Category: Essays & Criticisn

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…