By Elisa Lipsky-Karasz. Photos by Adrian Gaut.
courtesy of Wall Street Journal Magazine
Elisa Lipsky-KaraszNew York,
A blustery dusk falls over New York’s Fifth Avenue as the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes for the night. Visitors file down the imposing stone steps, pausing to watch ...
Emily S. MendelCA,
Berkeley, California, a small city with a big reputation, is famous for its branch of the University of California, with its high academic achievement, as well as its liberal politics, free speech movement and its sophisticated performing and visual arts.
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Frances WilsonLondon,
In the great panoramic panels of water lilies which Claude Monet painted in the final years of his life, one has the sense of an artist who was so familiar with his subject matter that the creation of these arresting ...
Paula FarmerNew York,
Despite the potential cold and snow that New York can be in the winter, it’s worth going for all to see and do. Not least of which is the current Picasso exhibit at the MoMA- “Picasso ...
Mary NguyenLondon,
Many are not familiar with the work of Alexander Calder (1898 -1976) but this new exhibition, surveying over 100 pieces of the American modernist's work, has been neatly curated to rectify this. The Tate Modern has introduced the ...
Mary NguyenLondon,
Dulwich Picture Gallery unveils Maurits Cornelis Escher's (1898-1972) curious and mind boggling illustrations, woodcuts and lithographs for this once in a lifetime exhibition. Escher mastered the technique to capture geometric shapes and extraordinary imagery onto stone and wood which sprouted ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
The fresh and exciting new exhibit at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (the CJM), displays 14 large pieces that combine art and technology by nine talented artists. Commissioned specifically for this exhibit, the work consists of fascinating and ...
Frances WilsonLondon,
This timely major new exhibition of 150 photographs by acclaimed photographer Lee Miller portrays women’s experiences during the Second World War and reflects Miller’s unique insight as a woman and a photographer whose sharply observed and sensitively nuanced ...
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
It's an unsettling experience, standing in front of the little pen and ink study which the Spanish artist Goya made of himself in 1795. He may in fact be concentrating on his own image in a mirror, but it's easy ...
Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville
Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
Two new exhibits at the impressive Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco displaying luxury goods are worthy of note. One is a retrospective of the work of the innovative watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet and his successors displaying more ...
