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About MMK
Biography
Key Publications by MMK
Media/News
Who Says That’s Art?
About the Book
Contents
Introductory Chapter
Images of Works Cited
Review Excerpts
What Readers Say
Artworld Myths Debunked
Honors
Supporters
Where to Buy Who Says That’s Art?
Bucking the Artworld
About the Book
Preface
Images of Works Cited
Reviews
Publicity
Blog
About For Piero’s Sake
Archive
Other Work
On Art Education
What Art Is
Aristos
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Piero and Perspective: Art and Science
January 18, 2025
Where I’m Coming From
January 6, 2024
Kenneth M. Lansing, 1925–2022: A Voice in the Wilderness of Art Education
February 14, 2023
Art Education Update
August 20, 2022
Honoring America’s Promissory Note
July 4, 2022
Debunking Jasper Johns
January 31, 2022
Delving into an Incomparable Work of Renaissance Portraiture
October 8, 2021
Lessons on Education from Books Our Children Read
September 4, 2021
Revisiting Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini “Wedding” Portrait
November 17, 2020
Remembering Howard McP. Davis
October 20, 2020
Art History Gone Amuck
October 2, 2020
Art Critics or Political Agitators/Activists? (redacted)
June 27, 2020
The Rehumanization of Public Art
January 23, 2020
Dismaying Exhibition of De Waal Installations at the Frick
June 23, 2019
The Art of Critical Spinning
June 4, 2019
Teaching (New) Media Art
May 12, 2019
What Semmelweis Taught Me
April 14, 2019
Build Kindness not Walls—More Art Ed Nonsense
January 30, 2019
My Contrarian View of Contemporary Art
December 18, 2018
An Open Letter to the Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 5, 2018
Devotion to Drawing
August 7, 2018
Old and New Art — Continuity vs. Rupture
June 7, 2018
Whither Saudi Art?
April 16, 2018
The Truth about Pop Art
March 1, 2018
What’s Wrong with Today’s Protest Art?
February 11, 2018
A Toilet Is a Toilet Is a Toilet
January 27, 2018
Award-Winning Critic Maligns Ayn Rand’s Theory of Art
January 16, 2018
Chinese Translation in Progress
January 11, 2018
Michelangelo's Humor
November 11, 2017
National Arts in Education Week—Should We Celebrate?
September 10, 2017
How Not to Teach Art History
August 7, 2017
Contemporary Art Worth Knowing
June 9, 2017
Fake Art—the Rauschenberg Phenomenon
May 24, 2017
Lively NAEA Debate on 'Who Says That’s Art?'
March 12, 2017
Valentin Who?—A Neglected French Master Spotlighted at the Met
October 19, 2016
“See something, say something” Redux
September 23, 2016
How NOT to Be an Arts Advocate
September 1, 2016
Healthy Debate in Academia
August 3, 2016
Jousting with Mark Rothko’s Son
June 22, 2016
Barking Up the Wrong Trees in Art Education
May 12, 2016
Met Rooftop Folly: Cornelia Parker’s 'PsychoBarn'
April 26, 2016
Kudos for This Student Protest!
April 5, 2016
Little Mattress Girl Moves On and Up in the Artworld
February 19, 2016
Response to My Stuckist Critics
January 9, 2016
“If you see something, say something.”
December 7, 2015
An Open Letter to Art Educator Jerome Hausman
November 16, 2015
That’s Not What I Wrote
October 23, 2015
The Creative Process behind an American Masterpiece—Bingham's 'Fur Traders Descending the Missouri'
August 27, 2015
Duchamp or the Baroness?—What Difference Does It Make?
August 2, 2015
"Public Art" for Whom?
May 5, 2015
Two Exhibitions Worth Praising
April 22, 2015
Folded Paper and Other Modern "Drawings"
March 31, 2015
About For Piero's Sake
March 27, 2015
Is Ai Weiwei an Artist?
February 11, 2015
Cy Twombly in Mr. Morgan's House?
February 3, 2015
In Memoriam: Lucylee Chiles (1941-2013)
December 23, 2014
Slings and Arrows (not the TV variety!)
December 11, 2014
Who Says That’s Art? A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts.
November 8, 2014