Modigliani was a noisy drunkard, a passionate womanizer, a hashish eater, a lousy singer, a boisterous poet. He died tragically young, aged 35, an impoverished and unrecognized artist. Such is the legend. Kenneth Wayne, the curator of Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery and author of the accompanying catalogue, seeks […]
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Degas in 3D
There’s something bewitching about the new exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery. The Degas bronzes, which form the core of the show, are dazzlingly seductive in their beauty. But what lies beneath those gleaming surfaces? The story begins at the end, when Degas died in 1917 after years of failing health and virtual blindness. […]
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Alchemy with shadows
I should confess that I have long been one of Adam Fuss’s biggest fans. So I came to this show with high expectations. I was not disappointed. Scott Laird, the gallery director, and Deborah Ronnen, a prominent local art dealer, have taken a side room at the Visual Studies Workshop and transformed it into […]
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21st-century sublime
American Sublime, a recent exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, surveyed the paintings of 19th-century landscape masters Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, and others. The show explored the traditional view of the sublime landscape in all its transcendent glory. That was then; this is now. Scott Laird, gallery director […]
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21st-century sublime
American Sublime, a recent exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, surveyed the paintings of 19th-century landscape masters Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, and others. The show explored the traditional view of the sublime landscape in all its transcendent glory. That was then; this is now. Scott Laird, gallery director […]
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Timeless impressions
Talent is never enough, at least not in the art world. Of course talent’s important, but timing is everything. And if an artist wanted to be noticed, the early 20th century was no time to be doing Rembrandt. Portrait of Life: The Etchings of Arthur William Heintzelman, at the Memorial Art Gallery, showcases the […]
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Questioning the Native American image
Walk through The
Master Prints of Edward S. Curtis at George Eastman House and you will find
beautiful prints with compelling subjects. But beware, you’re not supposed to
like this work too much.
