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Art Review | 'The Origins of El Greco': Saints at a Cultural Crossroads

At monasteries on Mount Athos in northern Greece, you wake in the night to the sound of Greek Orthodox monks chanting Byzantine prayers. It’s an unforgettable sound, distant and unearthly, but also inside you, like a buzz in the blood. Collection of ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: El Greco

Art: Long-Term Return: Warhol’s Money Factory

Whenever you stand back for a panoramic look at the contemporary art world that confection of bucks, puff and street smarts you realize afresh that Andy Warhol was the daddy of it all. And that was confirmed yet again at Sotheby’s on Wednesday night, ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andy Warhol,  Roy Lichtenstein

Art Reviews | 'Victorious Ones,' 'Peaceful Conquerors': Compassionate Masters of the Universe

First, do no harm. That’s the bottom-line rule of Jainism, one of the three major homegrown religions in India. To believers, all living things, from whales to humans to flu bugs, have souls and, karmically speaking, all souls are equal. If you go ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rubin Museum of Art,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  John Guy

Art Review | '1969': The Year of Tumult

In the fall of 1969, the country was having a nervous breakdown, and I was in my last year in college. I’d spent half the summer working in the emergency room of a New England factory town hospital, the rest traveling across Canada in a ruin of a car ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Charles Manson,  Museum of Modern Art,  John Wesley,  Donald Judd,  Helen Frankenthaler

Nancy Spero; feminist artist addressed political violence; at 83

NEW YORK - Nancy Spero, an American artist and feminist whose tough, exquisite figurative art addressed the realities of political violence, died Sunday in Manhattan. She was 83 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was respiratory complications of an ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, Boston Globe,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Modern Art

Art Review | 'Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective': From Mimic to Master of Invention

PHILADELPHIA Two stories are well known about the Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky. One is that he came to a terrible end, a suicide in his mid-40s, after a hammering series of catastrophes. The other is that he took a very long time around 20 ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Arshile Gorky,  Philadelphia Museum of Art

Nancy Spero, Artist of Feminism, Is Dead at 83

Nancy Spero, an American artist and feminist whose tough, exquisite figurative art addressed the realities of political violence, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 83 and lived in Manhattan. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Modern Art

Art Review | 'Nexus New York': Art Currents Flow Two Ways in Pan-American City, U.S.A.

Some museums pull us in with familiar beauties; some send us out with new ideas. The best do both, which is why it’s so great to have the lights back on and the art back up at El Museo del Barrio on upper Fifth Avenue. Nexus New York: Latin/American ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: El Museo del Barrio,  Diego Rivera,  Alfred Stieglitz,  Stuart Davis,  Museum of Modern Art

Critic’s Notebook: White House Art: Colors From a World of Black and White

As you’d expect, questions hovered in the art world air last week after the White House released the list of paintings that the Obamas have borrowed from various Washington museums for their presidential home. SECOND ACT Alma Thomas began painting full ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  American University,  John Howard,  Jasper Johns,  Ed Ruscha

Art Review | 'Eccentric Visions': Renegade Apprentice

Little wonder people have trouble coming to grips with traditional Chinese painting. What’s to grip? Visually, this is some of the sheerest and least emphatic art ever made: ink, water, maybe a little color; a scribble, a splash. By comparison, Corot ...

From HOLLAND COTTER, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Norman Mailer

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