It’s not often that an experienced critic finds himself confronting the work of an “unknown” painter—unknown, that is, to the critic—only to discover that he’s looking at the paintings of a master talent. But this was my experience upon visiting the exhibition of paintings by the Cuban artist Tomás Sánchez (b. 1948) at the Marlborough Read More
It is rare to encounter contemporary American paintings and drawings governed by a religious perspective, and rarer still for a contemporary artist to speak of “the divine” as a subject of new works of art. For most of us, anyway, serious religious painting is an aesthetic enterprise we associate with the distant past, if only Read More
What can we look forward to–or, for that matter, not look forward to–in the 2001-2 art-exhibition season? The good news is that the season starts off with a big Louis Eilshemius exhibition at the National Academy of Design (Sept. 19 to Dec. 30) and a major retrospective devoted to Alberto Giacometti at the Museum of Read More
