The viability of an artistic tradition depends upon the determination and momentum an artist brings to it. We’ve all seen paintings, drawings or sculptures that reiterate firmly established conventions, often with appealing dexterity and patent intensity. They can be pleasing to look at. Invariably, though, they’re unnecessary—nostalgic glosses with noble intentions.
It’s one thing just Read More
The British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, whose Painted Sculpture exhibition is on view at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, has long enjoyed a highly successful career on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s a career that began in England in 1951 when Mr. Caro (as he then was) worked as a part-time studio assistant to Henry Moore, Read More
For aficionados of modern sculpture, it’s a stroke of good
fortune that the traveling exhibition devoted to the early work of the American
sculptor David Smith (1906-65) has come to New York-the
final stop on its national tour-at a moment when the Alberto Giacometti
retrospective (at the Museum of Modern Art) and the Henry Moore Read More
The big retrospective devoted to Henry Moore (1898-1986), which
has now come to the National Gallery of Art in Washington,
would be a capital event at almost any time. Yet this splendid exhibition is
especially compelling just now for anyone who comes to it from a recent visit
to the retrospective devoted to Alberto Giacometti Read More
