Barry Schwabsky

Art Critic

Barry Schwabsky is the art critic of The Nation.

A Painter of Our Time A Painter of Our Time

Diego Velázquez was a restless innovator, a painter who slyly revealed the ordinariness of his exalted subjects--one is almost tempted to call him modern.

Dec 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Modern Love Modern Love

Two new biographies of Clement Greenberg take the measure of an ambitious art critic who had a knack for predicting success.

Sep 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Octoberfest Octoberfest

Four editors of October magazine trace the history of contemporary art. Though Art Since 1900 seeks to be comprehensive, its writers leave out entire movements and impose moralisti...

Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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