I’m willing to bet my Observer paycheck that the same number of people who attended the exhibition of still lifes by Evaristo Baschenis, a 17th-century Italian painter, a few years back at the Met-not many-will be visiting the Frick Collection’s current exhibition, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette . I don’t mean to Read More
Subtle Pleasures of Still Life
Blossom in Specialist Show
I’m willing to bet my Observer paycheck that the same number of people who attended the exhibition of still lifes by Evaristo Baschenis, a 17th-century Italian painter, a few years back at the Met-not many-will be visiting the Frick Collection’s current exhibition, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter Read More
Certainty is not an attribute that immediately springs to mind when we think of 20th-century art. A certain anxiety-a Cézannean doubt-is one of the defining hallmarks of the modernist enterprise. Until, that is, the advent of Minimalism, an ethos so certain of its rightness, both aesthetic and historic, that it stands in the causeway of Read More
I see that, in the press release for the current exhibition of sculpture by Tony Smith (1912-1980) and Christopher Wilmarth (1943-1987) at Hirschl & Adler Modern, it is claimed that Smith “is often thought to be the father of Minimal sculpture.” Indeed, a work called Die , which was exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Read More
