DAVID HIROSHI JAGER
Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in…
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Mary Cassatt, Once Seen as Peripheral, Looks Increasingly Like a Central Figure in the Impressionist Movement
Cassatt may be rightly celebrated as the genius of female domesticity, but, as an upcoming show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art underscores, her entire career was a feminist endeavor.
Painter Elizabeth Flood’s Plein Air Landscapes Revel in the Immediacy of Perception
Her deftness of touch allows us to almost feel the strong sweep of the wind, the blinding shimmer of the sand, the cyclical retreat and encroachment of light and shadow.
Pleasing and Productive Contrasts Emerge as Contemporary Art Is Juxtaposed With Historic Architecture at Venice
Feature the witty counterpoint of old and new in Eva Juszkiewicz’s reimagining of baroque and classical portraiture, or, gracing the courtyard of the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, sculptor Shahzia Sikander’s ‘Now’.
A Handsome De Kooning Retrospective at Venice Proposes That Italy Was Central to His Later Art
The exhibit explores the profound tension between the painter’s European, deeply classical training and his love of New York’s bold, experimental freedom.
Vik Muniz Recreates American Icons With Shredded Fiat Currency, Questioning What Our Collective History Is Made Of
His witty send ups both enshrine and subvert images from our collective zeitgeist with the recycled debris of consumer culture.
Pop Art Pioneer Jim Dine’s New Show Hearkens Back to His Origins as an Innovator
Dine expresses his fascination with the tensions between abstraction, two-dimensional representation, and the presence of things.
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