The American painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992), whose very large late paintings are the subject of an enchanting exhibition at Knoedler & Company, was often described in his lifetime as the youngest of the Abstract Expressionist painters of the New York School. He was indeed younger than Pollock, de Kooning and a few other artists in Read More
The American painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992), whose very large late paintings are the subject of an enchanting exhibition at Knoedler & Company, was often described in his lifetime as the youngest of the Abstract Expressionist painters of the New York School. He was indeed younger than Pollock, de Kooning and a few other artists in Read More
The modern mind doesn’t easily accommodate itself to the idea that the art of painting may sometimes achieve the status of a spiritual vocation. Christian iconography plays a central role in many of the paintings we regard as masterworks of Western art, and yet our response to those paintings tends, for the most part, to Read More
The Flemish painter Hans Memling (circa 1435-1494) is primarily remembered today for his meticulously executed paintings of religious subjects in the style of Rogier van der Weyden, with whom he is thought to have studied. Memling is also known to have excelled as a portrait painter, yet that aspect of his art has received less Read More
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped canvases are not discreetly installed in the usual MoMA manner Read More
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped canvases are not discreetly installed in the usual MoMA manner Read More
Fame hasn’t always been kind to the reputation of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), whose drawings are now featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s owing to his fame, after all, that van Gogh is still so often described as a deranged genius—the man who cut off his ear in a fit Read More
Fame hasn’t always been kind to the reputation of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), whose drawings are now featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s owing to his fame, after all, that van Gogh is still so often described as a deranged genius—the man who cut off his ear in a Read More
As its exclamatory title announces straightaway, the exhibition called Russia! at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an event that commands attention. Fortunately, it’s also an exhibition that rewards however much attention we can give it. For newcomers to Russian art—a large and complicated subject that involves politics and religion almost as much as art Read More
As its exclamatory title announces straightaway, the exhibition called Russia! at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an event that commands attention. Fortunately, it’s also an exhibition that rewards however much attention we can give it. For newcomers to Russian art—a large and complicated subject that involves politics and religion almost as much as art Read More
