Rosenblum & Seltzer
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
by Elisabeth Kley

“Two Heads are Better than One”is the title of an exceedingly demented collaborative exhibition by Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer that opened on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 2012, at The Hole. Like pranksters scrawling mustaches on beauties and blackening out their teeth, Rosenblum and Seltzer have run amok, defacing the tawdriest decorative objects they could find with bizarre and malicious painted and sculpted additions.

...cont'd.

ARTNET NEWSWIRE

Asia Week
LOOK AHEAD TO ASIA WEEK 2012
by Brook S. Mason
Feb. 22, 2012
This year's Asia Week, which launches in Manhattan on Mar. 16, 2012, is more contemporary than ever.

WHO IS ROZALIA JOVANOVIC?
by Charlie Finch
Feb. 22, 2012
Say hello to Rozalia Jovanovic, the new art reporter at GalleristNY.

Reverend Jen
CHICK LIT FOR THE AVANT-GARDE
by Walter Robinson
Feb. 21, 2012
Survey Says: You must go out and buy the new memoir by the "sex symbol for the insane," the Lower East Side Art Star known as Reverend Jen.

Art Market Watch
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART AT AUCTION
by Daniel Grant
Feb. 21, 2012
Twice-yearly auctions of African-America art at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Swann Galleries.

Cindy Sherman
MASQUERADE BALL
by Rachel Corbett
Feb. 21, 2012
With a 40-year career retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art, the chameleon photographer is still looking to the future.

STAR FOR A RADIO DEVIL
by Tony Fitzpatrick
Feb. 21, 2012
Tony Fitzpatrick on the joy of drawing "wise-ass, hot-foot, flaming-bag-of-dog-shit-on-your-porch" devils -- and not just to piss people off.

Ellsworth Kelly
CALIFORNIA DOUBLE FEATURE
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Feb. 17, 2012
Ellsworth Kelly rocks Los Angeles with a show of prints at LACMA and the debut exhibition at Matthew Marks L.A.

Art Market Watch
LONDON SALES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
by Jessica Mizrachi
Feb. 17, 2012
Tweeting the results of the Richterrific sales and Baconfidence at the auctions in London.

WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson
Feb. 17, 2012
Damien Hirst spots, Eric Fischl friends, Jason Fox Jesus, Antony Johnson trauma and Sarah Kurz romance.

Cindy Sherman
THE LAST STAR
Feb. 16, 2012
The triumph of Cindy Sherman, as her retrospective opens at the Museum of Modern Art.

ARTNET NEWS
Feb. 16, 2012
Bushwick and Chelsea go head to head with dueling openings; Marc Jancou sues Sotheby's and Cady Noland; Christian Boltanski to make monthly videos for the rest of his life; Marina Abramovic enlists Rem Koolhaas to design new performing-arts center.

Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012
GO WEST, YOUNG ART FAIR
by Pedro Vélez
Feb. 16, 2012
West Coast élan and plenty of star power at the third edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary.

Takashi Murakami
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDHA
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Feb. 15, 2012
Takashi Murakami takes his signature artworks to the Arab world.

Yayoi Kusama
THE LAST WORD
by Rachel Corbett
Feb. 15, 2012
A new memoir by the eccentric 82-year-old "polka-dot painter" is a catalogue of surprisingly entertaining mind scraps.

Ouattara Watts
HEAD OVER HEELS
by Walter Robinson
Feb. 15, 2012
Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld presents 15 new paintings by Ouattara Watts at a provisional space in the far West Village.

Whitney Biennial
MITT ROMNEY
AND FOREST BESS
by Charlie Finch
Feb. 14, 2012
On the occasion of the Whitney Biennial, a conflation of Mitt Romney and visionary Texas artist Forrest Bess (1911-1977).

The Ungovernables
THE NEW CAPITAL: A CHEAT SHEET
Feb. 14, 2012
It's here! "The Ungovernables," brings 34 young artists and art groups from around the world to the New Museum Triennial.

Old Masters
LOOTED BY THE NAZIS, A ROMANINO IS RETURNED
by Paul Jeromack
Feb. 14, 2012
A dispute over a looted Old Master ends after the work is seized while on loan to a U.S. museum.

Robert Grosvenor
TRASH VERSUS ELEGANCE
by Charlie Finch
Feb. 13, 2012
Two new sculptures by Robert Grosvenor at Paula Cooper Gallery, viewed in the context of Damian Hirst spotmania.

Klara Lidén
AFTER-CHRISTMAS INVENTORY
by Jerry Saltz
Feb. 13, 2012
Klara Lidén channels the poignancy of discarded streetside trees in her exhibition at Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

NYC Gallery Shows
THE NEW YORK LIST, 2/10/2012
by Emily Nathan
Feb. 10, 2012
Jon Kessler, Alec Soth, Kay Rosen, Anne Truitt, Terry Winters, Willie Doherty, Mary Corse and Zimoun.

Art Market Watch
SALES IN LONDON: IMPRESSIONIST, MODERN AND SURREALIST
by Jessica Mizrachi
Feb. 10, 2012
Jon Kessler, Alec Soth, Kay Rosen, Anne Truitt, Terry Winters, Willie Doherty, Mary Corse and Zimoun.

Tony Oursler
THE MAN BEHIND THE MOVING CAMERA
by Emily Nathan
Feb. 9, 2012
Tony Oursler screens his single-channel videos at Electronic Arts Intermix.

ARTNET NEWS
Feb. 9, 2012
A judge fires the executor of the embattled Allan Stone estate. Plus, the windy city loses Art Chicago but gains new fair Expo Chicago, and PS1 gets a pollution-fighting installation for its courtyard.

AIFAF Palm Beach
SUPER-CHIC DESIGN AND MORE
by Brook S. Mason
Feb. 9, 2012
David Lester's American International Fine Art Fair takes a turn towards elegant 20th-century design, and even contemporary art.

Arte Fiera 2012
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
by Mark Kostabi
Feb. 8, 2012
This time around, Arte Fiera in Bologna was better for the flaneurs than the dealers.

Metropolitan Museum
THE TWO KOCHS
by Charlie Finch
Feb. 8, 2012
The cunning elites and the democratic plaza at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kiki Smith
SORCERY AND SENSUALISM
Feb. 8, 2012
"Visionary Sugar: Works by Kiki Smith," a survey of new bronze and aluminum sculptures, Jacquard tapestries, drawings on Nepal paper and more at the Neuberger Museum.

Blumka Gallery
COLLECTING MEDIEVAL AND BAROQUE TREASURES
by Brook S. Mason
Feb. 7, 2012
Carved ivories, giltwood angels and more in "Collecting Treasures of the Past VII" at Blumka Gallery in Manhattan.

Football
HOW SUPER IS THE SUPER BOWL?
by Charlie Finch
Feb. 7, 2012
Cultural ignorance and Super Bowl kitsch, Mitt Romney’s antiseptic robotism, NYPD thuggery against OWS and more.

American Art
THE BONEYARD PROJECT
Feb. 7, 2012
Out at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, a show of art made from airplane nose cones, and entire airplanes.

Joe Colombo
THE COMEBACK KID
by Brook S. Mason
Feb. 6, 2012
Paying homage to Joe Colombo's revolutionary and pragmatic designs in plastic closes at R20th Century in Tribeca.

ARTNET NEWS
Feb. 6, 2012
Twelve of the nation's top 50 donors of 2011 are arts patrons, new Walmart to displace three Miami art fairs, and a tale of fake Basquiats, Harings and Warhols.

Art Market Watch
OLD MASTERS
IN NEW YORK
by Jessica Mizrachi
Feb. 6, 2012
More than $130 million in the January Old Master sales at Christie's and Sotheby's New York.

New Art Examiner
AMERICAN ART CRITICISM LIVES!
by Donald Kuspit
Feb. 6, 2012
Every article in The Essential New Art Examiner, the new anthology of Chicago art criticism, is worth the serious read.

Spencer's Art Law Journal
Edited by Ronald D. Spencer
Feb. 3, 2012
More than $130 million in the January Old Master sales at Christie's and Sotheby's New York.

Close Encounters
TREES TO FOREST: KLARA LIDÉN AT REENA SPAULINGS
by Linda Yablonsky
Feb. 3, 2012
Swedish artist Klara Lidén stages a forest of discarded Christmas trees inside the Lower East Side gallery.

R.I.P. Dorothea Tanning
UTTERLY POSSESSING
by Jerry Saltz
Feb. 3, 2012
Jerry Saltz pays homage to the artist who stood at the center of the Surrealist movement, a "vicious mill for women," and refused to play second fiddle.

ARTNET NEWS
Feb. 2, 2012
Janine Gordon files new brief in Ryan McGinley copyright case. Plus, David Reed does skateboards, Denver law students oppose Christo's Over the River and a Mona Lisa replica sheds new light on the masterpiece.

ANTIQUARIES IN AMERICA
by Walter Robinson
Feb. 2, 2012
"Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007" at the Yale Center for British Art.

Mike Kelley
THE PERVERSE MASTER
by Jerry Saltz
Feb. 2, 2012
RIP Mike Kelley, 1954-2012, who turned L.A. foreboding into an all-out acrimonious art of darkness.

Mike Kelley
MIKE AND IKE
by Charlie Finch
Feb. 1, 2012
RIP Mike Kelley, 1954-2012.

NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Feb. 1, 2012
Van Gogh, Tacita Dean, Renoir, Juan Downey, Gauguin, John Chamberlain, Cindy Sherman, Rineke Djikstra, Jules Olitski, "The Generational," "The Art Of Golf," Outsider Art, more.

Venice Biennale
MASSI ON MY MIND
by Jerry Saltz
Feb. 1, 2012
As Massimiliano Gioni takes over, new hope for the Venice Biennale.

Art Horoscope
THE FEBRUARY PERSPECTIVE
by Leigh Oswald
Feb. 1, 2012
Despite the global socio / economic / political / environmental mess we find ourselves in, Neptune entering in Pisces from the 3rd onward brings hope for the rebalancing of energies.

Jean Dubuffet
QUIXOTIC QUICKSAND? JEAN DUBUFFET'S "GROUNDLESS" PAINTINGS
by Donald Kuspit
Jan. 31, 2012
In his final years, the 80-year-old Jean Dubuffet continued his experiments with elevating street art to high art.

TREES A CROWD
by James Croak
Jan. 31, 2012
Tracking an increased prevalence of art that deals in organic iconography -- and uses trees in particular.

John Cage
CAGED IN 2012
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 31, 2012
Charlie Finch ponders the legacy of pioneering composer John Cage on the centennial of his birth.

Accra Shepp
OCCUPY THE ART WORLD
by Barbara Pollack
Jan. 30, 2012
An interview with photographer Accra Shepp, who is taking pictures of Occupy Wall Street, one person at a time.

ARTNET NEWS
Jan. 30, 2012
Beach Boys lyricist Van Dyke Parks tells painter Erik den Breejen to "cease and desist." Plus, 1980s AIDS activist collective Gran Fury gets a new survey, and Sandro Kopp paints Skype portraits of his celebrity friends.

Anthony Haden-Guest
THE HATED GUEST
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 30, 2012
Famed scribe Anthony Haden-Guest hosts a benefit for his efforts to recover the contents of his storage locker.

Bernhard Martin
PERVERSE PLEASURES
by Gesine Borcherdt
Jan. 30, 2012
German painter Bernhard Martin brings a sense of "bel cazzo vita figa" -- cock-pussy life -- to his show at London's Union Gallery.

Simone Leigh
MOUTHING OFF
by Elizabeth Kley
Jan. 27, 2012
The pioneering black artist "channels the power of prehistoric female craft" with a monumental exhibition of new work at The Kitchen.

Jordan Wolfson's Video
THE SEMITE, SMITTEN
by Emily Nathan
Jan. 27, 2012
The young artist's new CGI animated video, featuring a schizoid character unofficially called "The Jew," goes on view at uptown hotspot Alex Zachary Peter Currie.

Art Market Watch
ARTNET AUCTIONS 2011: A YEAR OF TOP LOTS
by Jessica Mizrachi
Jan. 27, 2012
The highlights of 2011's Artnet Auctions, for those of you who haven't yet started taking note of the haps in online art sales.

Gallery Shows L.E.S.
THE NEW YORK LIST 1/26/2012
by Emily Nathan
Jan. 26, 2012
Klara Lidén, Slater Bradley, Gerald Ferguson, Ben Schumacher, Danica Phelps, Ian Tweedy, Hannah Barrett, more.

Old Masters
NGA SNAGS $1.5 MIL DE KEYSER
by Paul Jeromack
Jan. 26, 2012
In Christie's New York "Old Master Paintings" sale, Jan. 25, 2012, the NGA wins out over fierce competitors to acquire its first painting by Dutch master Thomas de Keyser.

THE BIG FRIEZE
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 26, 2012
London's Frieze Art Fair is not slated to dock in New York until May 2012, but its press minions are already hitting the streets.

Cariou v. Prince
CARIOU FIGHTS COPYRIGHT APPEAL
by Rachel Corbett
Jan. 25, 2012
Patrick Cariou's lawyers filed an appellate brief today challenging Richard Prince and Larry Gagosian's attempts to appeal last year's copyright defeat.

Winter Antiques Show
AMERICANA AND MORE
by Brook S. Mason
Jan. 25, 2012
The 58th annual antique fair, hosted at the Park Avenue Armory, is a barometer of taste, and this year's 73 dealers come bearing plenty of Americana.

American Folk Art Museum
PLUCKED OR PLUCKY? THE AFAM MARKS ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
by N.F. Karlins
Jan. 24, 2012
With no debt and a new board, the troubled American Folk Art Museum reviews its first 50 years with "Jubilation / Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined."

ARTNET NEWS
Jan. 24, 2012
Hard-boiled crime king Weegee in four new shows, further details on Gagosian-Cowles feud, Indiana artists bank on Super Bowl tourism, and the Design Museum London gets new £80 million home.

Old Masters
PJ's PICKS IN THE NEW YORK OLD MASTER AUCTIONS
by Paul Jeromack
Jan. 24, 2012
Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Hubert Robert, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Charles-Antoine Coypel, Sandro Botticelli, more.

Old Masters
SUFFERING OF THE BODY
by Paul Jeromack
Jan. 23, 2012
London dealer Sam Fogg brings an unusual selection of medieval panel paintings to Richard L. Feigen & Co.

Wint-O-Green Moth
FOR ETTA JAMES
by Tony Fitzpatrick
Jan. 23, 2012
Etta James' baby face and angel's voice are gone, and winter settles down in Chicago.

POLLOCK/WARHOL 2012
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 23, 2012
Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol -- they have more in common than you might think.

Bushwick Art Scene
BIGFOOT IN BUSHWICK
by Rachel Corbett
Jan. 20, 2012
With a scattering of new galleries and next month's arrival of Luhring Augustine, locals debate what's next for the prospering Bushwick art scene.

Party Pictures
ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY
Photos by Pedro Vélez
Jan. 20, 2012
Good deals and a festive atmosphere abound at Art Los Angeles Contemporary at the Barker Hangar, Jan. 19-22, 2012.

Metro Show
NO MORE BOUNDARIES
by Brook S. Mason
Jan. 20, 2012
The new Metro Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion combines folk art, design, tribal art more, spanning the gamut.

Gallery Shows NYC
THE NEW YORK LIST 1/19/2012
by Emily Nathan
Jan. 19, 2012
Damien Hirst, Shirin Neshat, Doug Wheeler, Rashid Johnson, Weegee, Mat Collishaw, Matt Hoyt, Bill Jensen, Taylor Mead.

Artnet Design
VISIONARY THOMAS HEATHERWICK
by Brook S. Mason
Jan. 19, 2012
Thomas Heatherwick's revolutionary designs come to roost at Haunch of Venison's Chelsea space.

Detroit: 138 Square Miles
RUIN PORN GALORE FOR BOTH RICH AND POOR
by Pedro Vélez
Jan. 19, 2012
Considering Julia Reyes Taubman and her massive picture book, Detroit: 138 Square Miles, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Art Market Watch
BAKU IN LONDON AND PRINTS IN NEW YORK
by Jessica Mizrachi
Jan. 18, 2012
"Fly to Baku: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan" at Phillips de Pury & Co. in London, and "Editions" at Phillips de Pury & Co. in New York.

ARTNET NEWS
Jan. 18, 2012
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery gets more heat from last year’s Wojnarowicz censor. Plus, video game art in D.C., and making sense of the Chinese auction boom.

Diary of an Art Star
EXCLUSIVE! AN INTERVIEW WITH HANKSY
by Reverend Jen
Jan. 17, 2012
Who is "Hanksy," the mysterious new artist taking the Lower East Side by storm? Reverend Jen has the exclusive report.

Chelsea Stroll
THE BLACK BOX
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 17, 2012
An amble through the art district, with Murad Khan Mumtaz, Kim MacConnel and "Diggers."

THE CHAIN GANG DREAMS OF KRYPTONITE
by Tony Fitzpatrick
Jan. 17, 2012
The state of democracy in America is a sad affair.

OCCUPY MOMA
by Barbara Pollack
Jan. 17, 2012
The Occupy Museums group stages a political action at the Museum of Modern Art.

Damien Hirst
SPOTS, SHARKS, MAGGOTS AND MONEY
by Jerry Saltz
Jan. 13, 2012
How Damien Hirst took over the world.

Maurizio Cattelan
FAMILY BUSINESS GALLERY OPENS AT ANNA KUSTERA
by Rachel Corbett
Jan. 13, 2012
He's not retired yet -- Maurizio Cattelan teams up again with curator Massimiliano Gioni to open a mini-gallery in Chelsea.

Martin Luther King
MLK: AN ART EXEGESIS
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 13, 2012
Dr. Martin Luther King, the most "formidable, handsome and compelling subject in American history," has been ignored by the arts.

American Art
NEW AMERICAN ART GALLERIES FOR THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Photos by Walter Robinson
Jan. 13, 2012
The Metropolitan Museum unveils its new galleries for American art on June 16, 2012.

Pacific Standard Time
THE CUTTING EDGE AT POMONA
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Jan. 12, 2012
The Cutting Edge at Pomona College Museum from 1970 to 1972.

ARTNET NEWS
Jan. 12, 2012
James Franco to play Mapplethorpe, plus, a provocative Berlin Biennale project by Martin Zet, lingerie models at Musée d'Orsay, and 15 art fairs in the next two weeks.

Damien Hirst
HOT SPOTS
by Rachel Corbett
Jan. 11, 2012
With spot paintings at all 11 Gagosian galleries around the globe, Damien Hirst dominates once again, and he's still bored by it all.

Edgar Degas
A MATCH MADE IN PARIS
by N.F. Karlins
Jan. 11, 2012
Reverence and freedom in "Degas and the Nude" at the Boston MFA.

Museum of Modern Art
MOMA'S EYE CANDY
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 10, 2012
"De Kooning: A Retrospective" comes to an end, but the pretentious intellectualism of MoMA's contemporary vision goes on.

ARTNET NEWS
Jan. 10, 2012
"Hajj" at the British Museum, Henry O. Tanner in Philadelphia, Jesús Soto at NYU's Grey Gallery and a boost for the Guggenheim's proposed branch in Helsinki.

Malanga v. Chamberlain
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING CHAMBERLAIN WARHOL
by Rachel Corbett
Jan. 10, 2012
Where is 315 Johns, the putative Andy Warhol portrait of John Chamberlain?

Gallery Shows NYC
THE NEW YORK LIST 1/9/2012
by Emily Nathan
Jan. 9, 2012
"Corporations," Bertien van Nanen, James Nares, Hassan Sharif, Michael Snow, Margaret Evangeline, Thomas Woodruff, "Diggers," On Kawara, Joel Sternfeld, Ai Weiwei.

John McWhinnie
BOOKWORLD
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 9, 2012
RIP John McWhinnie, 43, art and book dealer, in a snorkeling accident in the British Virgin Islands.

Art Market Watch
TASTEMAKERS, AMERICANA, OLD MASTERS AND MORE
by Jessica Mizrachi
Jan. 9, 2012
Marketing the art auctions -- "Tastemakers," "Americana Week" and "Old Masters Week" in January 2012.

Close Encounters
NOW DIG THIS!
by Linda Yablonsky
Jan. 6, 2012
The black art renaissance, now and then, via Clifford Owens in New York, "Now Dig This!" in Los Angeles, plus David Hammons and more..

New Art
OVERLOAD
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 6, 2012
Stonehenge, the Beach Boys, and new art by Erik den Breejen at Freight & Volume and Janet Malcolm at Lorie Bookstein Fine Art.

Jenny Saville
METAMORPHOSIS: A LOVE STORY
by Patricia Cronin
Jan. 5, 2012
Jenny Saville has her first U.S. museum survey at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach.

Stephen Douglas Hooper
REMEMBERING HOOP
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 5, 2012
RIP Stephen Douglas Hooper, aka Hoop, 1947-2011, master of the hippie funny car.

ARTNET NEWS
Jan. 4, 2012
Richard Prince gets a show at the Museo Picasso Málaga, a round-up of January art benefits and a Metallica-inspired exhibition in Los Angeles.

Work of Art
SUCKLORD’S ACTION FIGURE
by Jerry Saltz
Jan. 4, 2012
The critic reviews his portrait -- Jerry Saltz on Sucklord’s Important Art Critic: Defender of Taste and Culture.

NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Jan. 3, 2012
Jennifer Bolande, Zoe Strauss, Picasso’s drawings, Dana Schutz, Enrico David, Djuna Barnes, Annie Leibovitz, Frank Gaard, Rabindranath Tagore, more.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES IN 2012!
by Charlie Finch
Jan. 3, 2012
Predicting the fate of Ai Weiwei, Glenn Lowry, the Old Master market and more.

Beverly Fishman
DECEPTIVE PLEASURES
by Donald Kuspit
Jan. 3, 2012
The neuron spikes in Beverly Fishman’s new abstract paintings at Galerie Richard in New York.

Art Horoscope
THE JANUARY PERSPECTIVE
by Leigh Oswald
Dec. 30, 2011
2012 will be the year of the artist’s voice, louder than ever before.

Work of Art
THE DRAMA’S DONE
by Jerry Saltz
Dec. 29, 2011
Jerry Saltz looks back on a year’s worth of judging Work of Art, Bravo TV’s reality series.

CRAZY FRANK IN THE BIG WORLD
by Tony Fitzpatrick
Dec. 29, 2011
Tony Fitzpatrick pays homage to his long-lost pal Crazy Frank, a violent man more akin to an ape than a human.

Lola Schnabel
DRINK YOUR LOLA COLA
by Charlie Finch
Dec. 28, 2011
Lola Montes Schnabel debuts her paintings at the Hole on the Bowery in Manhattan.

Helen Frankenthaler
A WIND THAT LASHES EVERYTHING AT ONCE
by Jerry Saltz
Dec. 28, 2011
RIP Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011, pioneering woman painter who bridged Abstract Expressionism and "what was possible."

Helen Frankenthaler
EBB AND FLOW
by Charlie Finch
Dec. 27, 2011
RIP Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011, American Abstract-Expressionist painter who was a pioneer of the Washington Color School.

Jane Wilson
THE ECLIPSE OF LANDSCAPE
by Donald Kuspit
Dec. 23, 2011
In Jane Wilson's landscape paintings, an apotheosis of the whole of nature, restored to its naked state in a modern urban world.

David Ellis
FAST AND FURIOUS
by Walter Robinson
Dec. 22, 2011
Street Artist David Ellis kicks creativity up a notch in his new show at Joshua Liner Gallery.

ARTNET NEWS
Dec. 22, 2011
Dread Scott blazes into the New Year with two fiery shows. Plus, watch Professor Kalup Linzy's disciples of melodrama perform their NYU final projects, and a Maine artist tracks down her 600 Facebook friends.

Art Jokes
HOLIDAY ARTOONS
by Anthony Haden-Guest
Dec. 22, 2011
Six new art-world cartoons -- artoons -- from the man-about-town and author of In the Mean Time: The Other Ends of the World (2011).

John Chamberlain
AUTOPILOT
by Charlie Finch
Dec. 21, 2011
RIP John Chamberlain, 1927-2011, second generation Abstract Expressionist artist widely known for his car-crash sculptures.

Top Ten 2011
THE YEAR IN ART
by Jerry Saltz
Dec. 21, 2011
The Cold War, 1950s brushstrokes and a pickup artist run amok.

ARTNET NEWS
Dec. 20, 2011
Buy your own Work of Art prints-on-canvas, and Bravo keeps the money. Plus, more on the David Rohn and Evo Love fortune-teller fracas and the India Art Fair beefs up for 2012.

Art Market Watch
THE MILLION-DOLLAR DESIGN FLOCK
by Jessica Mizrachi
Dec. 20, 2011
Before Christmas, big prices for Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, Eileen Gray, Frederick Kiesler, Naum Slutzky, Paul Lobel, more.

Mickey Cartin
THE REBBE
by Charlie Finch
Dec. 19, 2011
A New York collector with eclectic taste and an almost Talmudic attachment to language.

Jean-Luc Moulène
MINIMUM OPUS
by Rachel Corbett
Dec. 19, 2011
Dia:Beacon takes its chances with a little-known French sculptor and photographer in a sprawling new year-long exhibition.

Gallery Shows NYC
THE NEW YORK LIST 12/19/11
by Emily Nathan
Dec. 19, 2011
For the die-hards, a few exhibitions to see before the New Year -- and after, in the first weeks of 2012.

Art Embargo
IRANIAN ART & THE SANCTIONS
by Daniel Grant
Dec. 16, 2011
With a range of global sanctions against Iran, how does one buy Iranian art?

Cariou v. Prince
MORE ON ARTISTS' COPYRIGHT CLAIMS
by Walter Robinson
Dec. 16, 2011
"What We Talk about When We Talk About Appropriation: Contemporary Art after Cariou v. Prince" at the New York City Bar Association.

Miami Art Week
ART DEALER'S DIARY
by Kenny Schachter
Dec. 14, 2011
Art fairs are like casinos, with no outside light, and no sense of time or place.

Paul McCarthy
SNOW WHITE AND THE PHALLIC BRONZES
by L. Brandon Krall
Dec. 13, 2011
A few works on Paul McCarthy's "The Dwarves, the Forests" at Hauser & Wirth in Manhattan.

The Art Prophets
CONFIDENCE MEN
by Pedro Vélez
Dec. 13, 2011
The profiles in Richard Polsky's The Art Prophets suggest that many visionaries are wolves in sheeps' clothing.

DAVID, DELACROIX AND REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
by N.F. Karlins
Dec. 1, 2011
The art of political unrest in France between 1774 and 1852, at the Morgan Library & Museum.

NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Dec. 1, 2011
Theaster Gates, Matthew Buckingham, Rodarte, Alfred Wertheimer’s Elvis photographs, 2010 SECA Art Awards, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, conceptual art and the photograph, Sanja Iveković, more.

Henri Matisse
MATISSE AND THE MODEL
by N.F. Karlins
Nov. 28, 2011
An exhibition exploring Matisse's symbiotic relationship with his models, at the Eykyn Maclean Gallery.

WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson
Nov. 18, 2011
Spartacus Chetwynd, Georges Braque, Paul McCarthy, "Grisaille," Charles Simonds, Diego Rivera, Judy Hudson, Nick Poe, Terry Richardson, Urs Fischer, Margaret Lee, more.

Rembrandt, Picasso & McQueen
THE BLOCKBUSTER MYSTERY
by N.F. Karlins
Nov. 16, 2011
"Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art prompts some musings about museum blockbusters.