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Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012): Some Brazilian Contexts
June 27, 2023The city of Brasília may have been an isolated phenomenon, rising on its remote and featureless...
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Art Review: Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, Denver Art Museum
June 21, 2023Her canvases are vast, and painted in bold swathes of cartoonishly bright colors. The subject matter...
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The Female Gaze and Modern Women at PAFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
June 14, 2023In Neel’s painting, the sitter’s beauty is not compromised by her pregnant condition and makes no...
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Art Review: Drawing Surrealism, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
June 8, 2023Serious or concerted intellectual effort had no part in the process of creating Surrealist art –...
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Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
May 29, 2023Portraits at the Stock Exchange reveals a truth about the age of the Impressionists that often...
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Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
May 25, 2023The Pre-Raphaelites shared several treasured ideals, but their painting styles varied greatly. The two transcendent themes,...
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Art Review: “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 19, 2023And what is true of Blagdon’s poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of...
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Art Review: Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico, Denver Art Museum
May 12, 2023So many amateur painters have painted the swelling volumes of the church of San Francisco de...
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Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
April 24, 2023The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
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Architecture and Modernism
March 30, 2023For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...