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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer

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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer

Feb 6, 2018, 4:04 PM

Michelangelo’s draftsmanship evinces not only unsurpassed skill, but also serious searching and visual thinking. It is a language of its own, drawing taken to the level of an independent art.

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Zurbarán's

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Francisco de Zurbarán at the Frick

Feb 1, 2018, 11:04 AM

The mystery is in the motivation for Zuburán’s paintings of Jacob and his twelve sons.

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Anxieties Made Public

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Anxieties Made Public

Dec 11, 2017, 11:52 AM

This is Edvard Munch, the first artist to present a tormented visual autobiography in full view of the public, and an artist for whom the designation “Expressionist” too narrowly circumscribes his range and impact.

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At the Met

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At the Met

Dec 5, 2017, 2:51 PM

Exhibitions devoted to the work of Michelangelo, Rodin, and David Hockney are now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection

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Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection

Nov 22, 2017, 3:40 PM

These small works are so full of complex narrative depictions, significant details, sophisticated symbols, and expressive marks that it is impossible not to wonder at their magic.

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Currently at the Frick

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Currently at the Frick

Nov 14, 2017, 2:57 PM

Two worthy micro-exhibitions reviewed by Jerry Weiss

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Social Commentary in Black and White

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Social Commentary in Black and White

Nov 6, 2017, 11:31 AM

All Good Art is Political: Käthe Kollwitz and Sue Coe is the ambitious and problematic endeavor just installed at Galerie St. Etienne.

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Andrew Wyeth’s Hundredth Birthday

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Andrew Wyeth’s Hundredth Birthday

Oct 5, 2017, 4:22 PM

Now on view at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, exhibitions of work by Marguerite Zorach and Andrew Wyeth

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Hidden Treasures

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Hidden Treasures

Sep 26, 2017, 1:55 PM

The Gilded Age of Drawing in America, now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents three dozen remarkable and rarely seen drawings by artists, both famous and lesser known.

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Urban Realism and Old Masters at Lyman Allyn

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Urban Realism and Old Masters at Lyman Allyn

Aug 18, 2017, 4:19 PM

Jerry Weiss reviews two simultaneous exhibitions at the Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, First Impressions: Master Drawings from the Lyman Allyn Collection and Urban Realism in American Art (1890 – 1940).

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