- September 27, 1999
- Giving Up the Ghost
The Met's huge "Egyptian Art" show manages to dazzle without mummies; whispers of loss in the photographs of Adam Fuss.
- July 26, 1999
- Christmas in July
This summer's bag of goodies includes the Brooklyn Museum's refreshing "Impressionists in Winter" and Surrealists at the uptown Guggenheim.
- July 19, 1999
- Photo Opportunism
A provocative Museum of Modern Art show examines how, for better or worse, photography changed the face of fame.
- June 21, 1999
- Spice Girls
In their Chelsea gallery shows, Tracey Moffatt and Cindy Sherman bring new life to an old subject, as each creates a theater of the perverse.
- June 7, 1999
- Dream Weaver
The overripe imagination of Gustave Moreau, who turned his back on the prevailing tastes of nineteenth-century Paris -- and on reality itself.
- 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).
- May 31, 1999
- "Exploring Late Turner"
- May 3, 1999
- The March of Time
An exuberant show at the Whitney captures Henry Luce's notion of the American Century -- but has precious little to say about art.
- April 26, 1999
- Greeks Bearing Gifts
The Met finally gives the best collection of ancient Greek art in the Western Hemisphere -- that is, its own -- the setting it deserves.
- April 12, 1999
- Brave New Welt
Amid the cultural wreckage of postwar Germany, all ties to tradition severed, Sigmar Polke created visionary art that didn't look like "art."

Email
Print


