Arthur C. Danto is a professor of philosophy at Columbia and an art critic for the Nation. Beyond the Brillo Box: Art in the Post-Historical Period will be published this year.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum contains in an annex a covert Robert Mapplethorpe gallery, a sober exhibition space which, like the masterpieces of its namesake, seems consecrated to the...
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