- May 5, 2003
- Belly Up
By embracing the past, contemporary Buddhist art—much in vogue—helps center us in the present.
- April 21, 2003
- Pretty Boy
A Whitney retrospective resurrects the all-but-forgotten sculptor Elie Nadelman, who ditched the polish that won him early fame in favor of a rougher kind of beauty.
- April 7, 2003
- Schad 'n' Freud
The Neue Galerie’s welcome show on the German-modernist portraitist Christian Schad doesn’t skimp on outré sex.
- March 24, 2003
- Spanish Lessons
The best thing about the Met’s “Manet/Velázquez,” a look at the influence of Spain on French art, is the chance to see such a huge number of great paintings under one roof.
- March 10, 2003
- Master of His Domain
Artist of the moment Matthew Barney takes over and transforms the Guggenheim, creating his own, unforgettable mythic world.
- February 24, 2003
- The Two Towers
Picasso and Matisse, evenly matched juggernauts of twentieth-century art, face off in Queens—and the answer to the question “Who wins?” may surprise you.
- February 17, 2003
- The Walls Have Eyes
At the Met’s retrospective of the photographs of Thomas Struth, people look at people looking at art—and the art returns their gaze.
- February 3, 2003
- Enigma Variations
In the Met's roundup of Leonardo's drawings -- from portraits to scientific studies of water -- Western culture is reflected back at us in all its grand elusiveness.
- December 23, 2002
- Quilts of Personality
Jackson who? These strikingly beautiful quilts from an isolated Alabama town just might deserve a place among the great works of twentieth-century abstract art.
- December 16, 2002
- Out of Line
MoMA's exuberant survey of contemporary drawing rescues the genre from second-class status.