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MANET WAS FIRST CALLED an iconoclast by his contemporaries; history has more than agreed. In fact, on that high road to what is popularly called modernism, Manet’s name is written…

A Tribute to Brian O’Doherty, edited by Brenda Moore-McCann

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Peter Schjeldahl, a critic whose elegant reviews in The New Yorker and, before that, The Village Voice, made him an indispensable guide to contemporar

Few critics could match the Minnesota-raised Schjeldahl for his intimate knowledge of New Yorks art world, which he wrote about with undiminished enthusiasm for more than a half-century.

Esteemed art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl died today at his home in Bovina, New York, at the age of 80.

Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.