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November 16, 2017 by Matthew Rose

Matthew writes about the wonderful “art show” you see in the underground walkways and along the platforms of the Paris Metro, with large scale posters from Paris’s 130 museums plastered throughout and making the experience a kind of art history lesson on the move.

April 26, 2017 by Matthew Rose

Medium Cool – Artists as Pitchmen

Spurred by seeing a recent ad in which artist Maurizio Cattelan appears, Matthew Rose reflects on the relationship between artists and advertising. He asks, why haven’t more artists appeared in or contributed to major advertising campaigns?

April 29, 2016 by Andrea Kirsh

International Pop at the PMA

And perhaps this last is one of the most significant points the exhibition makes: despite an international interest in the commercial vernacular and the visual impact of the media, the works in the exhibition can only be truly understood within the cultures that produced them. This leaves serious viewers with the realization that the information in many of the introductory labels is insufficient background for a real understanding of the art and how it functioned in its native territory.

November 22, 2015 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for the Holidays Pt. 1

Almost half the paintings Klimt made in the last 20 years of his life were landscapes, all of them done—or at least initiated—during the summer, when the artist, like all Viennese bourgeoisie, retreated to the countryside.

October 15, 2013 by Andrea Kirsh

Romancing the Machine – Léger, Modern Art and the Metropolis at the Philadelphia Museum of Art