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Art Reviews Archive

March 1, 2004
Futurist Tense

A Guggenheim exhibit shows how Umberto Boccioni’s portrait of his mother turned Cubism on its head—and irked the French.

March 29, 1999
Getting Medieval

Two shows at the Met bring "permanent" collections of art from the Middle Ages (one the museum's own, the other on loan from Assisi) back to new, vivid life.

March 12, 2001
Paper Chase

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June 11, 2001
Goya's Children

Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000
Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor

March 24, 2003
Spanish Lessons

The best thing about the Met’s “Manet/Velázquez,” a look at the influence of Spain on French art, is the chance to see such a huge number of great paintings under one roof.

April 5, 2004
Golden Years

The spectacular third installment in the Met’s Byzantine series may focus on an era of decline, but you wouldn’t know it from the art.

May 31, 1999
A Healer's Art

At the Met's exhibition of an eccentric physician's hoard of paintings, more veneration of Saints Vincent (Van Gogh) and Paul (Cezanne).

January 17, 2005
His Old Kentucky Home

Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s eerie, gorgeous portraits of children walk a line between sentimental and gothic.

May 10, 2004
Boro Hell

A new mural celebrates the Brooklyn Museum’s emergence from the past with a vision of the future. It isn’t pretty (unless you’re a roach).

August 16, 2004
Matter of Life and Death

In the soot drawings and elaborate organic-looking sculptures of Lee Bontecou, glimpses of the eternal.

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