The Met’s retrospective of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) ) did just what a museum retrospective should do: it presented key major works in historical context and gave an overall view of the artist’s development from his early work to his finish. It’s a show unlikely to be replicated, as most works are held by German […]
The exhibition opening this week at the Getty (with previous and future stops at the Musee d’Orsay and Art Institute of Chicago) is subtitled “Painting Men” and purports to address for the first time “the central place he accorded [men] in his painting” and “the singular way in which [he] saw his male subjects.” There’s […]
As the overall sponsors, the Getty undoubtedly had a leg up on creating an exhibition that fit into PST’s “Art & Science Collide” theme, and they took advantage by pulling together “Lumen: The Art and Science of Light.” There was one remarkable object after another, a plurality from England but extraordinary loans also from Italy, […]
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