Nicholas MarloweLondon,
The inspiration for this show was the National Gallery’s acquisition of a painting by Camille Corot, “the Italian Woman”, from the estate of Lucian Freud after the artist’s death in 2011. It turns out that over 70 works ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
A splendid exhibition of almost 150 of the finest art from Taiwan’s National Palace Museum in Taipei, half of which have never before been seen in the U.S., now graces San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum and will travel to the ...
Frances WilsonLondon,
Tate Modern, housed in a former 1950s power station on the south bank of the river Thames has, since its opening in 2000, become a visual marker on the London skyline, along with the London Eye, the Gherkin and Big ...
Art & Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
Pride of place in the first room of this exhibition goes to a vast and very odd painting, "The Disruption Portrait", by the 19th-century artist David Octavius Hill. Twenty-three years in the making, it depicts the ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
Almost three years from the date of its closing, the greatly enlarged and revitalized SFMOMA is reopening to almost universal oohs and aahs, with of course, a few negatives among a small handful of naysayers. But don’t count ...
Michael McDonaghSan Francisco,
Appearances are deceiving or are they? When we see something for the first time do we really see it and if so can we see it again as if for the first time? Can beauty be pinned down like ...
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
In 1974 Michael Craig-Martin exhibited an ordinary glass of water on a shelf, the type you normally find in bathrooms, and called it "An Oak Tree." That’s what it was, because that's what he said it ...
Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
It is a long story, but Los Angeles was able to permanently woo the Mapplethorpe archive away from his home stomping grounds of New York, mounting an extensive exhibition which has engaged the resources of both LACMA ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
What do Sarah Jessica Parker, Laura Bush, Taylor Swift, Diana Vreeland, HRH Princess Maria-Chantal of Greece, and Rhianna have in common? Dresses and gowns they have worn are exhibited at the de Young Museum’s super-glam show, “Oscar de la Renta: ...
Frances WilsonLondon,
If you visit London’s National Portrait Gallery, you’re likely to bump into some eminent Russian poets, artists, musicians, writers and patrons in addition to the Gallery’s large collection of British portraits.
“Russia and the Arts: The Age of ...
