Events: February 28, 2013
Selected by Francine Prose
October 24, 2012 – April 14, 2013
The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Museuem of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston
How tepid and colorless the text message and the tweet seem compared to these mini-masterpieces of snail mail.
Category: Exhibition
Reviewed in the NYRblog
February 15, 2013 – April 28, 2013
Marcel Proust and Swann’s Way: 100th Anniversary
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
In the NYRBlog, Colm Tóibín writes, “Visitors lining up to see the word “madeleine” as it appeared in Proust’s handwriting for the first time are in for a shock.”
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Selected by Philip Gossett
February 20, 2013 – May 12, 2013
Picasso and Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
This exhibition is drawn largely from the city's own private collectors and from the Art Institute itself, so it does not simply show off what is well known or has been often reproduced.
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Selected by Ingrid D. Rowland
February 2, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Pietro Bembo and the Invention of the Renaissance
Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padova
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) romanced Lucrezia Borgia, climbed Mount Etna and invented the semicolon. Titian painted his portrait. An exhibition in Padua focuses on the man and his collection, both extraordinary.
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Reviewed in the NYR
February 12, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Piero della Francesca in America
The Frick Collection, New York
In the March 21 issue, Walter Kaiser writes, “What, in the end, is most idiosyncratic about the quattrocentro artist Piero della Francesca is the essential nature of his mind, which was molded both by artistic and by mathematical perceptions.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
January 24, 2013 – May 26, 2013
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
The American Folk Art Museum, New York
In the May 9 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “This exhibition of the mid-nineteenth-century portraitist William Matthew Prior refutes the idea that antebellum American artists usually showed African-Americans in a trivializing manner.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
February 26, 2013 – May 27, 2013
Paris: The Thrill of the Modern
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the May 9 issue, Anka Muhlstein writes, “What makes this exhibition so interesting is the concept of the modernity of art as it was understood by the artists of the last half of the nineteenth century.”
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Selected by Francine Prose
February 8, 2013 – August 4, 2013
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
The bottle cap has never looked more transcendently beautiful than it does in the art of El Anatsui.
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