Based on a quick (two-hour) first visit to the new Met galleries devoted to the broadly-defined lands of the Middle East, my favorite object isn’t even in those eleven rooms: it is the painting of a Cairo mosque by Jean-Leon Gerome that is cleverly placed in the adjoining Paintings gallery featuring the Met’s Orientalist collection. […]
I caught up with Christian Marclay’s The Clock again this weekend, this time at one of its new permanent homes, Boston’s MFA. The couches were comfy and the exhibition space was off the beaten track; the audience was small but committed and the viewing experience a good one. The second time around, the novelty of […]
Business and family in Manchester, VT and Essex, CT allowed me to check out some of the smaller, local attractions that would normally fall under the art radar. Some were surprises, some disappointments, but all were worth the detour. The biggest show, and biggest letdown, was “Pissaro’s People” at the Clark in Williamstown. While I […]
Just as you can’t judge a painting by an auction catalogue, it’s hard to predict from press notices which shows will catch your attention or linger in your mind; thus, the days I spent going to galleries and museums in New York this June held surprises, both favorable and un-. First, then, the winners and […]
Not wanting to be seen as totally negative, after posts on the Worst Paintings and the horrors of Glazing, and returning to Minneapolis after six months in California, I toured the MIA’s third floor to pick out 20 paintings I couldn’t do without. That is to say, I am not purporting to call these […]
A group from the Santa Barbara Museum Airbused down to LA to visit the Getty Center and the Getty Villa, with an emphasis on Asia and photography, as those were the two curators joining us. In all, there were three independent, but somewhat similar, exhibitions: “Early Photography in China,” “Felice Beato: A Photographer on the […]
When I went to see The Clock at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea I had no idea what to expect, thanks to curator David Little’s warning not to read about it beforehand. Based on the work’s title, I was not surprised when each movie clip that appeared on the big screen had a timepiece […]
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