Newspaper Art Critics Rush to Defend 'Solid Cool' of Obama Portraits

Tim Graham
February 12th, 2018 1:16 PM
While traditionalists surely looked quizzically at the contemporary portraits that Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned for display in the National Portrait Gallery, one could count on The Washington Post and The New York Times to explain how wonderfully revolutionary the Obamas were to promote African-American painters to overturn the "bland propriety" of white traditions. 
 

NYT Critics Blame Paid Museum Admission on ‘Ruling Class' 'Jim Crow'

Clay Waters
January 5th, 2018 6:30 PM
New York Times art critics Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith reacted with horror, and socialist tropes, to news that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan was making its “suggested fee” of $25 mandatory for non-New Yorkers: “The Museum Should Be Open to All.” 
 

NY Times Art Critic Cheers Stretching Gender 'To the Snapping Point'

Tim Graham
October 6th, 2017 11:04 PM
On September 29, New York Times art critic Holland Cotter championed an exhibit of “queer” and trans art under the headline “When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign." The exhibit at the New Museum in Manhattan is titled “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.” Cotter cheered breaking down "the binary male-female face-off" and stretching "the perimeters of gender to the snapping point."
 

NYT Bias Seeps Onto Arts Pages With Rants on Racist Voter Suppression

Clay Waters
May 22nd, 2016 6:05 PM
Left-wing bias; it’s not just for the news pages. The New York Times Weekend Arts roundup demonstrates how it saturates the paper, even -- perhaps especially -- in the paper’s Manhattan-centric cultural coverage, with rants about racist voter suppression in 2016 and how high-end art buyers "control the inequitable economy in America today."
 

NYTimes Art Critic Takes on 'Noxious Vibes Emanating' from the Ultra-R

Clay Waters
December 21st, 2011 7:42 AM
New York Times art critic Holland Cotter’s year-i- review piece Sunday opened with an awkward metaphorical shout-out to the lefty park-squatters of Occupy Wall Street and an excoriation of the “noxious” 1 percent: “Complacency Butts Up Against Game Changers”: "...art-worldlings did at least adopt one thing from the Occupy Wall Street movement: a new identifying label for the source of…
 

NYT Art Critic Celebrates Nostalgia for Soviet Union Over Headline 'Wh

Clay Waters
July 22nd, 2011 12:26 PM
One can hardly imagine a newspaper running a headline that suggested a fascist society like Nazi Germany had its good points. Yet the New York Times has carved out a side industry in headlines that suggest a bright side to Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The latest came attached to art critic Holland Cotter’s 1,700-word review of “Ostalgia,” an exhibit of Soviet and…