National Gallery of Art
Mother and Child Reunion: The Frick’s Tiny Blockbuster
Cimabue
Blockbuster exhibitions are defined by their scope and scale. read more »
The Met’s Main Event: Brilliant Art Dealer Vollard
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Flagellation of Christ (c. 1280), by Cimabue (c. 1240-1302)
How predictable is the Met’s fall schedule? read more »
The Met's Main Event: Brilliant Art Dealer Vollard
How predictable is the Met’s fall schedule? read more »
Standing at the Altar: Raphael Reconstructed
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Raphael
At a symposium a few years back, a critic of some note insisted that art lovers should dedicate thei read more »
My Crumb Collection Goes to Vassar— But Is It Art?
Considering all the trouble cartoons have caused in the world lately, it was with some trepidation t read more »
France Shows Off Its Favorite Genre:Sex and Ironing
French painting from the 18th century is justly famous for its preoccupation with the pursuit of ear read more »
Romare Bearden Tied His Work to Race, But Was a Cubist
With certain exhibitions, this writer finds himself in a position not so much to "review" them as to read more »
At Last, Vuillard: Mammoth Collection of Painter's Epochs
We've had to wait a very long time to see a full-scale retrospective devoted to the work of the Fren read more »
Meet Goya's Women: They Hang in D.C., In From Madrid
It's been said of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), whose work is currentl read more »
After All These Years, Henry Moore Is Great
The big retrospective devoted to Henry Moore (1898-1986), whichhas now come to the National Gallery read more »
Why Give So Much Space To Lightweight Twombly?
When was the last time you saw a major American museumdevote 10 large galleries to the sculpture of read more »
Yes, Vermeers Are Here, In a Dense Delft Show
A mere five years after the great Vermeer exhibition at theNational Gallery of Art in Washington, D. read more »
Majestic Stieglitz Show Charts Modernist Course
Of the many things to be said about the extraordinary exhibition called Modern Art and America: Alfr read more »
Art Nouveau Was Neither, Vast Exhibition Shows
The exhibition of Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 , organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and read more »
Pious Medieval Sculptures Land in Fallen New York
Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art who approach the current Tilman Riemenschneider exhibitio read more »
Titian? Nice. But Where's the Gift Shop?
This space rarely, if ever, runs service pieces. read more »
Rembrandt Painted Himself With Total Lack of Vanity
It is unlikely that the arguments still circulating about Rembrandt's motives in producing so many s read more »
Perfect Ingres Portraits, Down to the Buttonholes
There are times when it is the curious fate of an artist to achieve his greatest work as a consequen read more »
Rush Hour at the Museums! The Impressionists Return
Of the mounting of exhibitions devoted to the masters of Impressionism there appears to be no end. read more »
Saluting Alexander Calder, American Painter in Paris
In the retrospective devoted to Alexander Calder: 1898-1976 at the National Gallery of Art in Washin read more »
Pious French Paintings in Sinful New York City
When it comes to renouncing the vanities of worldly life, most of us are quite content to leave such read more »
Obscure Venetian Misfit Deserves a Lotto Praise
It cannot have been easy to work in the shadow of Titian, especially if-like Lorenzo Lotto (circa 14 read more »
