Diane Arbus. Woman with white gloves and a pocket book, N.Y.C. 1956.

diane arbus: in the beginning

San Francisco,
SF MOMA’s remarkable new exhibit of early works by the brilliant photographer, Diane Arbus (1923-1971) contains about taken by the artist in New York City between 1956 and 1962. Imaginatively installed in six galleries on the third  ...
Frank Stella,

Frank Stella: A Retrospective

San Francisco,
I’ve appreciated and admired Frank Stella’s abstract art for many years, but the de Young Museum’s exciting retrospective enriched my understanding of Stella as an artist and a man. A smaller continuation of an exhibition  ...
Paul Nash,

Paul Nash (Tate Britain)

London,
How serious were the British about Modern art? When the first Post-Impressionist exhibition arrived in London in 1910, students at the Slade School of Art were banned from attending, for fear it would corrupt them, although  ...
from REPORT (film,1963-1967).

Bruce Conner: It’s All True

San Francisco,
This fascinating first retrospective of the diverse oeuvre of Bruce Conner (1933-2008) contains more than 250 objects in many media — painting, film, video, assemblage, drawing, collage, print, photography, photogram and performance, which were mostly created in San Francisco over  ...
The Taking of Christ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 1602 © The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Beyond Caravaggio

London,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, bad boy of Baroque art, defier of precedence and authority, produced strikingly original and emotionally-charged paintings in his short life. Dramatically lit and rich in colour and gesture, his work had an immediate impact on  ...
Woman in a Hat (Olga) left; Portrait of Olga Picasso. right.

Picasso Portraits

London,
Revolutionary though the art of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) may have been, at its core was the human figure, and portraiture was always an important part of his output. In association with the Museu Picasso Barcelona, the  ...