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Addressing the Queen

By Posted 02/21/12
Justin Mortimer's painting The Queen, 1998

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Command Performance

By Posted 01/17/12
Nicholson didn’t glorify the officers he portrayed in Canadian Headquarters Staff, commissioned in 1917.

William Nicholson’s group portrait of Canadian generals during World War I is an unusual and haunting war tableau Read More

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Turning Over a New Leaf

By Posted 12/01/11
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When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles Read More

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Object Lessons

By Posted 11/08/11
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Wayne Thiebaud on Morandi, light, color, shadows, and more
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The Cubists & the Tubist

By Posted 10/25/11
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In ‘The Three Musicians,’ Léger plays off his relationship to Picasso and Braque Read More

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Ahead of the Curve

By Posted 09/13/11
The fan-shaped birchwood "radius" work Curve XXI, 1978-80, appears to hover midair.

Ellsworth Kelly’s sculpture, subject of a show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, makes the complex simple and the simple complex Read More

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I’m with the Band

By Posted 09/06/11
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Pop Goes Minimalism

By Posted 08/30/11
Piper Brett's steel sculpture Big Bow, 2009. MATT HOLLERBUSH

From gift bows to gold chains, Piper Brett’s blown-up sculptures are elegant and over the top. Read More

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The Clay’s the Thing

By Posted 08/15/11
Tord Boontje, Table Stories Dinnerware Plate, 2005, porcelain, underglaze blue. From "Blue and White: A Ceramic Journey." DENVER ART MUSEUM, GIFT OF JILL A. WILTSE AND H. KIRK BROWN III

At the Denver Art Museum, mud is ‘marvelous’. Read More

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Kiefer on Night Watch

By Posted 08/15/11
Anselm Kiefer's installation La Berceuse (for Van Gogh), 2010, was in a room devoted to Rembrandt's The Night Watch, 1642. MYRA MAY

The German artist does Rembrandt, by way of van Gogh. Read More