The paintings of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541-1614) fall into two distinct categories–the sacred and the secular. The artist relocated…
Art & Architecture
Intricately cut and assembled sculptures of paper. Brightly colored porcelain horns that actually can be played. Lamps made of different…
A major Chagall retrospective is approached with some trepidation. One of the most accessible artists of the 20th century, Chagall’s…
The earliest man-made glass objects, mainly non-transparent glass beads, are thought to date back to around 3500 BC, based on…
There’s irony in the trajectory of Philip Guston’s long and distinguished career as a painter. As a boy, he drew…
Chile has made a relatively small impression on the world cultural scene. In literature, the country claims two Nobel laureates,…
Not until the 1960’s was the term "Art Deco" coined to describe the style that swept the world in the…
The first thing to confront visitors to the William Pope.L eRacism exhibit at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts is…
Jealousy, fear, spite, exhilaration, a deep respect – all are evident in the decades-long interaction between Henri Matisse and Pablo…
There is only one painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman show: "St. Jerome Praying…
Andreas Gursky, Shanghai, 2000; � Andreas Gursky. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, and Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne Gursky is…
Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art February 9 – May 25, 2003 The Lucian Freud retrospective is a rich…
At the end of the twentieth century, Paris’ magnificent Gare d’Orsay train station was transformed into a great museum, the…
San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts January 25 – April 6, 2003 Charles LeDray, an autodidact, is a…