picasso

August 12, 2020 by Natalie Sandstrom

Tapestries sparkle in isolated pandemic viewing, Marie Cuttoli at The Barnes

Natalie Sandstrom visits a newly opened, limited capacity, Barnes Foundation to check out “Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray” and finds that distance makes the works shine even brighter.

May 25, 2014 by Andrea Kirsh

Books on new approaches to art and its institutions, part I

March 7, 2013 by Andrea Kirsh

Outsider Art and the Mainstream – A Symposium at the PMA

July 9, 2012 by Andrea Kirsh

Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse – Visions of Arcadia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

May 1, 2011 by Kaitlin Pomerantz

Music triple play–Martin Guitar Factory, the Met and MoMA

February 21, 2011 by Andrea Kirsh

Picasso, Music and Negative Space; the Guitars at MoMA

January 4, 2011 by Matthew Rose

Alan Riding: On Cultural Life In Nazi-Occupied Paris

March 18, 2010 by Libby and Roberta

Picasso and the Avant-Garde and who?

A stealth contemporary art work is nestling inside the very core of the Picasso and the Avant-Garde exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Virgil Marti’s pouf, aka Sigmund, sits in a place of honor–dead center in the beautiful terra cotta red salon room that replicates the 1912 Salon d’Automne. Sigmund is meant for reclining.