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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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Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees
June 19, 2024This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and...
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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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Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
June 9, 2024For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
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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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The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17
June 4, 2024Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much...