Virginia Wright, Prominent Collector Who Formed a Pillar of Seattle’s Art Scene, Is Dead at 91
Over the years, she and her husband donated their collection of over 200 postwar and contemporary works to the Seattle Art Museum.
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Vasari Diary: Philippe Costamagna’s ‘The Eye,’ Barbara Rose on Greenberg, and Roger Ballen
The latest column includes a personal history of connoisseurs, a repudiation of an art-historical giant, and an interview with the South Africa–based photographer.
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The Figure in a Matisse-cutout Carpet
In the spring of 1968, I took the last course ever taught by the art historian Meyer Schapiro. I was, at the time, a junior at Columbia College, and it was a thrill to be studying with someone…
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Best of Forrest Bess, Via Robert Gober & Menil
Menil Collection surveys brooding work of Forrest Bess, painter and visionary
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Top Ten ARTnews Stories: A Modernist Manifesto
In "The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art," Meyer Schapiro explained why abstraction in painting and sculpture was so revolutionary. Three decades later, he finally consented to sit for a lengthy…
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