Impressionism & Modern Art
It takes guts to put on an exhibition with as dry a title as “A Brief History of Lines” at the Pompidou Center-Metz during the dead of winter, with the museum surrounded by snow. But this show, which is up through April 1, and which consists almost...
LONDON — The Royal Academy’s blockbuster show “Manet: Portraying Life” is a fascinating walk through the career of one of European modernity’s most striking figures. It potently illustrates the unique position the artist occupies in late 19th-century art...
Last week, I finally visited the Met’s stellar exhibition, “Matisse: In Search of True Painting.” The show was, as I hoped, a refreshingly engaging experience that breaks down Henri Matisse’s meticulous and academic painting process into sections,...
WHAT: “Chagall and the Circle of Jewish Painters of the 20th Century”WHEN: December 4 – January 5, 2013WHERE: Wally Findlay Galleries International, Inc., 165 Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, FLWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: The celebrated modernist master has...
WHAT: “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde”WHEN: November 18 — February, 2013WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: While World War II devastated the Japan’s infrastructure, the ’50s and ’60s were a time of...
NEW YORK — Christie’s had plenty of excuses for a weak evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on Wednesday evening, ranging from terrible weather to a falling stock market and possibly negative reactions to a second term for a Democratic president...
No, there aren’t any Kangaroos in the background, and good old Mona isn’t flanked by gum trees. In fact, the Australian copy of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which is about to go on display at the National Library of Australia in Canberra, is...
There's something quite ironic in Bridget Riley — an artist who made a name for herself with black-and-white abstractions — picking up the Sikkens Prize for color in her work. But then again, Britain's grande dame of abstract art has a career full of...
WHAT: “Becoming Van Gogh”WHEN: October 21 – January 20, 2013WHERE: Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, ColoradoWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: Vincent Van Gogh seems to be having a moment – or a decade. In 2008 MoMA staged “Van Gogh and...
Buoyed by the legend of its $120-million sale to secretive financial kingpin Leon Black and its fathomless cultural cachet, I would be surprised if MoMA’s pocket-sized exhibition dedicated to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” which opened yesterday, didn’t...
