I swung down to Memphis, Tenn. last week to spend some time with the great American photographer William Eggleston. A big traveling retrospective of his work opens on Nov. 7 at the Whitney Museum in New York. As usual I’ll split this conversation into several posts.
LACAYO: You were born in 1939. When your father went off to the …
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “Action/Abstraction”, partly because the show recently landed at its second venue, the St. Louis Art Museum. It’s about Abstract Expressionism and the the various kinds of abstraction that followed it, as seen through the lens of the rivalry between Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, the …
I’ll return to serious blogging later today. For now I just wanted to announce that the Time.com blogs, which experienced some serious tech problems on Friday, are back up and running. Including this one. The archive of older posts will also be back soon.
Whew.
Faithful TIME.com blog-readers may have noticed something odd today: the blogs kind of disappeared. Long story short, we’ve had major server problems, and as a result we’ve had to re-launch all of our blogs on WordPress. The upside is a faster, better, more stable platform. The downside is we’ll need a few days to get our archives back …
If you’re in the L.A. area, there are still three days left to see the phenomenal show of Bernini’s portrait busts at the Getty Center, which I caught up with a few weeks ago. (Next stop Ottawa, its only other …
It looks like the real estate slowdown is creating problems for the Chicago Spire, the super-sized condo tower designed by Santiago Calatrava. Planned to top out at around 115 stories, it will be the tallest building in America — if it gets built. The …
In Boston last week I sat down for a conversation with Rachel Whiteread, the most prominent British sculptor of her generation. She’s the subject right now of a small, somewhat fitful show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It centers …
While I was traveling last week there was a further blip in the ongoing struggle over the plan to uproot the Barnes Foundation from its home in Merion, Pa. and truck its art collection over to Philadelphia. On the arts blog of the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, the Times art critic, burrowed into remarks that Pennsylvania Gov. …
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On my out to San Francisco last month I swung though Los Angeles for a couple of days. One thing I was there to see were the new galleries for pre-Columbian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They were designed by the artist Jorge Pardo as …
The first thing to be said about the British Museum’s current exhibition about the Roman Emperor Hadrian is that it makes you understand why Neil MacGregor, the British Museum’s director, wants more space. MacGregor wants to build an addition that will …
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