(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

For some reason, I seem to be wallowing in representational art this summer & autumn. But representational isn’t necessarily bad – just as abstraction isn’t necessarily good. In this case, we have two story-telling artists, and although narratives can be boring, I found these two with something to say.  Read More 

Once again, I present my list of the more noteworthy coming attractions this fall. Three of them have already opened, but I’ve only been to one of those three (and as a result include a review of it at the end of this listing). The two biggest museums in town are, in their main exhibits, sitting back on their academic haunches this year, but some of the city’s smaller museums are nobly stepping into the breach (to mix my metaphors). Plus even the occasional gallery.  Read More 

Although I am not knowledgeable about architecture, I so much enjoyed the Guggenheim’s 2009 exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Henri Labrouste exhibition at MoMA earlier this year that I was looking forward to “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art over the summer and  Read More 

The press officer at the New-York Historical Society, where I'd been to admire its Reginald Marsh show (now alas closed), asked if I’d seen “Hopper Drawing” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This made me realize that this was a show I ought to see. I’d been  Read More