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Art Review: “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 7, 2024And 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
September 1, 2024So 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
August 15, 2024The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
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Architecture and Modernism
July 22, 2024For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...
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Art for a New Gilded Age
July 22, 2024Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
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Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 15, 2024The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
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John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 10, 2024Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
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The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 8, 2024Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
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Art Review: Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful, Denver Art Museum
July 5, 2024The pair make their way through a crowded New York park. At the woman’s neck, a...
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Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
June 30, 2024But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...