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Items by By KEN JOHNSON
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Art Review | Philip Pearlstein: It Is What It Is: Portraits of the Human Figure
Posted: January 7th, 2009, 4:59am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
The painter Philip Pearlstein’s seven-decade career is the focus of a small, surprisingly varied exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum.
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Art Review | Franz West: Sculpture That Asks You to Set a Spell
Posted: December 19th, 2008, 5:30am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
The core of Franz West’s oeuvre, on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art, includes eccentrically shaped, modestly scaled abstract sculptures with crusty surfaces.
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George Brecht, 82, Fluxus Conceptual Artist, Is Dead
Posted: December 15th, 2008, 9:14am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
Mr. Brecht was a core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful Conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s.
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Art Review | Jan Lievens: A Forgotten Baroque Painter, Shown Free of Rembrandt’s Shadow
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
Jan Lievens, the subject of an interesting exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, is not a household name now, but in his time he was famous for his portraits and his religious and history paintings.
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Art Review | Mary Heilmann: Unabashedly Joyful Paintings That Look Fun and Easy, but Don’t Be Fooled
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:47am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
There’s a charming sloppiness about Mary Heilmann’s paintings, which are on display in an exhilarating retrospective at the New Museum.
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Art Review | Andrea Riccio: Pint-Size Treasures Cast for Private Delectation
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 5:16am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
The beauty of Andrea Riccio’s Italian Renaissance sculptures, which are on display at the Frick Collection, is their nearly supernatural physical and psychological vitality.
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Art Review: Sending a Message by Shining a Light on What’s Not Seen
Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:45am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
“Provocative Visions: Race and Identity” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings to light an intriguing dichotomy between the visual and the verbal.
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Art Review: The Mythic Imagination of Beckmann in Exile
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 2:54am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
A show at the Neue Galerie highlights what is distinct about Max Beckmann’s art and suggests what made him so much better than his contemporaries.
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Art Review: Where the Devils Are in the Details
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 2:51am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
An enthralling exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art features 106 prints by Albrecht Dürer, the greatest printmaker — rivaled only by Rembrandt — the Western world has ever seen.
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Art Review: Will the Revolution Be Museumized? Will There Be a Revolution?
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
“That Was Then ... This Is Now” is an ambitious if disappointing effort to extend the activist spirit of the Vietnam War protest days into the Iraq war era.
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Art Review | ‘After Nature’: Sometimes the Darkest Visions Boast the Blackest Humor
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:11am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
“After Nature,” the big new show at the New Museum, is a strange, lugubrious, wildly uneven dream of an exhibition.
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Art Review: From Britain, a Trove of Glittering Prizes
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
Not every exhibition has to be more than the sum of its parts, especially when the parts are as gratifying as those making up “Medieval and Renaissance Treasures From the Victoria and Albert Museum” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Art Review | Philip Guston: Primal Instincts Hooked to an Art Against Artifice
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
The Morgan Library & Museum offers a spellbinding survey of Philip Guston’s drawings.