Graham T. Beck
Most Recently: ‘Greater New York’ by the Numbers
Graham T. Beck writes about art, cities, the environment and his problems.
‘Greater New York’ by the Numbers
In order to really remember anything about an exhibition as big as ‘Greater New York', you have to forget a lot of it. Though this third iteration of PS1's quinquennial survey is smaller than ever before, it still features 68 up-and-coming New Yorkers spread over four floors. To write a review of all that, you have to forget even more. Attention spans can't accommodate that many artists nor that much art, and neither can word counts or column inches or casual readers. READ MORE
The Picasso Sale: World’s Most Expensive Artwork and My Whiskey Chocolate Chili
Last night, Pablo Picasso's Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (1932) fetched more at auction than any artwork in history ($106.5 million!) for the same reason that my whiskey chocolate chili never wins the annual firehouse cook off: popularity, whether measured in US dollars or cayenne-smudged secret ballots, has everything to do with the lowest common denominator. READ MORE
