(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

There’s no doubt that the New York Times devotes generous attention to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But this can lead to some very bum steers. Not only was I dismayed by the paper’s recent article on Max Hollein, the museum’s new director, but its review of the museum’s highly sophisticated and thoroughly delightful exhibition of “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings” actually discouraged me from attending it until far too late in its run. Hence I can only belatedly encourage my readers to beat feet to this show before it closes on May 13 (or see it at the National Gallery in London, where it will appear from June 11 to October 7).  Read More 

I’ve long heard how admirable is the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Its many admirers rave about the impressionists in its permanent collection, but I have also heard much praise for those special exhibitions held in summer.  Read More 

On the way back from my visit to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, I stopped at Princeton NJ to view “John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum” at the Princeton University Art Museum (through June 10; now at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, in Nashville, through September 30). I’d been told about this show by Cara London, the  Read More