All posts tagged "art modern"
Art & Design
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 18, 2026Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
Russia
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Disability
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
June 29, 2026Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....

After Image
Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
March 26, 2026On another note entirely, the eighth and final episode offers the enduring pleasures of Hughes’s prickly...

Art
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 8, 2026It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...
Art
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...

After Image
The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
November 12, 2025His sculptures, like his wonderful Elephant of 1929-1930, or his Chimpanzee of 1928, were often carved...

Art
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 12, 2025Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
Art
Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 26, 2025Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
Art
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
August 7, 2025While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...








