Franklin Einspruch
“Against Morality” is the cri de coeur of a cultural critic who realizes that the presentation of art and its adjacent pursuits, including much art itself, have become the subsidiaries of progressive politics.
Read MoreMuseum exhibitions take a long time to put together, and the circumstances that justify them at their inception sometimes evaporate by the time they appear.
Read MoreIt’s hard to adequately describe what a momentous exhibition this is.
Read MoreThe painter Albert Pinkham Ryder points a way towards materials, not just as a means or a substrate, but as a phenomenology, as a basis for a reflective life.
Read MoreGo feast your eyes.
Read MoreFrances Stark is making art about art about art..
Read MoreRembrandt’s casual scratches snap into recognizability with the surprise of stage magic. But there’s no trick, it’s the genuine miracle of talent.
Read MoreBenton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.
Nothing takes center stage except the canvases by Helen Frankenthaler, which invite comparisons to every other piece in “Pretty Raw” and demolish the majority of them.
Read MoreHarvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.
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