Pablo Picasso
MoMA, Guggenheim Battle for Picassos
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The artist, with Brigitte Bardot.
Restitution strikes again! The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation are currently in court battling a German scholar who claims their Picasso paintings were rightfully owned by his Jewish great uncle, who was persecuted in Nazi Germany.
Lesson One of Picasso Bio: Don’t Be a Muse!
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The artist in his studio, in the 1920’s.
In this, the third installment of John Richardson’s epic biography of Picasso, we find that the artist, age 36, having been spurned by two mistresses to whom he’d proposed marriage, has fled wartime Paris for Rome and fallen in with the Ballets Russes. read more »
Reckoning, If Not Repaying, New World’s Debt to Picasso
Master mimic: Arshile Gorky
“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how read more »
Reckoning, If Not Repaying, New World's Debt to Picasso
“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, th read more »
Evans Crafts Valiant Gestures Out of Cut-Rate Materials
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Mute dignity: Garth Evans
The viability of an artistic tradition depends upon the determination and momentum an artist brings read more »
Big Dealer: Sharp-Eyed Patron Pushed the Paris Avant-Garde
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En garde! Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Anyone extolling the virtues of Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Gar read more »
Big Dealer: Sharp-Eyed Patron Pushed the Paris Avant-Garde
Anyone extolling the virtues of Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, at read more »
The Met’s Main Event: Brilliant Art Dealer Vollard
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Flagellation of Christ (c. 1280), by Cimabue (c. 1240-1302)
How predictable is the Met’s fall schedule? read more »
The Met's Main Event: Brilliant Art Dealer Vollard
How predictable is the Met’s fall schedule? read more »
Smooth Around the Edges: Pollock Thrives on Paper
Jackson Pollock
No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, at the Solomon R. read more »
Much Ado About the Morgan: Architecture Celebrates Itself
The Morgan Library
Damn that Frank Lloyd Wright. read more »
Turning His Back on the Exotic, A Novelist Explores Home Turf
Miriam Berkley
David Mitchell
Black Swan Green is exactly what one wanted from David Mitchell, whose first three novels have been read more »
Three Worlds, One Book: Rieff Tries to Explain It All
The form in which we most often encounter sociology is David Brooks or Malcolm Gladwell, taking us o read more »
The Lessons of Modernism, Minus the Mystery of Space
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David Smith with Australia, 1951.
David Smith (1906-1965) is generally considered the most significant American sculptor of the 20th c read more »
Fact, Fiction and the Theater: Truth Is, We Prefer Lies
As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. read more »
Fact, Fiction and the Theater: Truth Is, We Prefer Lies
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John Osborne.
As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. read more »
He Was That He Was: A Place For John Graham in Art's Firmament
As far as dirty old men go, the American painter John Graham (1886-1961), whose art is the subject o read more »
He Was That He Was: A Place For John Graham in Art’s Firmament
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John Graham
As far as dirty old men go, the American painter John Graham (1886-1961), whose art is the subject o read more »
Do You Trust Your Super? What About His Friends?
Urban living presents many dilemmas, and one of them—perhaps not quite the most acute, but sig read more »
Do You Trust Your Super? What About His Friends?
Urban living presents many dilemmas, and one of them—perhaps not quite the most acute, but signifi read more »
Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War
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Not a pretty picture: Otto Dix's Skull, 1924.
Given the horrific history of Germany in the modern era, it was not to be expected that German art f read more »
Schmattes of Matisse: Painter Was Obsessed With Textile Design
It’s odd now to recall a time when the word “decorative,” as applied to the paintings of Matis read more »
Schmattes of Matisse: Painter Was Obsessed With Textile Design
At once pleasing and aesthetically profound: Henri Matisse's Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Background, 1926.
It’s odd now to recall a time when the word “decorative,” as applied to the painti read more »
Creepy Cruise Scares Even Aliens
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Into the woods: Tom Cruise leads the way in War of the Worlds.
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Cruise is an alien. Think about it. That would explain just about everything.
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Tri-Borough Art Fest: From Guggenheim to P.S. 1
Before Norman Rockwell, before Giorgio Armani, before Harley Davidson, Matthew Barney and his umptee read more »
Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time
In a rare collaboration between two elite art dealerships, Richard L. Feigen and Co. read more »
MoMA Curators, Take Note: Don’t Forget ‘Passion and Energy’
In a letter to The New York Times Magazine, Caroline Homard of Farmington Hills, Mich., engages in s read more »
Picasso's Whimsical Sketchbook: At 90, Genius Kept a Steady Hand
Picasso: The Berggruen Album , an exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, offers a rare opportunity to read more »
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Picasso's Whimsical Sketchbook:At 90, Genius Kept a Steady Hand
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A Shot of Classical Calm, Antidote to Picasso Fatigue
In the mid-1980's, Tom Wolfe predicted that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) would be knocked from his pede read more »
Arshile Gorky Oeuvre: Despite Hommages, Works Were Diary
No matter how often we're given an opportunity to revisit the paintings and drawings of Arshile Gork read more »
Currently Hanging
A Shot of Classical Calm,Antidote to Picasso Fatigue
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Raiding the Storage Racks: The Guggenheim's Good Stuff
What a thrill it is to visit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum right now. You heard me: thrill . read more »
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Raiding the Storage Racks:The Guggenheim's Good Stuff
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Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness
It has always been a conundrum for established opinion in the New York art world: how to come to ter read more »
Dining out with Moira Hodgson
Cozy Corner Spot Harks BackTo Soho's Salad Days
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Time to Reassess Maurice Prendergast, First Modernist
With the Vuillard retrospective still on view in Montreal and the recent Bonnard exhibition at the P read more »
The Natural Kingdom Romps Through the Morgan Library
"Nature is the model, variable and infinite, which contains all styles." This statement by Auguste R read more »
Four Seasons Clutches Curtain
Though Vivendi has already made $12 million by putting the Seagram art collection on the block, it m read more »
MoMA Extravaganza of Matisse-Picasso A Great Exhibition
Reviewing an exhibition of the Paul Guillaume Collection in Paris in July 1929, the critic Adolph Ba read more »
One More Bark from Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney has a new book out, so he was happy to receive a visitor at his West 57th Street offices read more »
After a Plague of Dead Fauna, A Disquieting Homage to Life
The sculpture of Gillian Jagger, currently the subject of a disquieting exhibition at the Phyllis Ki read more »
Sculptor Gonzáles, Welding With Picasso, Started New Genre
It may be said of the Spanish sculptor Julio González (1876-1942), whose work is currently the subj read more »
Rodin's Rebels, Former Apprentices Turned to Greeks
With the passage of time, and the radical shifts of taste and sentiment that have shattered so many read more »
Late-Cubist Davis, An Abstract Master Right to the End
Lucky is the artist who is born to his vocation. read more »
Considering Gorky, It's His Portraits That Really Matter
Has there ever before been an Arshile Gorky exhibition entirely devoted to the artist's portraits? read more »
In Art, Genes Matter: Giacometti at MOMA
Blessed are the artists who, owing to family history, innate talent and an indomitable will, are bor read more »
A Minimalist Artist With a Modernist Bent
Certainty is not an attribute that immediately springs to mind when we think of 20th-century art. read more »
Working on Côte d'Azur Was Very Best Revenge
What the French call the Côte d'Azur and everyone else callsthe French Riviera-on the southeast coa read more »
Mike Figgis' Hollywood Is The Player Times Four
From time to time, I will try to do justice to movies thathave come and gone without being adequatel read more »
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