Features December 2020
Michelangelo’s “thinking hand”
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On Michelangelo’s Pietà and the manifold meanings of its legendary gesture.
Topic: “Painting”
Features December 2020
Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush
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On artistic solitude & on A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art.
Nov 14, 2020
Past continuous
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On Wayne Thiebaud’s One-hundred-year-old Clown and the nature of influence.
Nov 03, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On George III, art by Sam Gilliam & Frank Auerbach, Marcel Proust & more from the world of culture.
Art November 2020
Pollock, Guggenheim & the “Mural”
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On a key work from Jackson Pollock’s early career.
Art November 2020
Exhibition note
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On “Jordan Casteel: Within Reach” at the New Museum, New York.
Sep 29, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On New York City Ballet, paintings from isolation, the Gilded Age & more from the world of culture.
Art October 2020
Exhibition note
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On “Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain” at the Pallant House Gallery, North Pallant, United Kingdom.
Art October 2020
Exhibition note
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On “Léon Spilliaert” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Art October 2020
Félix Fénéon at MOMA
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On “Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant Garde—from Signac to Matisse and Beyond” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.