Heidi Ellison
Teotihuacan
Mask fromTeotihuacan. © Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Photo: Martirene Alcantara The lost civilizations of the pre-Columbian Americas are an endless source of fascination and often great mystery. The wealthy … Read More
The Brukenthal Collection & The Dutch Golden Age
Detail of “The Holy Family” (1625-30) by Jacob Jordaens. Serge Wytz © Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu/ Hermannstadt, Romania It’s true, as a friend pointed out, that the name of the current exhibition at Paris’s Musée Jacquemart-André, “Brueghel, Memling, Van Eyck…: … Read More
James Ensor & Federico Fellini
James Ensor’s “Etonnement du Masque Wouse” (1889). © ADAGP, Paris 2009 Visiting the James Ensor show at the Musée d’Orsay just after seeing the new exhibition on Fellini across the river at the Jeu de Paume, I couldn’t help noticing … Read More
Soulages & Deadline
A painter whose work consists of abstract canvasses primarily covered in black makes an easy target for modern art skeptics of the “my-six-year-old-could-do-it” school, but that attitude would be very wrong in the case of Pierre Soulages, the subject of … Read More
Evento
Tadashi Kawamata’s wooden bridge and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s film installation, works presented in Bordeaux during the Evento festival. Every French city seems to be promoting itself these days by holding a big contemporary art festival. Lille had its Lille 3000 in … Read More
Evento
Tadashi Kawamata’s wooden bridge and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s film installation, works presented in Bordeaux during the Evento festival. Every French city seems to be promoting itself these days by holding a big contemporary art festival. Lille had its Lille 3000 in … Read More
Biennale de Lyon/Biennale de la Jeune Création Européenne
Sarah Sze’s “Untitled (Portable Planetarium)” at the Biennale de Lyon.Photo: Blaise Adilon It would be difficult for any Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon to live up to the wow power of the first one I attended, in 2000. The enormous … Read More
Biennale de Lyon/Biennale de la Jeune Création Européenne
Sarah Sze’s “Untitled (Portable Planetarium)” at the Biennale de Lyon.Photo: Blaise Adilon It would be difficult for any Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon to live up to the wow power of the first one I attended, in 2000. The enormous … Read More
Renoir in the 20th Century
“Les Vignes à Cagnes” (1908). © Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA Having OD’d on paintings by Renoir during a visit to the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia at the beginning of the year, I had trouble working up any … Read More
Titien, Tintoret, Véronèse…: Rivalités à Venise
Titian’s “Danaë” (1544-46). © Scala, Florence The Louvre has prepared a wonderful treat for lovers of Italian painting: a trip to 16th-century Venice, where a number of great … Favorite