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Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 24, 2024Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps Wheatfield...
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Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
June 21, 2024This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the...
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Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum
June 15, 2024In 1959, he referred to esteemed critic Clement Greenberg and others as “wandering mongrels” only able...
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Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 14, 2024In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
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Art Review: Two Chinese Exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum
June 13, 2024This was a world in which the color of the glass finial on one’s hat indicated...
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West of Center: Art and the Countercultural Experiment in America, 1965 -1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
June 12, 2024Earnest rather than ironic, unashamedly idealistic, unafraid of appearing amateurish and haphazard, many of the contents...
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Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
June 8, 2024After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum
May 28, 2024The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of...
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Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 27, 2024Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
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Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
May 22, 2024Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...