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(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

By Piri Halasz

Report from the Front

Art criticism, sometimes with context, occasional politics. New shows: "events;" how to support the online edition: "works."

 

NEXT, TO THE CLARK

March 19, 2016
Tags: Piero della Francesca, Pissarro, Constable, Fragonard, renoir
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
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 
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THE BARNES FOUNDATION, PART 1: THE PUBLIC RECORD

July 12, 2012
Tags: renoir, Cezanne, Matisse
Room 18, east wall, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. (c)2012 The Barnes Foundation.
“The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention” is the title of one of my favorite short stories, by Dorothy L. Sayers, but it might just as well be the title of the tumultuous history of the Barnes Foundation, which this spring opened its doors to visitors at its new home in center city Philadelphia. That history begins  Read More 
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THE BARNES FOUNDATION, PART 2: THE PERSONAL IMPRESSION

July 12, 2012
Tags: Cezanne, Matisse, renoir
View from 21st Street. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. (March 2012). (c) Tom Crane 2012.

I blush to admit that I never responded to the mystique of the old Barnes Foundation in Merion, not at least in the way its most fervent partisans did, though naturally I greatly admired the many virtues of its memorable collection. Maybe that's because I share what Greenberg called  Read More 
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Grinch-time #2

May 10, 2012
Tags: renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). La Promenade, 1875-76. Oil on canvas, 67 x 42 5/8 inches. The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Michael Bodycomb
Here is my second candidate for an overrated show. Which is not to say that a lot of it wasn't very fine. Just not all of it, and specifically not the part that everybody else elected to rave about.

The show I am talking about is “Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting,” at The Frick Collection  Read More 
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