Life In Motion Review: Egon Schiele And Francesca Woodman At Tate Liverpool
The current Life in Motion exhibition at Tate Liverpool features a dual display by two equally compelling artists. Captivating studies by Austrian...
Jon Kelly 2 August 2018
Museum Stories
Heavenly Bodies Spring to Life in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
I am not Catholic. And I am not up on the latest fashions. Yet here I was, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Fifth Avenue with...
Howard Schwartz 30 July 2018
Nazi-looted Cézanne Painting To Be Shown In Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland has put a new painting on view on Tuesday – a Cézanne from the notorious Nazi-looted art trove of Cornelius...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 July 2018
The Futility of Trying to Understand Giacometti—or Anything Else
Near the end of the Giacometti exhibit in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is a video of the artist being interviewed. Giacometti’s hair is...
Howard Schwartz 28 June 2018
Seen ‘The Shape of Time’ Exhibition? Hurry Up, Time’s Up
You hadn’t been to Vienna if you hadn’t visited the Kunsthistorisches Museum. They have an immense collection of objects and art pieces,...
Magda Michalska 26 June 2018
Grant Wood And His Wry Sense of Humor
By the time you read this, the Grant Wood exhibit in the Whitney Museum in New York City will be over. ‘American Gothic’ will be heading back to...
Howard Schwartz 14 June 2018
Playing the Museum Dice Game – Roll yourself through the museum!
Do you think of a museum as a serious place where visitors look at artworks in silence? Are you hesitant to take your kids to an art museum, afraid...
Sandra Boks 5 June 2018
Visit Eugène Delacroix Exhibition at the Louvre with Mr. Bacchus
The early 19th century is a period when France is going through historical changes on all fronts. The anger of the people roars, the streets of Paris...
Christopher Michaut 11 May 2018
An Auction for the Ages: The Art Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller
Peggy and David Rockefeller were able to dine in their dining room and gaze at Edouard Manet’s ‘La plage à marée basse’ between mouthfuls of...
Howard Schwartz 7 May 2018
The Ups and Downs of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cartagena, Colombia
The weather was hot, about 90 degrees. The sun was wet and blinding. Men on the street were selling water for a dollar a bottle. Other men were...
Howard Schwartz 30 April 2018
Selfie-feminism, the Sad Girl Theory and the Sad Girls of Instagram
A new wave of female artists started to appear on Instagram. They come from various backgrounds, were born in different decades, their styles are...
Wojtek Rozdzenski 11 April 2018
Make Me Beautiful, Madame D’Ora
When I decided to write about Dora Kallmus, more known by her pseudonym Madame d’Ora, I found out that the Leopold Museum in Vienna is going...
Magda Michalska 9 April 2018
