Submissions From bigthink.com

 "People will always hold differing opinions on explanatory wall text in museums. " (Bob Duggan)

 "Van Gogh's almost maniacally prolific years of painting belie the fact that he was a thoughtful craftsman." (Bob Duggan)

 " Lush, delicate, charming, and soulful, Renoir might be the greatest movie about painting ever." (Bob Duggan)

 "When most people think of Impressionism, they may think of flowers, haystacks, water lilies, dancers, and even nude bathers, but rarely of haute couture caught on canvas. " (Bob Duggan)

 "Painting and Photography: 1839-1914 outlines how what started as competition soon became an alliance of vision that changed the way we see forever." (Bob Duggan)

 "Hirst's kitschy spot paintings stood naked for what they were-unashamedly naked appeals for art prices based solely on name recognition, with not creative capital to back it up." (Bob Duggan)

 "For the third year running, here's a very personal, very subjective, "I can't read everything, so I probably left out something, so mention it in the comments, OK?" list of the best art books of 2012 in no particular order, along with links to my reviews." (Bob Duggan)

 "Even if you can't make it to Times Squre to see Yoko Ono's IMAGINE PEACE in person, you can still imagine peace in your heart." (Bob Duggan)

 "If art can help us hold onto memories, can it help us when we lose them to aging or disease?" (Bob Duggan)

 "People work in the arts, people pay for the arts, and people travel to view the arts." (Bob Duggan)

 "Perhaps museum patrons should receive some education before entering galleries. " (Bob Duggan)

 "Photography documents not just the person before the camera, but also the person behind it. " (Bob Duggan)

 "As movements and periods came and went for the chameleon Picasso, the simplicity of working in black and white always remained. " (Bob Duggan)

 "Bursting onto a scene desperate for a savior, can ArtLeaks be the Wikileaks of the art world?" (Bob Duggan)

 "Perhaps the one unavoidable fact all museums must face is the reality of limited space." (Bob Duggan)

 "For the low, low price of 75 cents you can own a Warhol and have yourself some lunch for the bargain." (Bob Duggan)

 "But if an artist's studio is a window into his soul, then a walk through Andrew Wyeth's tour is a journey into the darkest and brightest depths of his art." (Bob Duggan)

 "If you're suffering from sensory overload from all the biographical videos and group-tested backdrops, then a dose of these artists might be just what you need." (Bob Duggan)

 "Walk through any Van Gogh exhibition on Earth and you'll come out the other side drunk on color." (Bob Duggan)

 "If you want to see the real Klimt, the Klimt I love, you'll have to go to Vienna in 2012." (Bob Duggan)

 "Krimmel's genre scene of Americans celebrating America back then allows us to see how our celebration today mirrors and, perhaps, distorts what our ancestors saw as most important for our country." (Bob Duggan)

 "The idea of artists running museums sounds to many like allowing the inmates to run the asylum." (Bob Duggan)

 "Despite mountains of research findings, arts programs in schools fall under the austerity ax faster than any other extracurricular." (Bob Duggan)

 "Museums haven't always been as gender equal as they are today, not that all museums are gender equal." (Bob Duggan)

 " Just when you want to apply a label of good or evil, this show makes you step back and think." (Bob Duggan)

 "The fact that most people who know anything about Tanner know him through his depictions of African-American life in The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor is a great misrepresentation of who he was as an artist." (Bob Duggan)

 "Once a piece of art enters the flow of art history, does anyone have the right to pull it out?" (Bob Duggan)

 "Andrew Graham-Dixon, who has been called the most gifted art critic of his generation, revisits the scandalous, sensational life of Italian painter Caravaggio and finds in it one model for success in troubled times." (Jason Got)

 "Knowing the risks, should the Mona Lisa's smile be saved?" (Bob Duggan)

 "By pulling her pants down and defacing Clyfford Still's painting 1957-J No. 2 (PH-401) (shown above, from 1957) last week at The Clyfford Still Museum, Carmen Lucette Tisch stumbled drunkenly into the annals of art vandals and, however misguidedly, art critics. " (Bob Duggan)

 "If you're like most people, you've already broken your New Year's resolutions." (Bob Duggan)

 "Continuing a tradition I started last year, here's a very personal, very subjective, "I can't read everything, so I probably left out something, so mention it in the comments, OK?" list of the best art books of 2012 in no particular order, along with links to my reviews." (Bob Duggan)

 "Forget for a moment Banksy the brand and imagine Banksy the social commentator." (Bob Duggan)

 "There's a creative, hard-working 99% out there that suffers first from Hirst and Koons sucking up all the oxygen and publicity and secondly from the media allowing itself to be suckered into facilitating the farce." (Bob Duggan)

 "In a generation or so, another association may come to mind: art mecca." (Bob Duggan)

 "Today, December 1st, marks the 23rd observance of Day With(out) Art, the art world's way of observing World AIDS Day." (Bob Duggan)

 "When you look for the roots of the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving, you won't find it in the stuffing or the cranberries (and certainly not in an Aleppo pepper rub) they're in the simple idea of human, not just American, freedom." (Bob Duggan)

 "It will be fascinating to watch how The Clyfford Still Museum accomplishes its mission." (Bob Duggan)

 "The planners of Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art couldn't have anticipated the Occupy movement, but the timing of this exhibition couldn't be more perfect." (Bob Duggan)

 "Andy Warhol still makes headlines, and you should, too." (Bob Duggan)

 "The latest accusations blowing in the wind involve not Dylan's style or songs, but rather his beloved hobby-painting." (Bob Duggan)

 "Unfortunately, Facebook's rules against certain kinds of material, specifically nudes, threatens to censor artists who depict the human body." (Bob Duggan)

 "We see everything now through the filter of September 11th, yet we can still lose sight of that changed reality." (Bob Duggan)

 "Mideo Cruz's Kulo show at the Cultural Center of the Philippines certainly caught the attention of the public, as I'm sure Cruz intended." (Bob Duggan)

 "To study a Poussin is to enter a state of meditation. Too much thought is the opposite of terror." (Bob Duggan)

 " Crystal Bridges hopes to reflect the history of America through art - a cultural repository of what are nation has been and is." (Bob Duggan)

 "In that holiest of cities for Catholics, is the statue of John Paul II a sin against public art?" (Bob Duggan)

 "With that reprioritizing of the creative act over the creation itself, Rodin set the stage for every modern art movement that followed." (Bob Duggan)

 "The little non-Western art that graces their walls seems to be almost exclusively contemporary art - a troubling development considering how homogenous today's art has become in an international market driven by what sells." (Bob Duggan)

 " I'm not sure where artist Richard Prince would fall on the Eliot scale, but according to Manhattan federal court judge Deborah Batts, he's legally a thief." (Bob Duggan)

 "This study helps art lovers argue that people, even those who don't like abstract art, know art when they see it." (Bob Duggan)

 "When women entered the picture, suddenly the same painting lacked the qualities experts found previously. " (Bob Duggan)

 "Google, however, has taken virtual museum-going to a new level with Google Art Project, a consortium of 17 museums around the world sharing not only gigapixel versions of works in their collections, but also allowing you to "stroll" virtually through their galleries. " (Bob Duggan)

 "Thanks to a new advertising campaign, 500 Big Apple taxis will be known for something great-great art." (Bob Duggan)

 "After taking a stroll through The Cloisters in New York City with a friend, Baker came away thinking that what today's art needs is some of that old time religion, a passionate devotion "[n]ot to God, but to the work itself," Baker writes." (Bob Duggan)

 "The state of the art of art in the United States and beyond in 2010 reflected the larger unrest of the world itself." (Bob Duggan)

 "Here is one reviewer's highly subjective, highly personal list (in no particular order) of some of the biggest "big thinks" in the art publishing world of the past year." (Bob Duggan)

 " If you're trying to teach a child the alphabet of life, you can do no better than starting with "A Is for Art Museum."" (Bob Duggan)

 "Instead of banishing Wojnarowicz's video to obscurity, conservatives calling for its removal have instead given the late artist a second life and the widespread media attention that comes equally from fame or infamy." (Bob Duggan)

 "At the heart of this great "selling out" rests the question of who decides what is to be sold." (Bob Duggan)