Art September 2023
Emphatic Edmondson
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On “William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision” at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
On “William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision” at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
On David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor by Michael Brenson.
On “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color” at the Met.
On “Charles Ray: Figure Ground” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On “Gilded Figures: Wood and Clay Made Flesh” at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, and “Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library” at the Grolier Club, New York.
On the French artist’s bronze reliefs of a female nude.
On “Lynn Chadwick: Exploring the Abstract, 60 years on” at Willer, London.
On the life and work of the twentieth-century American sculptor.
On Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton.
On the willful myopia of the press and its readership.