By Hilton Kramer 9/27/99 12:00am

The Paris 1900 Art Show? It’s Nostalgia, Not Art

In this last year of the 20th century, New Jersey’s Montclair Art Museum has mounted an exhibition that attempts to give us a glimpse of what established opinion in the United States regarded as the greatest achievements in American art at the first year of the century. Organized by Diane P. Fischer, associate curator of Read More

By Hilton Kramer 3/23/98 12:00am

Morgan Russell’s Fine Art: Thank You, Michelangelo!

In October 1913 there opened at the prestigious Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris an exhibition of modernist paintings by two American expatriate artists, Morgan Russell (then age 27) and Stanton Macdonald-Wright (then age 23). They called themselves-in the French spelling- Synchromistes , to underscore both the dominant role of color in determining the formal composition of Read More