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Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
March 28, 2022On another note entirely, the eighth and final episode offers the enduring pleasures of Hughes’s prickly...
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American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
March 25, 2022But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 16, 2022To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 10, 2022It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...
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Art Review: Graphic Design: Now in Production, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
March 7, 2022Lovers of advertising, of the internet and interactivity, of reading and the media, sit back and...
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Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
March 1, 2022As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...
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Art Review: Becoming Van Gogh, Denver Art Museum
February 24, 2022But it was at that moment that he discovered Japanese prints, rapidly assimilating all he could...
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Art Review: Picasso Black and White
February 12, 2022The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the perfect venue for hosting great chronological exhibitions...
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Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 4, 2022Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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Art Review: Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, Denver Art Museum
January 26, 2022Her canvases are vast, and painted in bold swathes of cartoonishly bright colors. The subject matter...