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With its new exhibition, The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860-1900, the Legion of Honor gives San Francisco viewers a primer on a 19th-century art movement that was fascinating in many aspects. In hellish Victorian London, where in 1884 cultural critic John Ruskin talked of a polluted “plague-cloud” and a “fatal infection of the sky,” a [...]
Thursday, January 12, 2012
HUMBLE POP ARTISTS AT THE BERKELEY ART MUSEUM One of the foremost innovations of 20th-century visual culture was that art started to look humble. Seeing Kurt Schwitters’ fragile little collages, made out of various scraps and trash, at the Berkeley museum a few months ago was like an invigorating slap in the face. Schwitters worked [...]
Friday, November 18, 2011
Strangely enough, at the press preview of the “Pissarro’s People” exhibition at the Legion of Honor, every time the museum director said the painter’s last name, I kept hearing “Bizarro.” That would be an ill-fitting name for the Impressionist master, since there is nothing bizarre in his oeuvre. In fact, he made a point of [...]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Unlike the Picasso, Warhol, or Impressionism exhibitions that the de Young has presented in recent years, “Masters of Venice” is not very big–only about 50 pieces. But those pieces are extremely famous. One even wonders how the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna let them travel over the ocean, since most of them will soon be 500 [...]
Monday, November 7, 2011
Francesca Woodman, SFMOMA, November 5, 2011 – February 20, 2012 One of the strengths of the SFMOMA is its photography program. This season the museum will host an exhibition of photographs by Francesca Woodman, which will be the first major show of her work in the United States (it will later travel to the Guggenheim). [...]
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