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 The Materiality of Thinking
Michael Canning at Waterhouse & Dodd
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
March 20, 2012
An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Michael Canning starts today at Waterhouse & Dodd on Cork Street in London. "Michael’s work, whether painting, drawing or sculpture, often defies simple classification," says the gallery. "Neither truly…
 Real, and Caporael
Two Abstract Masters at Ameringer McEnery Yohe
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
March 13, 2012
Two exhibitions open this Thursday at Ameringer McEnery Yohe. Both of them merit your attention and attendance. One of them features the work of Suzanne Caporael. "First and foremost, Caporael is a painter," says the gallery. "While maintaining a…
 Masters of Mercy in Washington
Kano Kazunobu Comes to America
By Franklin Einspruch
March 9, 2012
Starting tomorrow at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian, paintings by an important 19th century Japanese master appear in the United States for the first time. "In early 1854, just as American Commodore Matthew Perry's ships steamed into…
 Intimate Sketches of New York City
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
January 19, 2012
Readers of the New York Sun have a new opportunity to own a piece of the paper's history. Vernon Howe Bailey produced a series of pen and ink drawings depicting New York City and environs during the 1930s. For a time, they appeared daily in the New…
 Rembrandt's Finest Student
Degas and the Dutch Master at the Clark
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
December 30, 2011
An exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is exploring the affinities of two of the greatest painters of all time. "By examining Rembrandt’s work—and his prints in particular—Degas discovered an approach to portraiture and…
 Too Great a Nation for Small Dreams
Ronald Reagan at the National Portrait Gallery
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
December 26, 2011
"When Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980," says the National Portrait Gallery, "it was the conventional wisdom, after what was viewed as four failed presidencies, that the office had outgrown the individual and needed to be changed or perhaps…
 Diego Rivera Keeps Up the Fight
'Portable Murals' Reappear at MoMA after Eight Decades
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
December 23, 2011
The exhibition "Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art" reunites, for the first time in 80 years, five "portable murals," freestanding frescoes with bold images addressing the Mexican Revolution and Depression-era New York that Rivera…
 Will Barnet at 100
A Long Life in Art at the National Academy
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
December 6, 2011
Will Barnet is still painting. The Beverly, MA native has long divided his time between New York and New England, and by “long,” I mean the last century. It’s fitting that his retrospective, Will Barnet at 100, traveled from the Portland Museum of Art…
 Architectural ‘Apparitions’
By Special to the Sun
December 3, 2011
They say that the true love of the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was to play the violin. So the expression “violin d’Ingres” emerged to connote the passion of an artist other than his profession. For violist David Zimbalist, the violin…
 The Cubist Experiment
Picasso and Braque in Santa Barbara
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
November 29, 2011
In September the Santa Barbara Museum of Art opened what it describes as "the first to unite many of the paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque" during the two years that they worked alongside one another…
 Modern Antiquity
Past and Present Connects at the Getty Villa
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
November 22, 2011
"Modern Antiquity," which opened this month at the Getty Villa, is exploring the effect of ancient art on early modernists. “Juxtaposing 20th-century works with ancient objects, this exhibition focuses on how four eminent artists reinvented and…
 Arrested Motion
Friedel Dzubas at Loretta Howard Gallery
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
November 12, 2011
Friedel Dzubas, in your author's opinion one of the neglected greats of Abstract Expressionism, is getting the sort of exhibition that we've come to rely on Loretta Howard to provide: focused, considered, and directed at under-explored facets of…
 Visceral and Visual
Richard Serra Drawings at SFMOMA
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
November 8, 2011
"Richard Serra's large-scale steel sculptures have made him a crucial figure in contemporary art, but his work also takes another striking, lesser-known form: drawing," according to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which is exhibiting what the…
 High and Low
What is Excellence in the Arts?
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
October 28, 2011
I’d like to examine what happens when you look at an art object and perceive it to have excellence. Let’s say that an artist has made some beautiful thing. You look at it and say, Wow. You experience a pleasant feeling of joy or excitement. Your…
Coucheron Siblings Soar at Weill, Echoing a Prediction Made in These Pages
By FRED KIRSHNIT, Special to the Sun
October 27, 2011
One of the greatest joys of a music critic is looking back over a long career and remembering fondly those performers that, as young people, clearly would rise to the upper echelon of performers if indeed that was their wish. At Weill Recital Hall in…
 Refuge from Turmoil in Nature
The Art of Dissent at the Metropolitan Museum
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
October 24, 2011
"The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great Wall comprised some of the most traumatic events in Chinese history," according to the Metropolitan Museum of…
 Degas Revealed
A Major Exhibition of Degas Nudes in Boston
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
October 19, 2011
“'Degas and the Nude' will be a revelation for our visitors," says Malcolm Rogers, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "It will offer a number of surprises—for instance, we’ll reunite several of Degas’s black-and-white monotypes with the…
 Reinventing Tradition
An Exhibition of Picasso's Drawings opens at the Frick Collection
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
October 6, 2011
"Drawing was Picasso's primary medium for thinking, problem solving, invention, and personal expression," according to the Frick Collection, whose exhibition of Picasso's drawings opened on Tuesday. "It was the link that connected his work in a…
 The Master of Tenth Street
MoMA Exhibits Comprehensive De Kooning Retrospective
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
September 29, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art has mounted a retrospective of the works of Willem de Kooning that has had the art world in a state of anticipation for several months. According to John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus at MoMA, "The importance of Willem de…
 The Indispensible Fairfield Porter
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
August 12, 2011
Fairfield Porter’s elegant paintings were the subject of a 1983 retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that at once permanently elevated his reputation and ensconced him into a period of modernist figuration that curators have been…
 Sweethearts, Smokers, and Merrymakers
Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
July 29, 2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has mounted an exhibition around eleven signed works of Frans Hals, considered by many to be the greatest master of Dutch art after Rembrandt. "Several of the Museum's paintings by Hals are famous, especially the early…
 Lucian Freud, 1922-2011
By Franklin Einspruch
July 22, 2011
Lucian Freud has died. Not to minimize the sadness this must cause his survivors, his passing has hit a segment of the art world quite hard. "I always wished I could paint like him," says the upstate New York painter Tracy Helgeson, summing up the…
 The Self-Taught Outsider Artist
Claudio Bravo, 1936-2011
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
June 15, 2011
Several years ago, in Miami, I had lunch with a fellow artist and a local museum curator. The curator asked us to suggest exhibitions, perhaps something a little off the beaten path for the museum. "Claudio Bravo," I said. In unison they turned to me…
 Unearthly Proportions
Torben Giehler at Leo Koenig
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
May 16, 2011
"Torben Giehler is known for his geometric abstractions, influenced by futuristic universes, and finished with mathematical precision," according to Leo Koenig, which is showing his fifth solo exhibition. "In a departure from the vibrant color palette…
 A Gold-Feathered Bird Sings in the Palm
Jennifer Riley at Allegra LaViola
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH
March 30, 2011
Starting from automatist drawings in pastel, Jennifer Riley works up crisp arrangements of colored lines, cannily manipulated so that they appear to enclose a looping white stripe. This stripe delimits shapes filled in with a joyful selection of hues…
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