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,...
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...
Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
May 16, 2024De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
May 15, 2024Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
May 12, 2024Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
May 9, 2024More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 5, 2024Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
May 5, 2024Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
Beauty & Bounty: American Art in the Age of Exploration, Seattle Art Museum
May 1, 2024The highlight of the gallery would have to be the three paintings by lesser-known artist Martin...
Stacey Steers’ Night Hunter
April 27, 2024Here, Gish finds herself amidst a riot of Freudian imagery – snakes, earthworms, and phallic blades...