“Why Art Became Ugly” — image links updated

I wrote this piece in 2003 — my explanation of how two lines of development of modern art culminated in postmodernism. The 29 images from Munch, Picasso, Dali, Warhol, Saville, and others used to illustrate the trendlines now have updated links.

The article has also been translated into German, Spanish, Korean, and Portuguese.

Related:

* Taking Modern Artists at Their Word. September 2014. Translation into Portuguese.
* The Most Important Artist of the Century. Guess who? Translation into Portuguese.
* Does Martin Creed Speak for All of Us?. On Creed’s 2016 retrospective at New York’s Armory, and what the sad-sack irritant’s significance is for the contemporary art world.
* The feature image above is from Millie Brown’s contribution to postmodernism.
* An earlier version of the article was delivered as a lecture in New York at the Foundation for the Advancement of Art .