"It is important to recognize that in our epoch, you can't do anything without the press."
Claude Monet to his dealer
Paul Durand-Ruel, March 6, 1883
Latest Stories
With Sketchpads and Guns, Semper Fi
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, July 18, 2010
The Marine Corps isn't the only service to have a combat art program, but many regard it as the one most deeply committed to its artistic mission.
Interactive Feature: Marine Art
Home Fires Blog: The Art of Michael D. Fay
Private Collection Becomes Very Public
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, June 6, 2010
The extraordinary art collection of the Gap's founders, Don and Doris Fisher, will go on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in "Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection."
Putting New Faces on Islamic History
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, May 23, 2010
Shoja Azari imagines imams, martyrs and saints as contemporary Iranian women.
Interactive Feature: Anatomy of a Scene: 'Coffee House Painting'
Giving Museumgoers What They Want
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, May 16, 2010
The redesigned Oakland Museum of California has renewed its mission to engage the public.
The Streets, Frozen in Neon
The New York Times, Weekend, April 23, 2010 • cover story
A rediscovered short film by the photographer Louis Faurer, a poet of the New York City streets, documents Times Square in the 1960s.
Interactive Feature: Anatomy of a Scene: 'Time Capsule'
Lisa Hostetler, curator of photography at the Milwaukee Art Museum, narrates a look at a rediscovered short film by the photographer Louis Faurer.
Ardeshir Mohassess: A Caricature of Fate
The National, Review, April 2, 2010
Carol Kino chronicles the life and death of Iran's great - and tragic - modern political artist.
View the print edition
Curator of Collections and Connections
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, March 21, 2010
Willow Weilan Hai Chang has put the China Institute on the map by mounting small, strategically focused exhibitions that illuminate different aspects of Chinese art and life.
Slide Show: Chinese Art and Life
A Garden With a Profusion of Ideas
The New York Times, Museums, March 18, 2010
Longwood Gardens in southeastern Pennsylvania is figuring out how to earn international recognition as one of the great gardens of the world.
A Rebel Form Gains Favor. Fights Ensue.
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, March 14, 2010 • featured on home page
With performance art now fashionable, there's a search for revenue that angers some artists.
Interactive Feature: Voices of Performance
Slide Show: "The Artist Is Present"
Video: 'Maria Abramovic Presents,' An Excerpt
Curating the world
The National, Review, February 12, 2010 • cover story
Put a finger on a globe and you'll touch one of their projects. Carol Kino reports from Gail and Barry Lords' museum-planning empire.
View the print edition
A Prodigal Son Returns
Art & Antiques, March 2010
A Trove of Robert Capa Photographs Finds a Home in His Native Hungary
View the print edition
Intense Seeker of Powerful Elegance
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, January 31, 2010
The very particular artist Steve McQueen gives up the fight and agrees to discuss his new work.
Interactive Feature: Anatomy of a Scene: 'Giardini'
The artist Steve McQueen discusses "Giardini," a 30-minute film about the Venice Biennale's festival grounds in winter.
For Tapestry, One More Renaissance
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, January 24, 2010
A tapestry project brings artists and artisans together.
Interactive Feature: Artists on Tapestries
Fred Tomaselli, Gavin Turk and Shazia Sikander discuss how their original work was translated into tapestry form for the show, "Banners of Persuasion," now at the James Cohan gallery.
Collective Consciousness
Art Basel Miami Beach, December 2009
Art Basel Miami Beach has always been regarded as something of a litmus test for the current creative and market climate, and a harbinger for the year to come. Here we present Miami's preeminent collectors - Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Martin Margulies, Mera and Don Rubell and Dennis and Debra Scholl - and their thoughts on the fair and beyond.
Fairy Tales, but Strictly Adults-Only
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, November 22, 2009
In his recent works, the ribald, pop-culture-obsessed provocateur known as Paul McCarthy has suddenly revealed himself to be an old master.
Slide Show: Paul McCarthy, Then and Now
Video: A Scene from "Painter"
Video: A Scene From "Whipping a Wall"
Video: A Scene From "Face Painting"
A Gallery Gadfly Revives His Act
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, November 15, 2009
A long-running gonzo video tour of the New York gallery scene from the '90s has returned to the airwaves, this time as a Web presence.
Video: Gallery Beat Meets Tracey Emin
Paul Hasegawa-Overacker interviews Tracey Emin at the Gramercy International art fair in 1995.
Art That Leaps Off the Canvas
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, November 1, 2009
A sprawling performance art festival is driven not by market forces but by a desire to amaze.
Audio Slide Show: Art in Performance
Hockney's Long Road Home
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, October 18, 2009
• cover story, featured on home page
A transplanted artist left the pools of Southern California for the landscapes of his native Yorkshire.
Audio Slide Show: An Artist's Homecoming
Video: "David Hockney: A Bigger Picture"
A World Drawn From Wild Tastes
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, October 4, 2009
Drawing and burlesque meet in Molly Crabapple's Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School.
Audio Slide Show: Burlesque Art
A Tribute to the Man, Beyond Just the Mouse
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, September 6, 2009
With technical wizardry and a cache of private mementos, a new museum honors Walt Disney.
Slide Show: Mickey Gets a Gallery
View the print edition
Returning the Gaze
The National, Review, August 21, 2009 • cover story
Until recently, curators and collectors in the West were embarrassed by Orientalist art. Carol Kino considers one small museum that never blushed.
View the print edition
Story Archive:
Style Magazine
Stories have also appeared in Vogue, Domino, New York, Time Out/New York, and a slew of art magazines, including Beaux Arts, Modern Painters and Artnews.
At Markson Thoma Literary Agency:
Contact Elaine
Contact Gary
