M.H. Miller

Dec 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | M.H. Miller

The art fair Art Basel Miami Beach, and the satellite events that have emerged around it, collectively known as Miami Art Week, have been held the first week of December every year since 2002, except in 2020 because of the pandemic. But even that year, Libbie Mugrabi, the ex-wife of the art dealer David Mugrabi, riding high from an enormous divorce settlement, threw a lavish dinner at the Faena Hotel. ("I can do whatever I want with it," she told The New York Times of the payout.

Sep 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | M.H. Miller

There's a common misconception about the art business that states that, within the industry, there are essentially no rules. True, it's a vast and murky marketplace with few regulations, but to succeed as an artist within it has often meant, for many, following quite a number of rules. Chief among them is showing up.

Sep 16, 2024 | nytimes.com | M.H. Miller

IN THE SUMMER of 1970, as part of the group exhibition " Information," one of the first major surveys of conceptual art, the artist Hans Haacke presented a work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "Poll of MoMA Visitors." Museumgoers were given slips of paper to deposit into one of two plexiglass boxes. On the wall was a sign about Nelson Rockefeller, then in his third term as governor of New York and running for a fourth.

Jun 19, 2024 | taustralia.com.au | M.H. Miller |Brendan Embser |Emmanuel Iduma |Lucy McKeon

Let’s get this out of the way first: Of the dozens of photographers not represented here that a reasonable person might expect to have been included, the most conspicuous absentees include Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Richard Avedon, Dawoud Bey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Roy DeCarava, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Irving Penn.

Jun 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | M.H. Miller |Brendan Embser |Emmanuel Iduma |Lucy McKeon

The boy in "Boy With a Straw Hat" doesn't look like a typical Arbus subject. Wearing a prim collared shirt, bow-tie and boater hat, with one American flag at his side and another, much smaller one twisted into a bow on his lapel, the thin-lipped paradegoer seems like the paragon of anodyne conservatism.