Old Masters

Interview: Michael Rush, Head of Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum

Michael Rush tells Ted Loos about his new position as head of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State, his old one at the ill-fated Rose Museum at Brandeis, and how he got to be a curator in the first place.

Latin Masters

Before the Second World War, in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Uruguay, and elsewhere, another American modernism was taking shape.

Made in Japan

Postwar avant-garde movements like Gutai and Mono-ha are now getting some serious attention from Western museums and galleries.

Norman Bluhm, Chariot, 1965, oil on canvas (triptych)

Norman Bluhm: The Greatest Abstract Expressionist You’ve Never Heard Of

Norman Bluhm is the greatest Abstract Expressionist painters you’ve never heard of. Or if you have heard of him, you’re part of a select group of aficionados.

Forging a New Art

What happens when artists imitate their imitators? By Jonathon Keats In the first few months of 1963, the Mona Lisa was seen by nearly two million people in New York and Washington, D.C. Shipped to the United States on a diplomatic mission – escorted by the French culture minister and received by President John F….

It’s Complicated

Wristwatches that do a lot more than tell time are very much of the moment. By Jonathon Keats On Christmas Day, 1969, Seiko introduced the Astron, the world’s first quartz wristwatch. While it wasn’t cheap—at 450,000 yen, it cost the same as a new Toyota—within several years, inexpensive Japanese quartz threatened to put traditional Swiss…