Sanford Schwartz is the author of Christen Købke and William Nicholson. (December 2011)
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The Cauldrons of de Kooning
December 8, 2011
de Kooning: A Retrospective
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, September 18, 2011–January 9, 2012
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Quicksilver Frans Hals
October 13, 2011
Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, July 26–October 10, 2011
Frans Hals: Style and Substance
by Walter Liedtke
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Oddly Brilliant Beginnings
September 29, 2011
Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, June 30–October 16, 2011, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, January 20–May 13, 2012
Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939
an exhibition at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, February 26–May 15, 2011, the Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich, June 2–July 17, 2011, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 25, 2011–March 11, 2012, and the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge,
Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors from the Julia Feininger Estate an exhibition at Moeller Fine Art, New York City, June 27–October 15, 2011
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The Drama of the World at Night
August 18, 2011
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., March 11–September 5, 2011; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 8–December 31, 2011; and the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, February 18–
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Looking into the Beyond
June 9, 2011
Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City,
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‘Deft, Ingenious, Creepy’
April 28, 2011
George Condo: Mental States
an exhibition at the New Museum, New York City, January 26–May 8, 2011; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, June 25–September 25, 2011; the Hayward Gallery, London, October 18, 2011–January 15, 2012;
The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo
with an essay by Ralph Rugoff
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‘A Tremendous Painter’
November 11, 2010
German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt
an exhibition at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Fondation Corboud, Cologne, April 30–August 1, 2010, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 12–December 5, 2010
Lovis Corinth: A Feast of Painting
edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Stephan Koja
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Bitter Truths
August 19, 2010
Otto Dix
an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, March 11–August 30, 2010, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September 24, 2010–January 2, 2011
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The Light on the Castle
July 15, 2010
Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light
an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, March 17–June 13, 2010; and at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, July 4–October 3, 2010
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The Artist Behind the Blur
May 13, 2010
Miroslav Tichý an exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York City, January 29–May 9, 2010
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Taking the Pulse
April 29, 2010
2010: The Whitney Biennial
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, February 25–May 30, 2010.
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection
an exhibition at the New Museum, New York City, March 3–June 6, 2010.
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Gray Magic
February 11, 2010
Luc Tuymans
an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, September 17, 2009–January 3, 2010; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 6–May 2, 2010; the Dallas Museum of Art, June 6–September 5, 2010; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Oct
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Corners of the American Scene
January 14, 2010
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 28–May 23, 2010
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The Most Imposing Cantaloupe
November 5, 2009
Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 17–August 23, 2009; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 23, 2009–January 3, 2010; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 31–May 9, 2010
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Mysteries of Ensor
September 24, 2009
James Ensor
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 28–September 21, 2009, and at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, October 20, 2009–February 4, 2010
Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor
edited by Catherine de Zegher
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An Eye on the Tremors
March 12, 2009
Let’s See: Writings on Art from The New Yorker
by Peter Schjeldahl
The 7 Days Art Columns, 1988–1990
by Peter Schjeldahl
Columns and Catalogues
by Peter Schjeldahl
The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990
edited by Malin Wilson, with an introduction by Robert Storr
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American Parable
January 15, 2009
Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808–1869
an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 27– December 28, 2008; the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, February 8–April 19, 2009; the American Folk Art Museum, New York City, September 29, 2009–March 7, 2010; and the Indiana Univers
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Daring and Disturbing
October 23, 2008
Louise Bourgeois
an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, June 27–September 28, 2008;the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 26, 2008– January 25, 2009;and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.,February 26–May 17
Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997
by Louise Bourgeois, edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour
edited by Gerald Matt and Peter Weiermair
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Questions About Kafka
August 14, 2008
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Enchanted & Ominous
July 17, 2008
Peter Doig
an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, February 5–April 27, 2008; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, May 21–September 14, 2008; and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 9, 2008–January 11, 2009.
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The Nerve of Frida Kahlo
May 15, 2008
Frida Kahlo
an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 27, 2007–January 20, 2008; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 20–May 18, 2008; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 16–September 28, 2008.
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The Nerve and the Will
March 6, 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly a film directed by Julian Schnabel
Before Night Falls a film directed by Julian Schnabel
Basquiat a film directed by Julian Schnabel
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt
C.V.J.: Nicknames of Maitre D’s & Other Excerpts from Life
by Julian Schnabel
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Local Hero
October 25, 2007
Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney with a Catalogue of His Works by Linda Bantel and Peter H. Hassrick, with essays by Sarah E. Boehme and Mark F. Bockrath, edited by Kathleen Luhrs
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Magic Show
September 27, 2007
Neo Rauch at the Met: para
Neo Rauch: para catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow and Werner Spies
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The Hogarth Show
June 28, 2007
Hogarth
Catalog of the exhibition by Mark Hallett and Christine Riding
Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts inEighteenth-Century Britain
by Robin Simon
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A Track All His Own
April 12, 2007
Martìn Ramìrez
Catalog of the exhibition by Brooke Davis Anderson, with essays by Vìctor M. Espinosa and Kristin E. Espinosa, Daniel Baumann, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, a foreword by Maria Ann Conelli, and an introduction by Robert Storr.
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The Master Builder
March 15, 2007
Orson Welles: Volume 2, Hello Americans
by Simon Callow
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career
by Joseph McBride
Orson Welles: Volume 1, The Road to Xanadu
by Simon Callow
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles
by Frank Brady
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
by David Thomson
This Is Orson Welles
by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, with a new introduction by Peter Bogdanovich
The Magic World of Orson Welles
by James Naremore
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The Neglected Master
September 21, 2006
Cotman in the North: Watercolours of Durham and Yorkshire
by David Hill
The Life of John Sell Cotman by Sydney D. Kitson
John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
edited by Miklos Rajnai
Romantic Landscape: The Norwich School of Painters
by David Blayney Brown, Andrew Hemingway, and Anne Lyles
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Ingres vs. Ingres
July 13, 2006
Ingres: 1780–1867 Catalog of the exhibition by Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Éric Bertin
Ingres and His Critics
by Andrew Carrington Shelton
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Sickert’s Theater
May 25, 2006
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris, 1870–1910
Catalog of the exhibition by Anna Gruetzner Robins and Richard Thomson
Walter Sickert: A Life
by Matthew Sturgis
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White Secrets
February 9, 2006
Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape
Catalog of the exhibition by Seymour Slive
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The Energizer
May 12, 2005
Dali
Catalog of the exhibition by Dawn Ades and Michael Taylor
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A World of His Own
April 28, 2005
Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies
by Manny Farber
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Ladies in Satin
February 10, 2005
Gerard ter Borch
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
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Wölfli’s Empire
May 29, 2003
The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation
Catalog of the exhibition by Elka Spoerri and Daniel Baumann, with an essay by Edward M. Gomez and a foreword by Gerard C. Werkin
Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli
by Walter Morgenthaler, M.D., translated from the German and with an introduction and notes by Aaron H. Esman, M.D., with Elka Spoerri
Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis, Works from the Prinzhorn Collection
by Bettina Brand-Claussen, Inge Jádi, and Caroline Douglas
The Discovery of the Art of the Insane
by John M. MacGregor
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The Instinct Artist
May 1, 2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880–1938
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Jill Lloyd and Magdalena M. Moeller
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The Genius of the Family
April 10, 2003
Édouard Vuillard
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Guy Cogeval
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The Tiny Grandeur of Max Beerbohm
February 13, 2003
Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life
by N. John Hall
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The Philadelphia Story
August 15, 2002
Thomas Eakins: American Realist
Catalog of the exhibition organized by Darrel Sewell
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The Master of the Blur
April 11, 2002
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
Catalog of the exhibition by Robert Storr
Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977
by Robert Storr
The Daily Practice of Painting
by Gerhard Richter
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The Devil and Giacometti
January 17, 2002
Alberto Giacometti Catalog of the exhibition edited by Christian Klemm, in collaboration with Carolyn Lanchner, Tobia Bezzola, and Anne Umland
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To Be a Pilgrim
November 29, 2001
Gwen John: A Life
by Sue Roe
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Camera Work
May 31, 2001
Vermeer and the Delft School Catalog of the exhibition by Walter Liedtke, with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger.
Vermeer’s Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces
Philip Steadman
Vermeer: A View of Delft Anthony Bailey
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Your Teeth Are Showing
March 29, 2001
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Back to the Future
February 8, 2001
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn
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Artist with a Calling
June 15, 2000
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art
by Justin Spring
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art an exhibition at the AXA Gallery, New York, March 23-May 27, 2000
Selections from the Fairfield Porter Papers Institution, New York, March 16-July 10, 2000 an exhibition at the Archives of American Art/Smithsonian
Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935-1975 (1983) by Fairfield Porter, edited and with an introduction by Rackstraw Downes
Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (1992) by John T. Spike
Fairfield Porter: The Collected Poems, with Selected Drawings (1985) edited by John Yau, by with David Kermani, with an introduction by John Ashbery
Thomas Eakins (1959) by Fairfield Porter
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The Suspended Moment
February 10, 2000
Heade, Martin Johnson 1999- January 16, 2000; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 13-May 7, 2000; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 28-August 17, 2000.
an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 29,, Catalog of the exhibition by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with contributions by Janet L. Comey, by Karen E. Quinn, by Jim Wright
Martin Johnson Heade: A Survey, 1840-1900
by Barbara Novak, by Timothy A. Eaton
The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks 1999-January 2, 2000; the Denver Art Museum, February 12-April 30, 2000; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, September 24, 2000-February 7, 2001; originally at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Colonial Will
an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 10,, Catalog of the exhibition by Carolyn J. Weekley, with the assistance of Laura Pass Barry
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Top of the Class
November 24, 1983
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
by John Updike
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The Lovers
August 18, 1983
Man’s Best Friend: Photographs and Drawings by William Wegman, with an introduction by Laurence Wieder
Wegman’s World by Lisa Lyons, by Kim Levin
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He Aims to Please
April 14, 1983
David Hockney Photographs by David Hockney
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The Prince of Pure Feeling
January 20, 1983
An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes edited and translated by Philip B Miller
Plays by Heinrich von Kleist, edited by Walter Hinderer
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Anselm Kiefer, in Love with Loss
August 19, 2011
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Slide Show: Otto Dix
July 20, 2010
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Innocuous Items Gone Creepily Wrong: Taking the Pulse of Art in New York
March 31, 2010
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Slide Show: Luc Tuymans
January 22, 2010
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The Tender Art of David Park
November 13, 2009