- November 15, 1999
- Shooting the Breeze
In the casually snapped photographs of Daido Moriyama, the boundaries between art and life, like the images themselves, can be blurry.
- November 8, 1999
- Seeing Is Believing:
700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration The Public Library uncovers anatomy of a different sort.
- November 8, 1999
- Social X-Rays
The Guggenheim reveals Francisco Clemente in all his voluptuary, self-involved glory.
- November 1, 1999
- West World
In Carleton Watkins's exquisite photographs of the developing American West, everything -- natural and manmade -- seems to have a purpose.
- October 18, 1999
- Shuffling the Deck
For its millennial show on the human figure, MoMA rearranges some familiar works in its permanent collection -- with eye-opening results.
- October 11, 1999
- High and Low
After more than a century, Ingres still feels mysterious and modern.
- October 4, 1999
- History Lessens
Great works and surprising moments aside, part two of the Whitney's giant survey of twentieth-century American art feels like a freshman civ course.
- September 27, 1999
- The Photographs of Adam Fuss
- September 27, 1999
- Giving Up the Ghost
The Met's huge "Egyptian Art" show manages to dazzle without mummies; whispers of loss in the photographs of Adam Fuss.
- July 26, 1999
- Christmas in July
This summer's bag of goodies includes the Brooklyn Museum's refreshing "Impressionists in Winter" and Surrealists at the uptown Guggenheim.