A review of Paula Modersohn-Becker at Galerie St. Etienne by Jerry Weiss.
A survey of the Renaissance master’s drawings lands in New York.
Deattributions often go unnoticed, in large part because nobody wants to publicize them. Conversely, it’s news when an artwork is promoted to the canon of a master.
Jerry Weiss writes about Paul Gauguin and John Singer Sargent in the September issue of The Artist’s Magazine.
The necessity to impress patrons tinges everything Sargent painted; ever the master of prestidigitation, even in his relaxed moments he is a thoroughly public artist. No other major painter’s manual dexterity is so central to his identity.
Painter Jerry Weiss isn’t so sure Flaming June is the best picture in the room at the Frick Collection.
The Museum of Biblical Art closes its run with a memorable show of twenty-three works representing the pinnacle of Florentine sculpture in the early Renaissance, never before seen in this country until now.
The Migration Series is treated less as art than as a point of departure for a walk-through documentary.
Two current exhibitions feature notable painters of the urban scene, Richard Estes and John Dubrow.
Voyeurs in Virgin Territory, a show of nineteenth-century landscape painting on view at Questroyal Fine Art, is a beauty.