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Martyr Complex

From emails received by Michael D’Antuono in response to his painting The Truth, which depicts President Barack Obama in a crucifixion-like pose and wearing a crown of thorns. D’Antuono originally…

Mammonomania

by Benjamin Moser,

A reappraisal of Dutch Golden Age paintings

Art will eat itself

by Mark Kingwell,

What distinguishes art from everything else?

Les eminences grises

by Mia Fineman,

Terms of art

by Stephen Rosenthal,

Eye of the beholder

by Hugh Kenner,

Photographers and seventeenth-century Dutch painters demonstrate the fine art of just looking

Philistine-of-the-month

by Russell Lynes,

Contemporary art and the plight of its public

by Leo Steinberg,

Presidents on art

by Russell Lynes,

Perennial pastime

by Jacques Barzun,

Annexing art

More fallacies about art

by William Mills Ivins,