10 Seminal 20th-Century Compositions
This list includes 10 seminal works from the 20th century classical repertoire. They represent a range of styles and methods explored during the past century. In a way, they were included because they...
View ArticlePainting as a Metaphor for Sex
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_10_29/ai_56749888/pg_26/)Neville Wakefield is the Curator of Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair.Cecily Brown is an English painter working in New York....
View ArticleConfronting Manet
‘Olympia’, 1863-65, Paris. A number of years ago I happily managed to be in Paris for two weeks. Being a student, I didn’t have much money, so instead of fancy restaurants, I spent most of my time in...
View ArticleThe Function of the Studio: A Panel Discussion Between Contemporary Artists
Last week, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London hosted a panel titled "The Function of the Studio: Four Artists in Conversation" with artists Shezad Dawood, Gautier Deblonde, Antony Gormley and...
View ArticleTop 5 19th Century Artists
Many beers at Barbara’s bar at the Brewery here in LA resulted in the following list. They are all French. They are all painters. So it goes, in descending order: 5. Seurat. He’s underrated the...
View ArticleCurator's Corner: A Journey Round My Skull
Today I'd like to recommend a quick click to one of my favorite blogs, A Journey Round My Skull. Every post is absolutely fascinating and there are so many rarities to be had here that you come away...
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Curator's Corner: Cultural Diary
This week between editing and teaching, I managed to visit a few key exhibitions and concerts featuring compelling rarities. Two of them come thanks to recommendations from Holland Cotter, of the New...
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Recommendations to Friends: Tiny Strange Museums
Museums of all kinds are wonderful, but big museums tend to be devoted to one conventional subject (like art or history-boring!), and feature well-curated, non-terrifying exhibits. This is why I prefer...
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My Cultural Diary: Athens, Greece
The last week has been a blur of airplanes, trains, boats and buses, and so my Cultural Diary is most atypical of my normal daily life. Since my four-year-old son was born, I don’t travel as much as I...
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Picks of the Month
Walton Ford, New Work at Paul Kasmin GalleryThe Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London – 3 December 1830Oh, what a travesty to miss this exhibit!! Thanks to Morbid Anatomy, I’ve been spared just such...
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Curators Corner: Review of J.W. Waterhouse Exhibition
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see their current exhibition, John William Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantement. Not only is an exhibition like this a unique...
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Oddities of the Internet: World's Tallest Statues
One of the strange aspects of the internet's ever-growing presence in our lives is the way we carve trails into the online landscape. Visiting the same sites regularly mimics the feeling of a...
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