Old Masters

The development of Gustav Klimt’s artistic style is studied in a new exhibition. By Gabriel Almeida Gustav Klimt is one of the foremost painters of fin-de-siecle Vienna, and his pictures are widely recognized today for their radical combination of physical realism, technical virtuosity and exploration of a world of instincts and emotions. A prodigious student…

The Albuquerque Museum of Art gives visitors an inside look of the life an artist with its exhibition Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration. By James D. Balestrieri If an artist’s studio is an extension of the artist’s creative mind—the space where the artist’s art is conceived, worked out and brought to fruition—then preserving and…

The artwork from Alez Katz’s eight-decade career chronicles moments of life as they were and are now. By Lilly Wei Alex Katz turned 95 this past July. That’s hard to believe when looking at the artist and his work since both are characterized by an energy and presence that a 30-year-old might envy. He has…

Perspective is put to the test in the new exhibition Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. By James D. Balestrieri Cubism, like Trompe l’Oeil painting, with which it is paired in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition”, seems like a magic trick,…

The U.S. debut of select Flemish masterworks provide context of the changing culture and society across the 15th through 17th centuries. By Gabriel Almeida An exhibition with artworks of over 300 years, and showing side-by-side paintings of masters like Brueghel, Bosch, Patinir and Rubens, always presents a unique opportunity to reflect on the changes of…

The art of Fanny Sanín has an open-ended quality that allows viewers the freedom to explore the abstract elements. By Rebecca Allan From her inviting, well-ordered studio overlooking upper Manhattan and illuminated by northern light, the painter Fanny Sanín slides open the drawer of a large flat file brimming with decades of work. She locates…

An international exhibition on Henri Matisse spotlights a pivotal and developmental period of the master’s career. By Lilly Wei Henri Matisse is having a moment, it might be said, if this giant of 20th-century art has ever needed one. Still, the innovative installation that re-created The Red Studio (1911) at the Museum of Modern Art…

The importance of the arts in Tudor England is surveyed in a new exhibition at The Met. By James D. Balestrieri In school, Shakespeare sat on the highest literary pedestal. His genius seemed to come from out of the blue, and flourish on a rarified plane all its own. In truth, as “The Tudors: Art…