck at Hirshhorn Museum]
The Washington Post, 23 Jan 2011, p. E.8.
View Publication PDF - Two-painting exhibit sublime in its simplicity [Hendrick ter Brugghen at the National Gallery of Art]
The Washington Post, 20 Feb 2011, p. E.4.
View Publication PDF - Thoughts on a Chinese Artist Studying a Western Old Master [Jin Shangyi]
Excerpted from Jin Shangyi: Compliments to Vermeer [catalogue accompanying exhibition of the same name], Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2011, pp. 90-103.
- Grace (and art) seen in garbage [Vik Muniz’s “Waste Land”]
The Washington Post, 13 Mar 2011, p. E.8.
View Publication PDF - Perhaps the Most Important African Art Show [Ife at Virginia Museum of Fine Art]
The Washington Post, 13 Mar 2011, p. E.1.
- Calder’s Whimsy Shows up in Wire [Exhibition at Smithsonian Museum of American Art]
The Washington Post, 20 March, 2011.
- Philadelphia Museum photography exhibit ‘Unsettled’ [Review of “Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art”]
The Washington Post, Apr 30, 2011.
- D.C. art collectors Daniel and Mirella Levinas: ‘Open to what art can be’
The Washington Post, 21 Aug 2011, p. E.1.
- Venice Biennale an ambitious but typically overblown international art festival
The Washington Post, 17 June 2011, p. E.2.
- Modernista per tradizione, moderno per vocazione: cuore di MoMA
(Robert Storr interviewed by Jason Edward Kaufman, from The Art Newspaper, January 1994) in Il museo contemporaneo: storie, esperienze, competenze, ed. by Daniela Fonti and Rossella Caruso, University of Rome/Gangemi Editore, Rome, 2012.
- Death, Dots and Dollars [Damien Hirst profile]
Black Card Mag, Winter 2012, pp. 214-227.
View Publication PDF - 150 years after Munch’s birth, an intimate look back [Oslo show]
The Washington Post, 21 July 2013, p. E.3. (online July 19)
View Publication PDF - Polka Dot Princess [Yayoi Kusama profile]
Black Card Mag, Spring 2014, pp. 226-242.
View Publication PDF - Dealer Spotlight: Taiwan [Mainland Demand for Chinese Antiquities]
Artphaire (Online), April 16, 2014.
- Most Wanted: Uncovering Warhol [“Most Wanted Men” at Queens Museum]
Artphaire (Online), May 29, 2014.
- Microbiology on Acid [Kelsey Brookes profile]
Luxury Magazine, Fall 2014, pp. 228-242
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2017 (13)
2018 (4)
2019 (5)
- An Explosion of Art [Cai Guo-Qiang interview]
Luxury Magazine, Spring 2019, pp. 190-201.
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2020 (2)
- An American Life [Edward Hopper profile]
Luxury Magazine, Summer 2020, pp. 190-201.
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2021 (4)
- As American As Pie [Wayne Thiebaud interview]
Luxury Magazine, Spring/Summer 2021, pp. 190-201.
View Publication PDF - Grand Openings [New Museums around the World]
Luxury Magazine, Fall/Winter 2021, pp. 180-189.
View Publication PDF - Christo on His Life and Work (Christo, su vida y su trabajo) [Interview with the artist]
Christo and Jeanne-Claude en Uruguay [catalogue of exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry, Manantiales (Maldonado), Uruguay, Jan. 8-Apr. 8, 2022], MACA/Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Maldonado, Uruguay, 2022, pp. 268-286 (English) and pp. 192-211 (Spanish).
- Christo’s Visionary Enterprise [La visionaria empresa de Christo]
Christo and Jeanne-Claude en Uruguay [catalogue of exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry, Manantiales (Maldonado), Uruguay, Jan. 8-Apr. 8, 2022], MACA/Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Maldonado, Uruguay, 2022, pp. 254-267 (English) and pp. 178-191 (Spanish).
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