Interview

As a model, the 32-year-old Knuts has inspired enough artists to fill a small museum, but this month she is filling a museum with a very different body of work-one she has curated. UltraMegaLore explores Knuts's roles as image maker and image selector.

How do you define the current state of American art when America itself seems more cross-cultural, convoluted, and conflicted than ever? An exclusive preview of this year’s Whitney Biennial

There's great irony in the fact that Rob Pruitt is the man putting together the Guggenheim’s First Annual Art Awards, a sort of tongue-and-cheek version of the Oscars for contemporary American art. It’s the kind of irony more befitting a Hollywood film script than the New York art scene. On October 29, before an assemblage of heavyweights in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda, faux-champagne-bottle-in-ice-bucket lamp awards will be doled out to the winners of Solo Show of the Year, Group Show of the Year, Curator of the Year, and Artist of the Year, among a myriad of other categories.

A mid-career retrospective is a lot like a midlife crisis, but the nomadic dutch photographer has
lived—and captured—so many lives, his exhibition is more a party than a cause for alarm