“Weeping Woman” (1907) © Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group/BONO 2011 © Adagp, Paris 2011 Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” the artist’s best-known and most reproduced image, is nearly as iconic as Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa,” to the point where it … Favorite
“Initiation, Cord” (2009), one of the inexplicable, dream-world images by Lin Shih-yung in the exhibition “HEY! Modern Art and Pop Culture. HEY! is an art magazine that specializes in a particular kind of art, which might be called the … Read More
Anne Brunet’s “Olympia Forever,” an update of the famed painting “Olympia,” brings tears to the eyes of Manet’s proud courtesan. Many art dealers have personal art collections, but, being salespeople, they often have a hard time resisting an offer … Read More
Fra Angelico’s “The Coronation of the Virgin” (1434-1435). Uffizi Gallery © 2010. Photo Scala, Florence courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali For sheer visions of loveliness in heavenly, harmonious colors, the paintings of Fra Angelico (1387-1455) reign … Read More
One of Pascal Marthine Tayou’s “poupées” from his installation at the Musée d’Aquitaine. The city of Bordeaux’s biannual citywide contemporary art festival, Evento, took a sociopolitical turn this year under the artistic direction of Italian Arte … Favorite
Cézanne’s “Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise” (c. 1873). © Philadelphia Museum of Art Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the painter recognized by the great artists of the early 20th century as “the father of us all,” is perhaps best known … Read More
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s “Totentanz der Mary Wigman” (1926-28). Wichtrach/Berne, Galerie Henze & Ketterer& Triebold Dance lovers will adore the new exhibition “Vivez la Danse” (“Dance Your Life”) at the Centre Pompidou, but even dance skeptics and the dance-indifferent will … Read More
Cultivating Art in the Country From Pascal Bernier’s “Hunting Accident” series. What’s the last thing you would expect to find deep in the heart of the French countryside on, of all places, the campus of an agricultural high school surrounded … Read More
Rodin’s “Iris Messagère des Dieux” Photo: Christian Baraja. Since it opened its stripped-down chapel as a temporary exhibition space a few years ago, the Musée Rodin has put on a series of carefully curated exhibitions that not only … Favorite
Marcel Dzama’s “Banks of the Red River.” Do isolation and frigid winters breed good art? Apparently so, judging from the just-opened “My Winnipeg” exhibition at the Maison Rouge. Living in the world’s coldest … Favorite
