Clyfford Still’s Figures Run Deep
New scholarship on the artist’s early work reveals an unexpected ancestry to his trademark abstractions
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Author Archives: Patricia Failing
The Polynesian Connection?
Polynesian objects were given equal status with Gauguin’s work in a groundbreaking and subversive exhibition Read More
American Art, Alice Walton’s Way
The Walmart heiress’s controversial museum opens with an inclusive and even quirky selection of American art that reveals an increasing focus on the present Read More
Seeing Still for the First Time
The new museum dedicated to Clyfford Still in Denver presents an unprecedented sweep of his work—even as its staff continues to make more discoveries Read More
Unraveling the Mysteries of Degas’s Sculpture
An exhaustive catalogue from the National Gallery of Art draws on both art history and scientific analysis to resolve questions about how Degas made sculpture and what happened to it after his death. Read More
The Collector Who Redefined Degas
Degas in the Norton Simon Museum
Edited by Sara Campbell;
Essays by Daphne Barbour,
Richard Kendall, and Shelley Sturman
Yale University Press, 576 pages, $95 Read More
The Hidden Sargent
A recent show asked new questions about John Singer Sargent: Was he homosexual? Did his sense of "otherness" make him sympathetic to his Jewish clients? Read More
