It is Ruth Bernhard’s year. San Francisco’s Ansel Adams Center mounted an exhibition of her work in April, J.J. Brookings…
Art & Architecture
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 6 – October 2, 2001 Stranger Passing is a collection of some 65…
Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation (1998), David Mitchinson, editor Art must be seen in…
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza was one of the heirs to the great Thyssen steel fortune and is a canny capitalist…
Driving in from the airport, topping a rise, central Bilbao comes into view, nestled in a valley on the River…
Picasso’s War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World (2002), Russell Martin If art heals the…
an outstanding catalogue of the painting collection, published by the museum Mythology & History in the Great Paintings of the…
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, a lively component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, has scored a…
The initial impact of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s exhibition of a dozen black-and-white "portraits" at San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery derives from sheer…
Pier Francesco Fiorentino, Virgin Mary and Child with John the Baptist, Angels and The Holy Father 15the century photo credit:…
Graffiti Art, Abstract Expressionism, poetry. One searches for words to describe the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat which is currently on…
Bronze human head with gold mask Shang dynasty Figure of a kneeling archer Qin Dynasty Two golden tree appliques Tang…
In her 1925 self portrait, photographer Germaine Krull (1897-1985) keeps her face mostly hidden and in soft focus, while her…
Other suggested reading: Black Sun-The Eyes of Four: Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography (1986), Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Muriyama, et….