The American painter Jacob Lawrence, who died last year at
the age of 82, had the good fortune to enjoy a long and cordial association
with the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.. The connection dated from
1941, when the museum’s founder, Duncan Phillips, acquired the 30 odd-numbered
panels from the artist’s 60-picture Migration
Series on Read More
The recent death of any individual is likely to put their life and achievement into high and not necessarily lucid relief loss can breed hyperbole. So, I wonder, was the astonishment I experienced while attending the memorial retrospective of paintings by Jacob Lawrence, currently on view at DC Moore Gallery, intensified by the artist’s death Read More
This week I have the melancholy task of returning once again to the harlequinade called MoMA 2000 at the Museum of Modern Art. On my last visit to this ill-conceived museological entertainment, the full complement of the 24 separate exhibitions that are brought together under the rubric of Making Choices had not yet been completed. Read More
