Art & Photographic Exhibitions
An “uplifting” diversion in New York’s Central Park
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates”
By Peter Daniels, February 22, 2005
“The Gates,” the temporary installation of saffron-colored nylon fabric panels suspended between more than 7,500 sets of vinyl poles stretched along 23 miles of footpaths in New York&rsquo...
Modigliani—an artist between worlds
By Lee Parsons, January 18, 2005
Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 23, 2004 to January 23, 2005
Pennsylvania steel works mural restored: rescuing history from the dustbin
By David Walsh, December 18, 2004
A remarkable mural of the US Steel Duquesne Works (circa 1920) by Harry M. Pettit, newly restored, is now on display at a gallery in Washington, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. The Duquesne Works, once...
The social mosaic attempted: the photographs of August Sander
By Clare Hurley, December 8, 2004
“People of the Twentieth Century”: August Sander’s Photographic Portrait of Germany, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 25—September 19, 2004
Influence and the rise of modern art
Turner Whistler Monet: Impressionist Visions, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, June 12 to September 12
By Lee Parsons, August 31, 2004
This Toronto exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) brings together the work of three of the foremost artists of the nineteenth century, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (...
Resistance is not always the whole picture: Hong Sung Dam’s Dawn woodcuts and the Gwangju uprising
By Clare Hurley, February 3, 2004
East Wind, an exhibit co-organized by the Gwangju Art Museum (South Korea) and the Queens Museum of Art (New York), October 5-November 30, 2003
More of the big lie that “socialist realism” emerged from Soviet revolutionary art
Dream factory communism: the visual culture of the Stalin era—an exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
By Marianne Arens and Sybille Fuchs, January 17, 2004
The art form officially sanctioned by the state under Stalin has long been ridiculed in the West; but now, 50 years after the death of the dictator, and in the absence of any serious attempt to tackle...
The sculpture of Edgar Degas
Degas Sculptures, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 11, 2003, to January 4, 2004
By Lee Parsons, December 19, 2003
The current exhibition of bronze sculpture at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto cast from the works of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is a welcome opportunity to study the often overl...
The texture of life in a few instances
The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003, Whitney Museum of American Art
By Clare Hurley, October 14, 2003
The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, July 3-October 12, 2003
Tom Thomson: painter and “Canadian legend”
By Lee Parsons, September 16, 2003
Tom Thomson: A Canadian Legend, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Musée du Québec, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Winnipeg Art Gallery
The art of ancient Sumer
The Art of the First Cities at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City
By Sandy English, July 30, 2003
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B. C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus; through August 17, 2003 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
German artist Käthe Kollwitz at the Art Gallery of Ontario
By David Adelaide, July 19, 2003
“I am an American who strongly disagrees with my country’s policy of War. As I write this, some of Kollwitz’s drawings are coming to life in Iraq. I am sickened by this. May the drum...
