New Museum, NYC http://newmuseum.org/ Reprinted from CV writer Susan Yung’s blog for WNET PBS New York http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/arts/after-nature Walking over to…
Art & Architecture
As someone old enough to have been aware of Richard Serra’s career for most of the forty years this show…
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Legion of Honor June 21–September 21, 2008 http://www.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=794 San Francisco is the only venue for…
Monet’s early painting, Garden at Sainte-Adresse, has been so often reproduced that it is familiar to most anyone with even…
Glass: Material Matters is the first exhibition of contemporary glass art ever organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of…
The 1998 blockbuster Calder retrospective drew nearly 300,000 visitors to Washington’s National Gallery and drew huge crowds when it was…
After all these years of looking at Warhol, I’m still trying to figure out where the art ends and the…
The new de Young Museum’s major opening exhibition is Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, which attempts to dispel myths shrouding…
The Saxe Collection and the Kiki Smith installation When I was a very young man I had a great desire…
Taking its name from the reign of Emperor Taisho (1912-1926),the Taisho Era designates a brief but dynamic period of cultural…
The sprawlingly inclusive use of media by artists today marks the work of Rebecca Horn, born in Germany in 1944…
Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) is labeled a social realist due to a predilection for the subject matter of ordinary people. The…
Richard Tuttle is hardly a household name, like, say, his better-known contemporaries Sol Lewitt or Ellsworth Kelly. Art lovers may…
Even an uncaptioned photograph of a building by architect Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Bilbao, Disney Hall) is unmistakably identifiable as his…