By Hilton Kramer 10/22/01 12:00am

The Near-Great Signac Gets Very Big Exhibit

It has been said of the French artist and writer Paul Signac

that he was an “almost-great painter.” Something along the lines of this highly

equivocal judgment, which recognizes extraordinary talent while denying it the

highest accolade, has long been the established view of Signac’s place in the

canon of modern painting. It was therefore Read More

By Hilton Kramer 9/10/01 12:00am

From Eilshemius Show, Auguring of Good Season

What can we look forward to–or, for that matter, not look forward to–in the 2001-2 art-exhibition season? The good news is that the season starts off with a big Louis Eilshemius exhibition at the National Academy of Design (Sept. 19 to Dec. 30) and a major retrospective devoted to Alberto Giacometti at the Museum of Read More