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“Color Panels for a Large Wall,” by Ellsworth Kelly, 1978
Art
March 09, 2016
Kelly’s work abstracted from visual experience only to return us to it.
December 09, 2015
It is the birth the artists paint, not the incarnation as such.
Panel 1: “During the World War there was a great migration North by Southern Negroes,” by Jacob Lawrence.
Art
August 19, 2015
The migration paintings of Jacob Lawrence
“Nessun Dorma” (2013), Rome
Art
June 24, 2015
Timothy J. Clark’s poetic realism
St. John the Evangelist (1408–15), by Donatello
Art
April 15, 2015
Donatello crosses the Atlantic
"Portrait of Edith Schiele, The Artist's Wife," 1915 (Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands)
March 20, 2015
The artist dying young is one of the founding myths of 20th century Modernism. A. E. Houseman celebrated the athlete dying young. In England Wilfred Owen became the icon of the poet giving his life for his country. August Macke and Franz Marc, lost at the front in the Great War, had been radiant hop
December 11, 2014
How to choose from the bountiful treasury of images awaiting our contemplation (and sheer delight) in this darkening season before Christmas? Do you prefer Netherlandish precision and detail? Italian tenderness and warmth? The classical proportions and palette of Poussin? The transcendent simplicity
“A View of Toledo,” by El Greco, ca. 1598-99
Art
November 25, 2014
Celebrating El Greco
“Watchtower (Hochsitz),” by Sigmar Polke, 1984
Art
July 08, 2014
“Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010" is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through Aug. 3.
“Top of the Rue de Champlain, View to the Right,” c. 1877-78
Art
May 01, 2014
Charles Marville’s photographs of a city transformed