Oct 24, 2018
“Happy trees” and culture-death
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On a recent campaign to instate Bob Ross into the artistic canon.
On a recent campaign to instate Bob Ross into the artistic canon.
A review of American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden by Mary Schmidt Campbell.
On Andrew and Jamie Wyeth at the Farnsworth Art Museum and “John Bisbee: American Steel,” “Tom Burckhardt: Studio Flood,” and “Jocelyn Lee: The Appearance of Things” at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
On “Red Grooms: Handiwork, 1955–2018,” at Marlborough Contemporary, “Rackstraw Downes: Paintings & Drawings” at Betty Cuningham Gallery, “Graham Nickson: Cumulus, Monumental Trees and Transient Skies” at the New York Studio School, & the late Richard Timperio, gallerist at the legendary Sideshow in Williamsburg.
On “John Singer Sargent & Chicago’s Gilded Age” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
On “Canova’s George Washington” at The Frick Collection.
On Constable, colonial furniture, the perennial Pope & more from the world of culture.
On Willa Cather, Cos Cob, Connecticut, and The Country of the Pointed Firs.
On “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On “Outliers and American Vanguard Art” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.