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Art Review | "The Triumph of Marriage": Not in the Name of Love: Allegorical Imagery for Newlyweds
6 Jan 2009
“The Triumph of Marriage,” a beautiful, compact show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, displays 15 panels from Renaissance marriage chests.
Last Chance | Corin Hewitt: The Art of Cooking, and Vice Versa
5 Jan 2009
The ingredients of “Seed Stage,” an installation by Corin Hewitt at the Whitney Museum, include performance, photography, sculpture and cooking.
Last Chance: Wide World of Abstract Expressionism
4 Jan 2009
“Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, 1945-1965” at the Robert Miller Gallery mixes together unknown gems, golden oldies and undistinguished work.
Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, Designer, Is Dead at 92
4 Jan 2009
Mr. Lundquist, an architect and industrial designer, led the team that created the United Nations logo.
Design Loves a Depression
3 Jan 2009
Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design, but a little austerity could give designers a new sense of relevance.
Art: Celebrating a Decade of Nurturing Artists on the Verge
3 Jan 2009
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum checks in with veterans of a career-boosting visual arts program.
Sir Michael Levey, 81, Art Historian, Is Dead
2 Jan 2009
The prolific and wide-ranging art historian presided over the expansion of the National Gallery in London as its director.
Arts, Briefly: Valuable Artworks Stolen in Berlin
2 Jan 2009
An etching by Picasso and prints by Matisse and Braque were among 30 works stolen from a Berlin gallery during the New Year’s holiday.
Arts, Briefly: Museum Director Is Briton of the Year
2 Jan 2009
Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, was named Briton of the Year by The Times of London.
Art: Photographs Worth a Double Take
2 Jan 2009
A close look a prosaic photograph by Friedhelm Denkeler, on display in the show “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography” at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Dusting Off a Serene Jewel Box
2 Jan 2009
Chinese and American conservators are restoring a mothballed Qing Dynasty retreat in the Forbidden City.
Abroad: Rebuilding a Palace May Become a Grand Blunder
2 Jan 2009
The rebuilding of the Hohenzollern Stadtschloss, a cultural misadventure from the start, captures Berlin in a nutshell as a city forever missing the point of itself.
Art in Review
2 Jan 2009
Reviews of gallery shows by Farida Batool, Adeela Suleman and Tazeen Qayyum and others.
Museum and Gallery Listings
2 Jan 2009
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Antiques: Nautical Pack Rat and Sea Dog in Chief
2 Jan 2009
More than 75 examples from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s collection, including 30 ship models, can be seen in “Treasures of a President: FDR and the Sea.”
Art Review | 'Raqib Shaw at the Met': Starting From Holbein, Then Taking Flight
2 Jan 2009
Once you get past its resplendent multiculturalism, Raqib Shaw’s art also reads as a series of homages to the artists he studied on his frequent trips to the National Gallery.
Inside Art: One Art Fair Is Canceled, but Others Vow to Proceed
2 Jan 2009
When it was quietly announced on Dec. 17 that this spring’s International Asian Art Fair would be canceled, many began to wonder about the fate of other art fairs.
Art Review: Widely Known for Obscurity
2 Jan 2009
Alanna Heiss’s last curatorial act as the director of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center is a survey of the work of the elusive Italian artist Gino De Dominicis.
Art Review | 'Art’s Choice + Muniz = Rebus': Snaking a Daisy Chain Through MoMA
1 Jan 2009
“Art’s Choice + Muniz = Rebus” is a marvelous teaching tool that lives up to its title with unusual extravagance if you give it enough time and attention.
Last Chance: In Photography, What Puzzles the Eye May Please the Mind
1 Jan 2009
The confounding photograph is the subject of an absorbing and thought-provoking exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Attention Passengers! To Your Right, This Trip Is About to Become Trippy
31 Dec 2008
After two decades of neglect, Masstransiscope — an unusual piece of art that is part painting, part movie, part conceptual experiment — is once again playing to audiences on Manhattan-bound Q and B trains.
The Italian Dreams of an English Master
31 Dec 2008
The lifelong impact of the Italian experience on J. M. W. Turner is the subject of “Turner and Italy.”
Willoughby Sharp, 72, Versatile Avant-Gardist, Is Dead
31 Dec 2008
In the 1960s and afterward, Mr. Sharp was on the cutting edge of the American avant-garde as a performer, writer, curator, video artist and much else.
Talking Heads Caught in Moments of Silence
31 Dec 2008
In “The Silent Echo Chamber” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the actor Harry Shearer displays video of celebrities and politicians in the minutes before appearing live on television.
Art: Full Constant Light
30 Dec 2008
New York provides its artists with all manner of illumination from which to draw their visions.
Art: Whose Rules Are These, Anyway?
29 Dec 2008
The recent struggles of two prominent museums have provoked a thorny question: Is it so wrong for such institutions to sell art from their collections to raise badly needed funds?
Abroad: From Berlin’s Hole of Forgottenness, a Spell of Songs
29 Dec 2008
During the 1970s Bruno S. starred in two remarkable Werner Herzog films. Then he dropped down the memory chute.
Robert Graham, a Sculptor of Monuments in Bronze, Dies at 70
29 Dec 2008
Mr. Graham’s massive bronze works are seen on civic monuments across the United States, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington and the Duke Ellington Memorial in New York.
National Gallery of Canada Looks Beyond Controversy and Court
28 Dec 2008
Canada’s wealthiest art institution is immersed in a controversy that has more in common with television comedies like “The Office” than debates about expenditures on paintings.
Critic’s Notebook: The Polaroid: Imperfect, Yet Magical
28 Dec 2008
Mourning the death of Polaroid instant film and its accidental masterpieces.
Film: Another Camera on the Set
26 Dec 2008
Mary Ellen Mark reflects upon her 40 years photographing film sets behind the scenes.
Art Review: From an American Master, Impressions of the South Fork
26 Dec 2008
At the Long Island Museum, a retrospective of Childe Hassam’s etchings and paintings over the decades.
Critic on Site
26 Dec 2008
Articles and essays by the grande dame of architecture appraisal.
Art Review | 'The Unknown Blakelock': An Artist’s Artist: Moonlight Became Him, and Visionary Landcapes, Too
25 Dec 2008
A self-taught artist who became a respected Academician, the American landscape painter Ralph Albert Blakelock moved between the margins and the center of the art world.
Art Review: Showman Who Dabbled in Many Modernisms
25 Dec 2008
David Burliuk, the subject of a curiously eclectic career survey at the Ukrainian Museum, was not a great painter, but he had an extraordinarily interesting life.
Art: Sitting Back and Waiting
25 Dec 2008
The cooling market has curbed the once-endless appetites of buyers.
Will Elder | b. 1921: His Mad World
24 Dec 2008
He had a love for juvenility that lasted a lifetime.
$30 Million Rescue for Los Angeles Museum
24 Dec 2008
The Museum of Contemporary Art said Tuesday it had negotiated a $30 million bailout with Eli Broad, the city’s leading cultural patron.
Arts, Briefly: Chanel Pavilion Tour Is Canceled
23 Dec 2008
The world tour of the Chanel Pavilion, above, a mobile art exhibition, has been canceled as Chanel reassesses its business strategies in the troubled economic climate.
Two Artists United by Devotion to Women
23 Dec 2008
For the first time, Richard Prince’s work will appear alongside Wallace Berman’s in a show called “She” at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.
Pictures That Were Worth a Thousand Calling Cards
22 Dec 2008
A photography exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore offers a glimpse of a time when globalization was emerging and new diplomatic ties were being formed.
Branded a Pariah, the National Academy Is Struggling to Survive
22 Dec 2008
The troubled 183-year-old museum’s decision to sell two Hudson River School paintings in order to pay bills has prompted a censure by the Association of Art Museum Directors.
Art: Out With the Fat, in With the Hungry
22 Dec 2008
Here are some notable events from 2008, a year that may go into the history books as the first catastrophic fall, but also the first vital correction, for art in the new century.
Arts, Briefly: MoMA Is Given a Grant for P.S. 1 Records
21 Dec 2008
The Museum of Modern Art has received a grant that will allow the museum to organize and process the records of its affiliated P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.
Arts, Briefly: Warehouse in Brooklyn Is Formally Protected
21 Dec 2008
The old Austin, Nichols & Company Warehouse in Williamsburg is now formally protected thanks to the donation of a historic-preservation easement.
François-Xavier Lalanne, Surrealistic Sculptor, Dies at 81
21 Dec 2008
Mr. Lalanne’s menagerie of surrealistic animal sculptures included a cast-iron baboon, giant turtledoves that doubled as armchairs and a herd of topiary dinosaurs.
Exhibitions: In Desperate Times, the Rise to Take the Reins and Take On Fear Itself
20 Dec 2008
As the teetering economy and Barack Obama’s election spur plenty of allusions to F.D.R., two exhibitions revisit the early days of the Roosevelt administration.
Art: Turning On, Tuning In and Painting the Results
20 Dec 2008
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Chelsea, a curious combination of art gallery, New Age temple and Coney Island sideshow, will close at the end of the month.
Architecture: It Was Fun Till the Money Ran Out
19 Dec 2008
One of the most delirious eras in modern architectural history has come to an end. But who would have known that the end would be met in some corners with a guilty sense of relief?
Museum Growth Meets Hard Times
19 Dec 2008
As expansions planned in boom years are completed, budgets tighten.
After a Capitalist W.P.A., What Next?
19 Dec 2008
Once the nasty money and degrading hoopla has faded, the art world will become smaller and leaner, and the real artists, dealers and collectors will emerge.
Art Review: From East to West
19 Dec 2008
The Heckscher Museum of Art celebrates the American landscape with an exhibition highlighting a significant aspect of its own collection.
Globespotters: A Falling Pound and Must-See Art
16 Dec 2008
Not only is London becoming an affordable destination for American travelers, but the city is also home to three exciting art exhibits.
