By Hilton Kramer 2/24/03 12:00am

MoMA Extravaganza of Matisse-Picasso A Great Exhibition

Reviewing an exhibition of the Paul Guillaume Collection in Paris in July 1929, the critic Adolph Basler offered the following observations: “It was a bad day for this Iberian genius [Picasso] …. The unanimous opinion of the visitors condemned out of hand metamorphoses of such a prolific form of aestheticism. The pictures of the Spanish Read More

By Hilton Kramer 7/15/02 12:00am

Mega-MoMA Mania: How is Van Gogh Hanging in QNS?

About the move that the Museum of Modern Art has now made from its world-famous facility on West 53rd Street to temporary quarters on Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, everyone with a serious interest in art is bound to have mixed feelings. Those of us who are used to visiting MoMA’s galleries on a Read More