Emily S. MendelCA,
The day was warm and the campus was quiet when my aunt and I toured two neighboring, but vastly dissimilar, art museums at Stanford University. We were there primarily to see the two new exciting acquisitions at the ...
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Nineteen sculptures by Chicago-born sculptor Charles Ray fill three large galleries on the second floor of the Art Institute’s Modern Wing through October 4. Most of the pieces are figurative and tell their own stories, like “Sleeping Woman,” a life-size ...
Jacky Colliss HarveyLondon,
What to make of Alice Anderson's show at the Wellcome, Memory Movement Memory Objects? What indeed to make of the artist herself – soft-spoken intense, with a French accent at odds with her name, and a ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
If you’re a fan or are merely curious about the late Grammy award-winning jazz/blues singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), and you’re able to get to San Francisco, you are in luck. After listening carefully to her music, ...
Frances WilsonLondon,
Joseph Cornell is one of the most famous yet enigmatic characters in twentieth-century American art. A leading exponent of collage and assemblage, and a connoisseur of an astonishing range of subjects, including astronomical charts and geographical ...
Mary NguyenLondon,
Audrey Hepburn had an extraordinary life, from her childhood as a ballerina, to her first taste of the theatre spotlight and becoming a Hollywood star. She became such an iconic figure that fashion designers were lining ...
A look at the smaller traveling version of the London blockbuster
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
“Painting Set Free” is a remarkable exhibit highlighting the late works of the great British romantic landscape and seascape painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). The outstanding works on canvas and paper display Turner’s oeuvre, beginning in 1835, when Turner ...
Frances WilsonLondon,
The British sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) enjoys a pre-eminent position in twentieth-century British sculpture, second only to Henry Moore, and this new exhibition at London’s Tate Britain celebrates her work in the first major retrospective for ...
Mary NguyenLondon,
When we put on a brand new pair of shoes “we have pleasure, but suffer a little bit of pain” says Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A) curator Helen Persson on the opening of her unique exhibition, Pleasure and ...
With the overwhelming format reined in this year, visitors can appreciate a wonderful snapshot of contemporary art.
Frances WilsonLondon,
It’s hard to be dispassionate about the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Now in its 247th year, the exhibition has been held annually, without interruption, since 1769, the year after King George III founded the Royal Academy Schools in ...
