Just listened to Bruce Springsteen's cover of "Dream Baby Dream," and I hope never to do that again.

“Were I a rival of Chardin, I would briefly consider hanging myself.” —Schjeldahl, via Steve Martin www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Take your kids to Pat Oleszko’s show. One of the best I’ve seen with my mine.

". . . he is remembered more for his social life and connections than for his work life, and, indeed, confessed to hating to work." John Hohnsbeen, 1926–2007 www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Crispy boys are back on the Staten Island Ferry! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/n...

RIP Pat Steir, whose radiant paintings record carefully mediated chance. That would be enough to secure a place in the history books, but she also cofounded Printed Matter and Heresies. I wrote an obituary for the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/a...

Wrote a short profile for the New York Times of Lap-See Lam, whose multifarious art is inspired by Chinese restaurants around the world www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/a...

Very cool that the first solo show on Heimo Zobernig's CV is: "Private exhibition in the home of Can Ysargil and Ruth Labak, Theobaldgasse 8, Vienna."

An underrated pleasure: perusing the Wikipedia article for a museum you are about to visit for the first time. The best is when there’s a decent photo gallery: Let’s look at some pictures of pictures I’m about to see!

Red alert: I have just discovered that art critic Brian Sewell's 'Grand Tour' TV miniseries is now available online. An absolutely deranged program. They do not make TV like this anymore (maybe for the better). My highest recommendation. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Nate Freeman: "Yes, I have a favorite fondue place in Basel, and I am gatekeeping it." www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

RIP Calvin Tomkins, the great art writer of postwar America. His lucid writing speaks for artists, while welcoming all interested readers into the world of contemporary art. He was 100. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Impeach the President

Recently recommended some potential moderators to a gallery for an artist talk, and the director mildly complained that they would probably ask for a fee. Folks, you have to pay people for doing things! Even more so if you are literally a commercial enterprise! What are we doing here?

When did Greene Naftali get a new site? Very elegant! greenenaftaligallery.com

Here are three very excellent shows in New York that have very limited runs. Act fast. news.artnet.com/art-world/sh...

Gogo plans Nam June Paik show in Seoul. news.artnet.com/market/nam-j...

"Anyone gets to like anything, and all the winning art-historical judgments are based on sheer liking in the long run." —Schjeldahl, 1994 www.artforum.com/features/siz...

Jeff Koons is hiring a Sculpture Project Manager www.nyfa.org/jobs/?_page=...

Somewhat disturbed by the rapturous reception for Carol Bove's Guggenheim show. It's fine. Nice interior decoration. Fundamentally minor art. The best-looking stuff was loaned by the best collections, and many fine things are available from leading galleries. The Guggenheim should be more ambitious.

A Louise Lawler announcement card from 2003. She will open a new show with Hans Haacke at Maxwell Graham on Thursday.

Fellow writers, colleagues, comrades, are you seeking a writing fellowship? Let me invite you to apply for the 2026 Artlab Editorial Fellowship. artlab.hyundai.com/editorial/20...

Eisenhower, 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."`

Eisenhower, 1953: "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals."

"Weird question but do Peter Kember (Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Sonic Boom) and Jason Pierce (Spacemen 3, Spiritualized) really share the exact same birthday?" www.reddit.com/r/SpaceRock/...

Seung-taek Lee, 'Earth Performance,' 1989–96 (2023 reenactment in New York) Amanda Ross-Ho, 'Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE), 2026, at Frieze Los Angeles

Going to Brooklyn for the first time in a few weeks. What will I discover there?

"Judge Choudhury . . . wrote that she considered holding officials in contempt over the violations, but decided against it because the detainee could not afford to pay a lawyer to file a motion, court filings show." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

"A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

"If you do what I do, you’re really exposed, because I have a lot of overhead. I build things and I have to have a lot of equipment, materials and help. Expensive business. Nobody wants it." —Michael Heizer, in a very satisfying profile by Michael Miller www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

From the inbox: "COLLECTORS GO WILDE FOR WHITE GLOVE OSCAR WILDE SALE AT BONHAMS KNIGHTSBRIDGE"

From the inbox: "A YEAR OF LANDMARK EXHIBITIONS ACROSS THE WORLD FOR ANISH KAPOOR IN 2026"

We’re watching Frederick Wiseman tonight. A lucid artist. A committed democrat. A pillar of civic life. RIP.

Don't have the wherewithal to get into this, but Ed Ruscha's Venice Biennale pictures are looking more depressing and sinister each day.

the collector who owns "Untitled" (Go-Go Dancing Platform) is selling it via Hauser & Wirth. We only ever see it in institutional settings. What's it like in private? Do you have a roster of go-go dancers coming to your house unannounced? What if the owner is the dancer? greg.org/archive/2026...

Sad to see Adrian Searle stepping down from the Guardian. One of the best to do it in our times. Sprightly, incisive, lucid. www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

This spam text: very strong. Put it in a biennial.

Not sure if I can survive another Frieze New York in The Shed

"BRICKWRECKS: Sunken Ships in LEGO® Bricks" at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is basically Damien Hirst's 2017 Venice show mysticseaport.org/exhibit/bric...

Happy Birthday, Gerhard Richter

"In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

the sugar cane is people, not even kara walker could have imagined this

This Bad Bunny’s really got something going on. One to watch!

A gentleman just rolled into the bar with a baguette and a small circle of Brie, and he is taking care of business. Have to respect it.

“No one would complain of Canalettos that they are ‘all alike.’ This is precisely their point. They please us by repeating, just as a mirror does." —Mary McCarthy

Seen a lot of posts from Qatar this week showing an impressive artwork by Richard Serra. Seems like a cool artist. I will check him out.

This week in the New York Times, I reviewed: – KEITH HARING at Martos – JOHN DUFF at Reena Spaulings – 'ERUPTION' at Jarvis Art www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

Too many favorite Sebastian Smee columns to mention, but I absolutely loved him closing his review of Wolfgang Tillmans's 2022 MoMA show with Herman Hesse's lines about “how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was so beautiful.” www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta...

Always nice to see a work inspired by the underrated Alex Hay. This is 1968, Whitney Museum.

FROM THE INBOX: "The Fondation Carmignac presents SEA, POP & SUN, a dazzling ode to the freedom and vitality of the 1960s and 1970s that summons the Pop spirit. The exhibition at the Villa Carmignac, nestling between pine trees and the sea, reveals sun-drenched, sensual, soaring works of Pop Art..."