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Roger Kimball on the trend away from art in art history.

WRITING IN 1973 for Art International, Douglas Crimp reviewed Blythe Bohnen at New York’s A.I.R. (Artists in Residence Inc.) Gallery, the landmark women’s cooperative that opened in 1972, of which the artist was a founding member. That same year, she completed her MFA at Hunter College and was included in the “Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Brushstroke,” the near-taxonomic series that Bohnen had started in 1968—and which included 48 Brushstrokes, 1971, a matrix of gesture, instantiated and recalled, that was reproduced o...

Galleries like Hauser & Wirth, Pace, Lehmann Maupin, and others have recruited top museum curators to join their ranks.

Artnet News's National Art Critic, Ben Davis, looks back over the highs, lows, and head-scratching cultural moments of the past month.

Learn about collecting fine art, jewelry, wine, decorative objects and more with the Art People at Christie's.