Topic: “Art”

The Critic’s Notebook

On Pace Gallery, Larry Groff, Riccardo Muti, Georgian-era churches, Matisse & more from the world of culture.

On The Turner Prize, the Iliad & Shakespeare.

On “Treasures in black & white” at the Petit Palais, Paris.

On “Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language,” at Musée du Luxembourg, Paris.

On “Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift” at the Morgan Library & Museum.

On “Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings—Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey,” at the Morgan Museum & Library.

On “Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting,” at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth.

On Greek colonies, Etruscan tombs & Italian origins.

On wokeism, Manet and Degas, Balanchine, Selinunte & more from the world of culture.