Art Beyond Aesthetics Editor’s Note: This essay is written by Grégoire Müller, the Editor of Artsmagazine (as it was written) between 1969 and 1972. During his brief tenure he made a point to welcome original contributions by artists as diverse as Vito Acconci, Frank Bowling, Salvador Dali, Walter De Maria, Dan Graham, Sol Lewitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Andy Warhol. He also published thought-provoking essays by Jack Burham, Nicolas Calas or Cindy Nemser, and put together a whole team of young reviewers that included Roberta Smith. In 1972, after the publication of his book “The ..read more

Seeing Petah Coyne’s America Petah Coyne’s majestic installation Untitled #1541 (Two Halves of the Same Soul) (2023) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts addresses a question posed by curators Deejay Duckett and Jodi Throckmorton for their exhibition Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America. The title comes from Ben Franklin’s famous statement shortly after the signing of the Constitution: “I have wondered during these days whether that sunburst [carved on George Washington’s chair] represented a setting or a rising sun. With the adoption of this Constitution, I am now persuaded it ..read more

The Burns Halperin Report by Artnet, which claims to reveal an “entrenched system of racism and sexism” in the art world, is the largest market report of its kind. But how accurate is it? The report has been lauded and cited in publications ranging from the New York Times and Artforum to Hyperallergic and MSN for its comprehensive investigation and statistical findings. However, our in-depth analysis of the report, we find several problems that undermine the credibility of its results. These issues range from the misrepresentation of minority artists to confused and false data sets, while pus ..read more

10 Ways Artnet’s Burns Halperin Report Gets It Wrong Fact-checking Artnet’s Burns Halperin Report Artnet News released its most recent Burns Halperin Report at the end of last year. It has, or had, legs in the media, with full features or citations of its claims appearing in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Barrons, Artforum, New York Post, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Financial Times, Widewalls, USA Art News, Art Dependence, Art News, Cultured, MSN, Monocle and Axios. Initiated in 2018, the authors Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin break with what market reports are thou ..read more

Abstractions in the Work of Jane Freilicher In 1957, shortly after Jane Freilicher and her husband Joe Hazan rented a home on Flying Point Road in Bridgehampton, the painter began composing abstracted landscapes, straying from  the smaller more representational images of domestic interiors and still lifes for which  she had become known.  Employing larger canvases, she experimented using loose, colorful brushstrokes that referenced her rural surroundings. Kasmin Gallery is exhibiting a selection of these large-scale paintings in Jane Freilicher: Abstractions – a body o ..read more