Nov 27, 2018
Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum
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My relationship to Warhol’s art has been full of tension. I used to hate it - the obviousness of it, the surface, the refusal to say something serious....
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Oct 24, 2018
Egon Schiele and Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Foundation Louis Vuitton
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When Foundation Louis Vuitton opened several years ago in Paris, it joined a slew of those manufactured by the newly minted patrons of the arts who have made such incredible amounts of money that they could build not private collections but entire museums; people like...
Oct 22, 2018
Caravaggio at Musée Jacquemart-André
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It’s one of those things you find out about and your jaw drops to the floor....
Sep 13, 2018
Bacon / Giacometti
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This has been another marquee year for the European titans of mid-century art....
Sep 12, 2018
Chaim Soutine: Flesh
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I generally try to see every exhibition of Chaim Soutine’s paintings that can I manage to get to and of those that I can’t I try to track down the catalogue....
Sep 11, 2018
Chiharu Shiota: Under the Skin
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I don’t remember the first time I encountered the work of Chiharu Shiota, but I remember being immediately drawn to it....
Aug 30, 2018
Brancusi at the MoMa and the Guggenheim
To the rather inelegant but often-asked question, “Who is your daddy?”, modern sculpture can assuredly answer, “Constantin Brancusi.”...
Aug 29, 2018
Alberto Giacometti at the Guggenheim New York
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The Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who spent most of his working life in Paris, is by now widely considered to be one of the most important artists of the 20th Century....
Aug 28, 2018
Yugoslavian Modernist Architecture at the MoMa
When it comes to Communist countries, their image in aesthetic terms is uniformly bleak....
Jul 19, 2018
M.C. Escher in Brooklyn
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The Dutch artist Maurits Cornelius Escher is a bit of a strange figure. Not exactly a mainstay of art history, certainly outside of the main art movements of the 20th Century, he is not known for any grandiose statement or gesture or a moment-defining work....