Contents

Preface to the Columbia University Press Edition

Preface

Introduction: Art Criticism After the End of Art

Whitney Biennial 2000

“Making Choices” at MoMA

Chardin

Tilman Riemenschneider

Damien Hirst

Barbara Kruger

Yoko Ono

Sean Scully

Paul McCarthy

Sol LeWitt

Renee Cox: Yo Mama’s Last Supper

William Kentridge

Picasso Érotique

Art and 9/11

Philip Guston

Philip Guston: The Nixon Drawings

Alberto Giacometti

Norman Rockwell

Surrealism and Eroticism

Artemisia Gentileschi

Gerhard Richter

Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime

Joan Mitchell

The Art of 9/11: One Year Later

Reflections on Robert Mangold’s Curled Figure and Column Paintings

The Park Avenue Cubists

Leonardo’s Drawings

Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle

Christian Schad and the Sachlichkeit of Sex

Kazimir Malevich

Max Beckmann

Whitney Biennial 2004

John Currin

Dieter Roth

Banality and Celebration: The Art of Jeff Koons

Two Installations by Joshua Neustein

Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art; Or: What Ever Happened to Beauty?

The World as Warehouse: Fluxus and Philosophy

Painting and Politics

The Fly in the Fly Bottle: The Explanation and Critical Judgment of Works of Art

Index