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Bob Dylan as a visual artist
Long before Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year, pundits used to talk about “Dylan versus Keats”, as if you had to choose, and as if Dylan’s poetic transformations of folk song are really so different from what John Keats does in his eerie ballad La […]
Hoarders or collectors?
The US is a nation of compulsive collectors –at least if responses to an exhibition at New York City’s New Museum are anything to go by. The keeper is a collection of collections, a survey of the collecting passion in art and beyond that finds room for everything from a […]
Françoise Gilot: The Woman Who Says No
Recently, on 10 June in The Guardian, the journalist Emma Brockes present an interview with Françoise Gilot, à propos of Malte Herwig’s book: The Woman Who Says No: Françoise Gilot on Her Life With and Without Picasso. In her opinion, Françoise Gilot takes a stern line with interviewers, assuming they […]
Mary Cassatt Prints and the collector Samuel Putnam Avery
On 2013, up in a hallway off the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library was a small exhibition of prints from one of Impressionism’s iconic artists. Created between 1878 and 1898 by Mary Cassatt, the quiet depictions of women in repose with family pets or viewing […]
The better exhibitions in the USA this spring
This spring comes very, very bussy with exhibitions. It comes so loaded that, for the first time, we are going to make diverse monographic of the different exhibitions for geographical areas. We will begin for the best exhibitions of art of this spring in the United States of America, and in […]
The 10 best exhibitions in the USA this winter
First of all, Merry Christmas ans a Happy 2014, full of art and artistic creation. And secondly, the list of 10 best art’s exhibitions in the USA this winter 2013-2014. To star a year 2014 full of art! And the list is… -“The period of Picasso and Matisse: moderns […]
The 7 best exhibitions now in NY
For New-Yorkers or for people traveling to Big Apple, this is my list of the 7 best exhibitions now open in New York: -“Pastels of 18th Century”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02.08-29.12.2013 -“The Modern American: from Hopper to O’Keffe”, MoMA, New York, 17.08.2013-26.01.2014 -“Julia Margaret Cameron”, The […]
Old faces in new places
When a monument wakes up, you notice. It’s been more than 40 years since the Metropolitan Museum of Art rethought what many considered its ‘raison d’être’, its galleries of European paintings. The last reinstallation was in 1972 and encompassed a chronological span from Giotto to Picasso. Now become a change. […]
The social practice of art in the USA (1)
In Detroit a contemporary-art museum is completing a monument to an influential artist that will not feature his work but will instead provide food, haircuts, education programs and other social services to the general public. In New York an art organization that commissions public installations has been dispatching a journalist […]
New York, cultural capital of the world? A real debate
Is New York still the cultural capital of America, let alone the world? To the creative strivers who still flock here, the answer may be self-evident. But when the question was posed point-blank to four cultural critics from New York, they struggled to muster resoundingly jingoistic responses. “No,” said Jerry […]