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Memory Map
A New Exhibition at the Whitney Museum Explores Questions of Identity and Tradition Through Works of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith By Scarlet Cheng The new exhibition “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map,” which just opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (through August 13, 2023), is a landmark in so many ways. With…
Italians in Space
“Edmondo Bacci: Energy and Light” Lands in Venice for Visit to Peggy Guggenheim Collection’s Orbit By William Corwin Much to the consternation of the Poles and their star astronomer Copernicus, because of Galileo, the Italians have long been credited with the discovery of the idea of outer space. This national fascination with astronomy, as well…
Lit From Within
“The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany” Exhibition at Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art Highlights Tiffany’s Expansive Creative Powers By James D. Balestrieri Louis Comfort Tiffany’s father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was one of the co-founders of Tiffany & Co., a name we still associate the with finest decorative arts, silver, jewelry, and glass. But son Louis…
The Temptations of Cecily Brown
The “Death and the Maid” show invites reflection through timeless memento mori, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Lilly Wei When London-born artist Cecily Brown landed in New York City, where she has lived ever since, it was 1994, about a year after graduating from the Slade School of Art. She came to the…
The Power of Art in Times of Terror
“In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art,” at SMU’s Meadows Museum By Dian Parker In 1937, Picasso painted the famous Guernica as a way of protesting the leveling of a small Basque village by German aerial bombers under General Francisco Franco’s command. Most of the civilians killed in Guernica, Spain,…
Room to Imagine
“Life & Death in the Ancient World” at the Tampa Museum of Art harkens to antiquity for reminders of the power of shared human experiences By James D. Balestrieri In the age of the highly focused, thematic museum show, “Life & Death in the Ancient World,” an exhibition with a narrow-beam thesis that aims to…
The Gift of a Painter
Oswaldo Vigas at the Boca Raton Museum of Art By Isaac Aden The gift of a painter is to slow time and make it remain forever in an instant, yet infinitely relevant. Oswaldo Vigas (1926–2014) was a masterful painter of modernist abstraction gifted with astonishing vigor. Vigas’s artistic valor and dedication earned him a…
Closer to Vermeer
Called “the largest Johannes Vermeer exhibition ever,” the Rijksmuseum’s revelatory window on the Dutch master’s world allows rare glimpse into mystery and meaning. Sarah Bochicchio Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is easily one of the most iconic, most reproduced, most beloved paintings of all time. The artwork vacillates between great intimacy, curiosity, and…
Wrestling with Cézanne: Picasso Landscapes
Charlotte’s Mint Museum Showcases Cubist Pioneer’s Painted Treasures By William Corwin The project of Cubism instigated by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque was a ménage à trois with a third, ghostly partner: Paul Cézanne. Cézanne’s presence in the relationship, as well as his own obsession with landscape, meant that genre of painting defined the movement’s…