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Renzo Piano: Lightness Reconsidered
Paul Klee Museum in Berne, by Renzo Piano The notion of a ‘light modernity’ is suggestive. ‘There is one theme that is very important for me,’ Piano remarks: ‘Lightness (and obviously not in reference...
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Martin Puryear’s Allusive Minimalism
Ladder for Booker T. Washington, by Martin Puryear On Sunday, when the Museum of Modern Art’s 30-year retrospective of the sculptor Martin Puryear opens, the New York art world will find itself in...
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Piet Oudolf: New Wave Planting
“All my work is related to trying to recreate spontaneous feeling of plants in nature. The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature,” said Piet Oudolf. On a cold January afternoon...
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Morgan Libary and the Uffizi
From a review of the show, “Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawings From the Uffizi” which runs through April 20 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. The Punishment of...
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Zhu Pei and New Chinese Architecture
Zhu Pei worked with a manufacturer of fiberglass-reinforced plastic to develop a translucent fiberglass block for his Blur Hotel in Beijing. The architect wanted the building, which will sit near the...
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More Kudos for Olafur
Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic inventor and engineer of minimalist spectacle, is so much better than anyone else in today’s ranks of crowd-pleasing installational artists that there should be a...
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Vitruvian Man, by Leonardo da Vinci In an early chapter of his interesting new book, Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus du Sautoy describes a visit to the Alhambra, the great...
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The State of Classical Realsim
In 1959, the critic Clement Greenberg wrote that “the very best painting, the major painting, of our age is almost exclusively abstract.” It was a tune Greenberg sang early and often. He said similar...
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Anish Kapoor at the ICA
From a review of Anish Kapoor’s new show at Boston’s ICA: Mr. Kapoor shouldn’t be considered merely derivative. He combines too many disparate strands of art, thought and culture, and he does it...
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Beauty and Kitsch
Peter Battistoni, Canwest News Service So what’s wrong with kitsch, exactly? It’s garish, tasteless and sentimental, of course. Garden gnomes and conventions of Elvis impersonators may be its most...
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