Monday, June 17, 2019
The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.
The post Book Review: A Concise, Conscientious Guide to …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Jean-Philppe Blondel’s books are especially praised by critics for their charm and smoothly-shaped prose.
The post Book Review: “Exposed” — Between Two Incompatible Worlds appeared f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:18PMFriday, March 22, 2019
In more pedantic hands, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen could easily have been a tedious and frustrating read. Instead, despite the dense and ultimately inconclusive source material, the book is…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:41PMSaturday, December 15, 2018
Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Life, Death & Revelry explores the aura of the Farnese Sarcophagus from several points of view, including those of the conservators who recently cleaned it of decades of accumulated gri…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMFriday, July 27, 2018
To modern sensibilities, Frederic Edwin Church’s field sketches and early studies, with their virtuoso spontaneity and unmediated naturalism, may have more appeal than his epic paintings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:12PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Mary Lee Bendolph’s designs are stunning works of contemporary design, lacking any taint of provincialism, with as much visual sophistication as you would find in any New York gallery.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
The delightful Wadsworth installation is a fitting setting for the beloved artist and illustrator and the work he himself loved.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:18PMFriday, March 9, 2018
There are no angels in Mark Rothko’s work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:29PMFriday, November 3, 2017
Pierpont Morgan's art collection grew directly from the rich soil of his many obsessions and intricate, sometimes even enigmatic, personal agendas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:36PMThursday, October 1, 2015
The premise of the show, and especially the catalogue, is to put Corita Kent her rightful place in the pantheon of major American Pop artists
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
In Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
In Arlene Shechet's mischievous hands, the medium’s power as a shape shifter runs wild.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMMonday, July 13, 2015
Walking, the deCordova's fascinating and wonderfully worked out exhibition suggests, is deeply subversive of the status quo.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:58AMWednesday, July 8, 2015
While American art grew bolder, larger, louder, and more ironic, David Aronson was mystical, introspective, and poetic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56AMSunday, May 31, 2015
Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:08PMFriday, April 10, 2015
The photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
Some of J.M.W. Turner’s most personal, experimental, and enigmatic works have been selected for this show. They are also among the most fragile and least often shown.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:30AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
His art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests than Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:09AMTuesday, June 17, 2014
After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMThursday, May 29, 2014
How much can a “native” artist adopt from Western modernism before his arts loses its tribal identity and, along with it, its appeal to an outside market?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
For once, in Ronald Reagan’s America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Chris Daze Ellis takes a serious risk. If you hang your work next to Berenice Abbott's, it had better be as brilliantly framed, as firmly direct, and as perfectly focused as hers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:00PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:19PMFriday, April 18, 2014
For both artist and curators, this is one of the great honors of the American art world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Far from being the cool, detached, and cerebral creations of the color field artists, these quilts, imagined in their intended context, are deeply personal, sensuous, and alive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:45AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
It is difficult to describe how moving these simple, mundane objects are in the context of this exhibition.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:38AMSunday, January 19, 2014
Cohen devotes little space to Bernard Berenson’s art historical methodology, now largely superseded by modern approaches. She relates Berenson’s less admirable qualities without judging …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:44PMSunday, March 17, 2013
In some ways, Jonathan Jones’ narrative structure works against his strengths. Highly respected as a critic, he is an energetic and engaging writer and excels at what art historians call �…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:38AMMonday, March 4, 2013
The month's standouts include Nick Cave's Soundsuits at the Peabody-Essex Museum and two exhibitions at MassMoCA.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57PMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Standout exhibitions starting up in January include a show that celebrates Islamic Art at Harvard’s Sackler Museum.
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