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Art Reviews Archive

March 26, 2001
Ahead of the Curves

Critics scoffed at Morris Lapidus's Fontainebleau and Summit hotels, but actual people loved their swoops and angles.

December 24, 2001
Mass Appeal

Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art From the British Museum
Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island

May 5, 2003
Belly Up

By embracing the past, contemporary Buddhist art—much in vogue—helps center us in the present.

February 22, 1999
War Stories

A Guggenheim exhibit of his works from the World War II era amounts to a case for Picasso as the quintessential twentieth-century artist.

February 2, 2004
Skin Games

An International Center of Photography look at the evolution of racial attitudes makes one wonder, How far have we really come?

July 16, 2001
Not Just Desserts

Wayne Thiebaud
At the Whitney Museum of American Art; through 9/23.

February 28, 2000
Tomb It May Concern

Because the ancients painted on wood, some of their most glorious art is dust; all the more reason to treasure the "mummy portraits" at the Met.

July 14, 2003
Heaviness of Being

At MoMA QNS, a modernist painter who distinguished himself by bearing the weight of the world—and a delicious Pop contrast.

March 8, 1999
"Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz"
April 4, 2005
Robert Gober

Robert Gober's first New York gallery show in eleven years is a heavily mannered, personal, and at times puzzling attempt to process a global event.

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