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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…
Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.
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…
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.
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.
The delightful Wadsworth installation is a fitting setting for the beloved artist and illustrator and the work he himself loved.
There are no angels in Mark Rothko's work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.
Pierpont Morgan's art collection grew directly from the rich soil of his many obsessions and intricate, sometimes even enigmatic, personal agendas.
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
In Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.
In Arlene Shechet's mischievous hands, the medium's power as a shape shifter runs wild.
Walking, the deCordova's fascinating and wonderfully worked out exhibition suggests, is deeply subversive of the status quo.
While American art grew bolder, larger, louder, and more ironic, David Aronson was mystical, introspective, and poetic.
Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko's narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.
The photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.
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.
His art's sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests than Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.
After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.
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?
For once, in Ronald Reagan's America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.
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.
Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?
For both artist and curators, this is one of the great honors of the American art world.