Heidi Ellison
Beauté, Morale et Volupté dans l’Angleterre d’Oscar Wilde
A Feat of Aestheticism Frederic Leighton’s “Pavonia” (1858-59). © Christie’s Images The exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay with the ungainly title “Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde” is rather ungainly itself. Exhaustive Favorite
Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso: The Adventure of the Steins
Paul Cézanne’s “La Femme de l’artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l’Eventail)” (1878-88) © J.-P. Kuhn, ISEA Zurich. Picasso studied this painting at the Stein’s and noticed that one of the eyes was all black, a trick he borrowed … Read More
Expressionismus & Expressionismi: Berlin-Munich 1905-1920
Two Expessions of German Expressionism “Landscape with White Wall” (1910) by Gabriele Münter. © Adagp, Paris 2011 The exhibition “Expressionismus & Expressionismi: Berlin-Munich 1905-1920, Der Blaue Reiter vs Brücke” at the Pinacothèque de Paris, like many of the Favorite
La Triennale: Intense Proximity
Three Times A Charm Annette Messager’s “Motion/Emotion” (2012) at La Triennale. One week after the reopening of the immense spaces of Paris’s cutting-edge contemporary art museum, the Palais de Tokyo, with the show “(Entre)Ouverture,” consisting Favorite
Beauté Animale: De Dürer à Jeff Koons
A Feast of Beasts in All-Animal Exhibition Théodore Géricault’s “Head of a Lioness (c. 1819). © Service Presse, Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais/Christian Jean If you love animals (or at least pictures of them) and you love art, it will … Read More
The Hermitage: The Birth of the Imperial Museum & The Birth of the Museum: The Esterhazys
Detail of Domenico Fetti’s “Portrait of an Actor” (1620-23). © Hermitage Museum. Photo: Vladimir Terebenin, Leonard Kheifets, Yuri Molodkovets The Pinacothèque de Paris, flush with the success of crowd-magnet exhibitions like the continuing “Gold of the Incas: Origins and Mysteries,” … Read More
Haute Culture: General Idea
Detail of “XXX (Bleu)” (1984). Courtesy of the estate of General Idea. Conceptual art requires a great deal of patience. I always wonder why I should stand around in a museum looking at murky photos of some performance … Favorite
Tous Cannibales
Jérôme Zonder’s “Macrophage 0” (2006). Collection of Antoine de Galbert. Conceptual art requires a great deal of patience. I always wonder why I should stand around in a museum looking at murky photos of some performance … Favorite
Jean-Michel Othoniel & François Morellet
“The Boat of Tears” (2004). © Jean-Michel Othoniel. Courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, Paris Anyone who has seen Jean-Michel Othoniel’s delightful Paris Métro entrance on the Place Colette, all playful round shapes made of colored glass balls and … Favorite
Five Exhibitions
Miró’s “Jeune Fille S’évadant” (1968). © Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011. Photo: Claude Germain Joan Miró (1893-1983), best known for his colorful, whimsical paintings, was also a prolific sculptor, to put it mildly: between the ages of 50 and … Favorite