Joan Miró (1893-1983) enjoyed one of the longest, most productive and provocative careers in the history of 20th-century art, and even now-nearly two decades after his death-he hasn’t lost the power to surprise his many admirers with something new. The exhibition called The Shape of Color: Joan Miró’s Painted Sculpture , which is currently on Read More
It was to be expected that, when the Morgan Library got around to mounting its first exhibitions of 20th-century art, they would be nothing less than a connoisseur’s delight. After all, a high and unhurried standard of connoisseurship has long been one of the hallmarks of the Morgan’s exhibition and acquisitions programs, and this is Read More
The first thing to be noted about the mammoth Surrealism exhibition that has now come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is that it was not organized by the Met itself. Surrealism: Desire Unbound, as this misshapen behemoth of a show is called, is a production of London’s Tate Modern, where it has already been Read More
