Clark Art Institute
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Edvard Munch was very far from a one-hit wonder. His career was a long narrative of restless creativity.
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One sees how the keen observation and “truth to nature” that critic John Ruskin espoused was put into action by John Constable and J.M. W. Turner.
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Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
Read MoreThis is a relatively small but stunning selection of Picasso’s finest prints, a collection that reflects the artist’s range of inspiration.
Read MoreWith invention that suggests the work of Malevich and Mondrian, the composition is a play of rectangles.
Read MoreAt times I leave off my avid samplings of one entrancement after another in a great museum. Instead, I make a pilgrimage dedicated to a single work, such as John Singer Sargent’s intoxicating woman in white in “Fumée d’Ambre Gris” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “Democracy Awakening”