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....
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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....
Apr 26, 2018
Barry X Ball at Villa Panza in Varese
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The prolific artist and sculpture Barry X Ball, a recurrent figure of our art reportage, has announced The End of History, a retrospective of Ball's work from 1982 to today....
Apr 25, 2018
Takashi Murakami at the Vancouver Art Gallery
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At times the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has irritated me to no end. My first major encounter with his work was at the highly irritating (see?!) 2008 Brooklyn Museum exhibition that was so sponsored by Louis Vuitton. Well, it was more like highjacked by Louis...