You can count the number of New York museums still committed to the cause of high art on the fingers of one hand. Perhaps the most enduring of those fingers is the Morgan Library. The Morgan has always been a gem, of course; New York’s cultural heritage would be poorer without it. Yet now, at Read More
What a difference a month makes. From mid-January through mid-February, the Danese Gallery mounted an overview of contemporary abstract painting and sculpture titled Abstract Redux . On the evening of Valentine’s Day, Danese opened its current exhibition. Titled Fei Fei Drawings , it features the recent works on paper of Bill Jensen, the American abstract Read More
Of the many ironies-some comical, but many truly tragic-that
punctuated the career of the American painter Louis Eilshemius (1864-1941),
whose work is currently the subject of an enchanting exhibition at the National
Academy of Design, the most poignant is the fact that his paintings did not
begin to win the attention and praise they deserved Read More
