The Ugly - What if nobody wants your art? Paul Ruscha
Artbroken - What art is and how we stopped making it. Darby Bannard
Mimimalism Mastered - The meaning of a long standing term in art history is revised. John Link
Academy, Marketplace, and the End of Institutionalized Taste - Fractured taste and art. Franklin Einspruch
Proficiency and Pathology: Postmodernism in the Foundations Classroom - Is it true there is a silent majority that rejects PoMo? Darby Bannard
Perceiving Beauty - Beauty does not need truth. John Link
The Slippery Slope of Hope - Clement Greenberg and the fragility of culture. John Link
Not for the Faint of Art - Once again, Dave Barry, AKA "clueless Idiot", lampoons Pomo. The text of the Serious Art Internet Site is priceless.
A Letter from a Friend - Here's how one puzzled collector sees what is going on today; from Jack
The Future of Abstract Art - Darby Bannard responds to Hilton Kramer's pessimism; from The New Criterion. Darby Bannard
Barley Soup and Art: High and Low - Jules Olitski talks about "What Happened to the Arts? in his own inimitable way. Jules Olitski
When the illusion is lost, the art is hard to find ... - Just because Modernism is over doesn't mean PoMo rules Davis's art. Ronald Davis
That's Not a Trash Bag--It's Art! - "Innovative" art enters the killing field. Dave Barry (Click here for a neat cartoon after you read it.)
Art in an Era of Intolerance - The Deputy Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities talks about the art wars. Lynne Munson
Frakenthaler Works On Paper At MoCA - Sometimes Miami gets a good show. Darby Bannard
Faces and Figures at FIU: A Hard Look - Miami stands up to NYC. Darby Bannard
Value and Validation - "Ah!" versus buzz. Franklin Einspruch
Big Culture and the Great Pomo Dumbdown - The plight of art in a time of "Postart". Darby Bannard
Modernism and Postmodernism in Miami - The good, the bad and the silly. Darby Bannard
Ideas Don't Matter - How literary ideas subvert and vitiate art. John Link
Craft and Art Envy - Craft has it's own high integrity. Keep it that way. Darby Bannard
Abstract Art The Present Situation - The best painting of our time is being overlooked. Kenworth Moffett
Glorious Minor Art - Obsessing on "major" blinds us to the pleasure of art at all levels. John Link
The Hardness of Art - Art doesn't give a damn about us. Get used to it. John Link
Dead Certainty and the Art of Gerhard Richter - The coldness of Richter's art is more than skin deep. Franklin Einspruch
Pollock: Take 15 - The Pollock movie, one year later. John Link
Milton Avery and Louise Nevelson at the Lowe - Two big names in Miami. Darby Bannard
David Smith at the Lowe Museum; Four Painters at Dorsch - One master, four and more rising. Darby Bannard
Art, Intuition, and "Understanding" - Art cannot be understood; it can only be experienced. John Griefen
Susan Roth's Toughness - Roth's pictures are difficult but rewarding. John Link
Critical Notes - Young Miami Postmodernists at MOCA, 80s Expressionism at MOCA, Miriam Schapiro at the Lowe, two new painters at Dorsch. Darby Bannard
Pollock Got Away: A Review of the Movie Pollock - Admirably meticulous in every detail, the movie does not quite capture the artist himself. Darby Bannard
Apollo on the Muck - The empty Puritanism of radical kitsch. John Link
Excellence and Postexcellence - The alien just does not get new art. Darby Bannard
Art, Life, and Harold Rosenberg - A good eye with a bad theory. John Link
Abstract Painting and Content - It ain't as easy or as "empty" as you think. Darby Bannard