Housing Jump Start
Deborah Solomon, Wall Street Journal reporter, discusses the new Treasury Department plan to push down interest rates on long-term mortgages to jump start the housing market.
View ArticleKeeping Tabs on the Bankers
Deborah Solomon, financial policy writer for The Wall Street Journal, talks about delays in implementing financial industry regulations and what impact they are likely to have on Wall Street profits.→...
View ArticleOpen Phones: What Are You Waiting On Line For?
From the line for Cronuts to the line for MoMA's Rain Room, there's a lot of waiting going on this summer. What's the longest you've waited on a line (or in a line), and what's your limit? Call in to...
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Art Talk: New Yorkers Are Obsessed With This Teeny Tiny Bird
Record crowds are flocking to the Frick Collection on the Upper East Side to see a small painting of a bird created almost 400 years ago.That's because "The Goldfinch," painted by Dutch artist Carel...
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Art Talk: What Happens When the Art Dealer Steals the Show
Museums usually mount exhibits featuring one artist. Or a period in history. Or an art movement. But for the first time in its history, the Museum of Modern Art is devoting an exhibition to an art...
View ArticleArt Talk: The Four Art Shows to See Before the Year is Over
2013 was the year when New Yorkers stood in line for up to eight hours to go through a rainy, dark room. It was also the year when a painting of a tiny bird from the 1600's drew record crowds to a...
View ArticleMOCA Hires Dia Foundation's Phillipe Vergne
Another New York art leader is moving west. Four years after hiring New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will replace him with Dia Art Foundation's Philippe...
View ArticleDegenerate Art: Hitler's War on Modernism
An upcoming museum exhibition and film remind us that German dictator Adolf Hitler declared a war on modern art, branding it as "degenerate," seizing it from private owners, and often selling it to...
View ArticleA Black Photographer Looking for Her Way in
A veteran American photographer is getting her first major museum retrospective. Carrie Mae Weems' work, now at the Guggenheim Museum, focuses mostly on issues facing African Americans, such as racism...
View ArticleQueens Museum Gets Very Real With Homeless Art
A gallery at the Queens Museum is stocked with 22 bunk beds. That's where the audience sits, for a performance by formerly homeless people about their experiences in jail.The project is by the LAPD —...
View ArticleA Chance to Paint the Museum's Walls
For those who always wanted to draw on walls, this is your chance.Polish artist Pawel Althamer's new show at the New Museum includes a floor where the public is invited to draw on the white walls, with...
View ArticleArt With A Stigma: Italian Futurism in NYC
"We intend to destroy museums, libraries, academies of every sort, and to fight against moralism, feminism..."That is part of the legendary Italian Futurism manifesto, published in 1909 by Italian poet...
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Gauguin’s Prints Are Sexy, Too
French painter Paul Gauguin quit his stockbroker’s job and left his wife and five children to move to the South Pacific island of Tahiti. There, in the 1890s, he did his famous, lush paintings of local...
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Jasper Johns Shows His Regrets
Jasper Johns helped jump-start the Pop art movement in the 1950s by painting everyday objects like American flags and targets. He's perhaps America's most celebrated living artist and now, at age 83,...
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Used and Abused: The Life of a Muse
Throughout history, women (mostly) have modeled for male (mostly) artists. This has often worked out swimmingly for the men, whose paintings or sculptures might become famous — but not so well for the...
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Ai Weiwei's Provocative Art, Now in Brooklyn
Ai Weiwei, 56, is probably the most provocative artist from China today: He smashes ancient vases and makes sculptures about missing earthquake victims. Now his work is the subject of a full-scale...
View ArticleContext and An Exhibit: Ai Weiwei at the Brooklyn Museum
An exhibit of Ai Weiwei's work is up at the Brooklyn Museum. Deborah Solomon, art critic for WNYC, talks about the show, "According to What?" and the artist's work. Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New...
View ArticlePollock on Uniqlo T-Shirts: Appalling or Perfect?
You may not be able to afford a $20 million Andy Warhol painting, but don’t despair. You can get a $20 Warhol T-shirt.In an unprecedented deal with Uniqlo, the Museum of Modern Art has given the...
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The Sugar Baby in the Sugar Factory
Kara Walker's site-specific work, "A Subtlety", is on display at the Domino Sugar Factory. The full title of the work is: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby: an Homage to the unpaid and overworked...
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De Niro, the Painter: Master or Mediocre?
Robert De Niro is on a mission to rewrite art history. The film star is hoping to bring national acclaim to his artist-father, who is also named Robert De Niro, and who died in 1993.The actor is behind...
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