New Slant on Modern Art “Three Women (Le Grand Déjeuner)” (1921), by Fernand Léger. © Adagp, Paris 2015. Photo © 2015 Digital Image, the Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence The current exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, “Les Clefs … Read More
Mod, Ab Ex, Mini and Pop “Cité” (1951), by Ellsworth Kelly. © Ellsworth Kelly © SFMOMA. Photo: Ben Blackwell A great follow-up to “Keys to a Passion” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, an original and illuminating exhibition on the art … Read More
Painter, Jokester,Player, Thinker “Le Roi et la Reine Entourés de Nus Vites” (1912). © 2014 photo The Philadelphia Museum of Art/ArtResource/Scala, Florence © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris 2014 Marcel Duchamp was not interested in painting pretty pictures, but he was … Read More
Art That Saves, Art That Kills “Les Trois Grâces” (1995-2003). © 2014 Niki Charitable Art Foundation. Photo: Philippe Cousin It seems that everyone in the world is familiar with Niki de Saint Phalle’s “Nanas,” those monumental sculptures of curvaceous goddesses … Read More
The Eccentric Eye of A Master of Color From Los Alamos Folio 1, Memphis (1965). © William Eggleston. Courtesy Wilson Centre for Photography. It is always interesting to take a look back at an artist’s first steps to understand how … Read More
Shutterbugs of Every Stripe Fill Paris Galleries “El Masnou, Catalogne, Espagne” (1955), by Carlos Cruz-Diez. Photography lovers have reason to rejoice in November, the biannual Mois de la Photo in Paris, but they will be hard put to find time … Read More
Rehabilitating a Renaissance Painter Detail of Perugino’s “Mary Magdalen” (c. 1500-02). © Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città da Firenze The work of the painter Pietro Perugino (c. 1450-1523), … Read More
A Survey of Haitian Art: Beyond the Stereotypes “Poste Ravine Pintade” (c. 1980), by Fritzner Lamour. Not surprisingly, death looms large as subject matter in the exhibition “Haiti: Two Centuries of Artistic Creation” at the Grand Palais in Paris, … Read More
Paris Through the Magnum Viewfinder “2003.” © Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos Paris bursts into life in the exhibition “Paris Magnum” at the Hôtel de Ville, a kind of brief pictorial history of the city from 1930s to the present by some … Read More
New Photography: The Light and Dark Sides “Soliloquy I,” inspired by Henry Wallis’s “The Death of Chatterton” (1856). © Sam Taylor-Johnson. Courtesy White Cube Gallery Do you ever get strong sense of déjà vu – or even intense boredom – … Read More
