Focus on Art

Focus on Art

Thomas Hart Benton's "Instruments of Power" from America Today
February 2015

Getting New Life at the Met

Greta Berman

Thomas Hart Benton mural cycle depicting America in 1931 is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.more
Egon Schiele: Portrait of the Composer Arnold Schönberg (1917)
December 2014/January 2015

The Startlingly Original Egon Schiele

Greta Berman

In his short life, Expressionist painter Egon Schiele’s work evolved from traditional to controversial and finally more acceptable.more
Norman Lewis: Twilight Sounds (detail)
November 2014

Two Marginalized Artists in Dialogue

Greta Berman

Pairing work by “outsider” Abstract Expressionists, one a woman, the other black, reveals how powerful their paintings were. more
Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril
October 2014

Toulouse-Lautrec at MoMA

Greta Berman

The lively Museum of Modern Art Toulouse-Lautrec show made me feel i had walked into fin-de-siècle Paris.more
Henri Matisse: The Parakeet and the Mermaid (1952)
September 2014

Checking Out This Fall's Art Offerings

Greta Berman

Check out Laturec and Matisse at MoMA (free for Juilliard students!), El Greco at the Frick and the...more
Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, Synthesis of Aerial Communications (Sintesi delle comunicazioni aeree)
May-August 2014

Paradoxes of Futurism Revealed at Guggenheim

Greta Berman

An exhibit on Futurism at the Guggenheim begins with great excitement and then becomes blander. more
Top of the rue Champlain
April 2014

Marville: Old and New Paris at the Met

Greta Berman

Charles Marville allows the viewer to regret the loss of old Paris while still welcoming the innovations.more
Relationship (Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, 2008)
March 2014

Women’s History Month Art

To celebrate Women’s History Month, The Journal is featuring shows by women artists at museums and galleries around...more
Henri Matisse, Blue Nude (1907)
February 2014

The Armory Show 100 Years Later

Greta Berman

The New-York Historical Society celebrates a milestone with The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution.more
Obsession (1943)
December 2013/January 2014

A Darker Side of Marc Chagall

Greta Berman

We are accustomed to seeing the joyous Chagall, but few are aware of his artistic responses to suffering. more
Ardeshir Mohassess
November 2013

Asia Society’s Iran Modern Show Provokes Questions

Greta Berman

The Asia Soceity’s Iran Modern show illustrates how Iranian artists integrated Persian miniatures, Pre-Islam imagery, imagination, ingenuity, and...more
The Parting of Lancelot and Guinevere (1874)
October 2013

The Met's Julia Margaret Cameron

Greta Berman

The Julia Margaret Cameron exhibit at the Met Museum evokes a world abundant in Romantic poetry, high drama,...more
Klimt’s famous 1902 Beethoven frieze
September 2013

Vacation Highlights From All Over Europe

Greta Berman

I’m writing about my visits to European art museums, cathedrals, and palaces this summer. more
The Pursuit of Happiness
May-August 2013

Storied W.P.A. Murals Returned to Prominence

Greta Berman

Harlem Hospital has re-restored its Works Progress Administration murals and administrators say they’ll soon be open to the...more
Child in Blue With Dog
April 2013

Discovering the Folk Art Museum

Greta Berman

The superb American Folk Art Museum’s exhibition on enigmatic 19th-century painter William Matthew Prior has garnered much praise.more
Wassily Kandinsky
March 2013

A Who’s Who of Early Abstraction at MoMA

Greta Berman

MoMA’s current show “Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925” is almost tailor-made for Juilliard performers and composers, as well as those...more
African Art Mask
February 2013

African Art and Modernism at the Met

Greta Berman

Everyone with the slightest interest in modern art knows how powerfully African art impacted Picasso, Braque, Brancusi, Modigliani,...more
December 2012/January 2013

Blindness Is Another Way of Seeing

Greta Berman

At a conference sponsored by the organization Art Beyond Sight and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the writer...more
Head of a Bodhisattva Attendant of Maitreya
November 2012

Seeing China’s Buddhist Cave Sculpture in Context

Greta Berman

Paradoxically, the current exhibition of sixth-century Chinese Buddhist cave sculpture at the N.Y.U. Institute for the Study of...more
Rinpa Irises
October 2012

Revisiting the Rinpa Aesthetic at the Met

Greta Berman

“Designing Nature: the Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art,” a quirky, ultimately triumphant show, is at the Met Museum.more
September 2012

The Jewish Museum Takes a Look at Edouard Vuillard Paintings

Greta Berman

The extraordinary exhibition “Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940” focuses on collectors and patrons and their...more
May-August 2012

Naoto Nakagawa: Art as Hope After a Disaster

Greta Berman

When New York-based painter Naoto Nakagawa heard about the earthquake and tsunami that hit his native Japan on...more
April 2012

The Dutch and the Art of Close Observation

Greta Berman

If you go to the Morgan Library’s exhilarating exhibition “Rembrandt’s World: Dutch Drawings From the Clement C. Moore...more

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