Events: March 16, 2013, Exhibition
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 NYRblog
March 5, 2013 – May 27, 2013
‘Street’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
On the NYRblog, J. Hoberman writes: "An engrossing and celebratory hour-long video projection of life in New York City."
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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 Ingrid D. Rowland
March 5, 2013 – June 16, 2013
‘Titian’ in Rome
Scuderie del Quirinale , Rome
Titian visited Rome twice in his life, and now he is back with forty paintings for an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.
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Selected by Martin Filler
March 10, 2013 – June 24, 2013
Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Go see MoMA’s “Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light” for the ravishing Beaux-Arts watercolors and some of the most marvelous building models you’ll ever encounter.
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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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