Art’s ‘edge effect’
byMichael Gitlitz’s career in the New York art world brought him full circle to his home and the neighboring Katonah Museum of Art.
Michael Gitlitz’s career in the New York art world brought him full circle to his home and the neighboring Katonah Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will take a probing look at jewelry, from what it is to why we wear it, in “Jewelry: The Body Transformed.” The expansive exhibition will open Nov. 12.
For more than 80 years, something special gleamed through the trees in the backyard of the late architect and sculptor Horton O’Neil. At first…
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When the French want to impress – and dress – they go to Versailles.
In 19th century France, a perfect storm of revolutionary equality and maritime botanical discoveries ushered in a new era of landscaping and, with it, a new approach to art.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, husband-and-wife artists born on the same day, enveloped the world in fabric.
The agony and the ecstasy – mostly ecstasy – of Michelangelo at The Met.
Technology has cost me one job and, often, my patience. But then, there’s Mr. Washing Machine and planet Pluto.
Sculptor Auguste Rodin, whose 100th death anniversary is being commemorated this year, located the pain in love’s pleasure.
WAG’s resident Sinologist, Audrey Ronning Topping, considers the ruthless magnificence of the Qin and Han Dynasties – and the fleeting nature of empire – in a new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit.
In the quietude of The Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ South and Southeast Asia Galleries lies an exhibit for the garden of the soul. “An Artist of Her Time: Y.G. Srimati and the Indian Style” (through June 5) is, in curator John Guy’s own words, “a modest show.”
Georges Seurat, the late-19th century French painter, is best-known for two things — his Pointillist or dot technique and its ultimate expression, “A Sunday…
Like politics, art is not immune to the swing of the pendulum. Where the traditional and the representational once reigned, the contemporary and the…
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If a dress is made by hand, it’s better than one made by machine… right? That long-held belief is being challenged, in a most…
Any careful reading of the operating hours of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan yields the fact that in addition…