Exploring the formal and thematic frictions within Winslow Homer’s paintings on view in the Met’s “fairly perfect exhibition,” Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents.
“Holbein: Capturing Character” is up at the Morgan Library, and notwithstanding the reductive title, the show is a testament to the age of European humanism, and specifically to Hans Holbein’s role in painting its most prominent personalities.
Three recent exhibitions of note
What an exhibition of over one hundred New York City scenes amassed by a real estate scion captures of the city and reveals about the collector.
There are at least two poles in Lennart Anderson’s work, poles that you see him gravitating towards and veering away from throughout his life: Anderson the dogged and humble observer of nature, but also Anderson the formal constructor and inventor.
Kollwitz’s art was both a response to the suffering of others and a processing of personal experience. For Kollwitz, character born of hardship was indistinguishable from—lo, was the necessary source of—beauty.
Reviews
Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture at the Frick Collection
Feb 27, 2019, 12:41 PM
Giovanni Battista Moroni receives his first retrospective in this country.
Two major exhibitions at the Peabody Essex Museum.
The Gilded Age of Drawing in America, now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents three dozen remarkable and rarely seen drawings by artists, both famous and lesser known.
Galerie St. Etienne’s The Woman Question: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka is a showcase of figure draftsmanship and a master class in linear economy.