“Kobo” (1999)
Ken Johnson writes: “What a transformation! The New Museum’s show of paintings by Tomma Abts is as quiet, spare and luminous as ‘Unmonumental’ - the big show of assemblages and collages that inaugurated the museum’s new building in December - was congested and noisy. Widely spaced on three white walls under a soaring ceiling [...]
The Archibald Prize has been won by one of Australia’s rising art stars, Sydney painter Del Kathryn Barton.
Her portrait, You Are What is Most Beautiful About Me, A Self Portrait with Kell and Arella, is of the artist with her son and daughter. Barton said the painting was “one of the most personal works that [...]
Gallery workers hang a painting entitled ‘The Golden Age 1530′ by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Children may know William Steig as the creator of Shrek, but their grandparents can trace the ornery green ogre’s roots through a body of children’s books, New Yorker cartoons and drawings dating back to the Depression. Neither group will be disappointed by the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of [...]
The Guggenheim Museum’s retrospective of the work of the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is nothing if not action packed, writes Roberta Smith. The galleries are so rife with the sound of explosions and the sight of suspended objects and wildlife (stuffed) that it might almost be a movie set for some new martial-arts spy thriller. [...]
The best paintings in the extraordinary Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art exude a commanding discombobulation, Roberta Smith writes. They challenge and seduce with their brusqueness of surface, inconsistencies of space or scale, emotional ambiguities and alternately frank and improbable accounts of the female form. Courbet himself was, and remains, a [...]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, and Marie Bracquemond, on view through June 1, 2008. Everyone knows the names of famous Impressionists – Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro – but it is less well known that important women painters also belonged to their circle. Berthe Morisot, a successful and [...]
