There’s a great exhibit up at the Milwaukee Art Museum now through January 3 2010, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade. This is the first US museum show to look exclusively at the later works of Warhol, an era often overshadowed by the Marilyns, Maos and soup cans of his earlier career. This [...]
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Benton and Pollock
Visitors to the Swope admiring Thomas Hart Benton’s painting Threshing Wheat may be surprised to learn that the realist Benton was an influential mentor to abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. An article in the Smithsonian describes their relationship a bit and brings up some interesting points about Pollock’s work.
The author of the article, Henry Adams, suggests [...]
The Forger’s Spell
Recently, a painting at the Met has been reattributed to Velazquez. The painting, a portrait of a man in his 30s appropriately known as “Portrait of a Man”, initially entered the museum as a Velazquez in 1949, and some 30 years later it was demoted when experts declared that it was the work of a [...]