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