The mystery is in the motivation for Zuburán’s paintings of Jacob and his twelve sons.
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.
Exhibitions devoted to the work of Michelangelo, Rodin, and David Hockney are now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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.
Two worthy micro-exhibitions reviewed by Jerry Weiss
All Good Art is Political: Käthe Kollwitz and Sue Coe is the ambitious and problematic endeavor just installed at Galerie St. Etienne.
Now on view at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, exhibitions of work by Marguerite Zorach and Andrew Wyeth
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.
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).
Discovering small pleasures in the Norton Museum of Art’s permanent collection while the museum renovates and expands its facilities.