How Georgia O’Keeffe Changed American Art
Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community…
Review of Lighthouse at Two Lights by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper is the quintessential American Painter. A Hopper painting is recognizable immediately from it’s signature style and character. While many painters of Hopper’s era were blazing paths into Abstract…
Review: Henri Matisse ‘In Search of True Painting’ at the Metropolitan
There is an incredible exhibition going on until March 17 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "Henri Matisse: In Search of True Painting" is a true…
Was Jackson Pollock the Greatest Painter of the 20th Century?
Jackson Pollock drank. He drank as a gut-punched boxer gasps for breath, as a starving dog gobbles food, compulsively, in fear and trembling. I use the past tense not because…
Review: Ugolino and His Sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
The story of Pisan traitor Ugolino della Gherardesca, imprisoned with his sons and condemned to starvation, is told in Dante’s Inferno (canto 33). Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux shows the anguished father resisting…
Review of Crucifixion Corpus Hypercubus by Salvador Dali
Crucifixion Corpus Hypercubus by Salvador Dali is one of the most beautiful works of the modern era. The painting is currently displayed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New…
Review: Current Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
If you haven't been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art lately, now is the time to go. There are some beautiful exhibitions going on right now, but you need to…
Top 4 New York City Art Exhibitions, Winter 2011-2012
The Art of Reuse in Long Island City When: December 1 - February 29, 2011; Opening reception on December 1 from 6 – 9pm with a panel discussion at 7pm.…
The Art of Burning Man (But Is It Art?)
This week, hundreds of artists from all over the world will begin assembling one of the largest and most dazzling group art shows in the United States, or anywhere. Approximately…
Review of Edward Hopper’s Approaching a City 1946
Call it a ragged fragment torn off from that unreal city once evoked by T S Eliot. This sad, claustrophobic urban scene by Edward Hopper, with its flat, rearing tenement…
