Claude Monet, La Grenouillère, 1869. Oil on canvas,.

Monet: The Early Years

San Francisco,
“Monet: The Early Years” is visually gorgeous and academically significant. Presenting Monet’s work from the early phase of his career (1858-1872) starting when Monet was 18 years old and ending when he turned 32, the show traces the development  ...
Red Pots in the Garden 2000. Private collection, courtesy Guggenheim Asher Associates

David Hockney: 60 years of work

London,
In the year of the artist’s 80th birthday, Tate Britain presents a survey of almost 60 years of David Hockney’s work in the first major retrospective for nearly 30 years and already the gallery’s fastest-selling exhibition. David Hockney  ...
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  ...