By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 22 OCTOBER 2012 — The artist who wants to make a living by his art who does not accept that he is running a small…
Category: Essays & Criticisn
COMMENT: ROLLING STONES 50 & COUNTING TOUR IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL (BUT I MANAGED TO SCORE A TICKET)
By Alan Behr NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, 25 DECEMBER 2012 — If they are to endure, improvisations that arise from communal experiences will refine themselves into ritual. So it was at…
GALA GLITTERS AS WALL STREET SHATTERS
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 25 SEPTEMBER 2008 – Investment banks were either imploding, restructuring or surrendering their independence, stocks were falling and Congress was debating an emergency bailout package…
IN HIS OWN IMAGE: SHEPARD FAIREY FIGHTS TO REDEFINE COPYRIGHT LAW
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 3 MARCH 2009 I. Don’t Fight the Law. It May Simply Change its Mind. Even a few years ago, street artists such as Shepard Fairey…
LISTENING TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF RALPH GIBSON
By Alan Behr PARIS, 1 MAY 2018 — When you have what, in photography, could be called celebrity status and have held that honor for close to half a century,…
COMMENT: CATTELAN'S 'AMERICA' AT THE GUGGENHEIM
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 1 OCTOBER 2016 — The spiraling rotunda of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was closed recently, the floor filled with great crates in natural wood and…
RIPPLE EFFECT: LEO CASTELLI AND THE BIRTH OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 7 MAY 2010 — Whether Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, the Picasso painting that a few days ago sold for a record-breaking $106.5 million, is…
BOOK REVIEW ITALIAN STYLE — FASHION SINCE 1945
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 8 DECEMBER 2015 — One of the mysteries that Italy presents to the world is how style seems to come so naturally and happen so…
CARTIER-BRESSON AND THE DECISIVE MOMENT
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 7 JUNE 2010 — Although time has vindicated those who include photography among the fine arts, current trends have made artistic credibility rather difficult to retain…
REVIEW: BRITAIN'S BILL BRANDT AT MoMA
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 18 JULY 2013 — If Susan Sontag was right that photography flourishes in warrior cultures, Britain should have contributed to photography in parallel to its…