Maurice Utrillo: Un peintre solitaire qui aimait Paris
Lapin Agile, 1914 Maurice Utrillo is one of those artists who seem to defy gravity. When you take a good, long look at his canvases a...
The Rich Restlessness of Rubens
The Resurrected Christ Triumphant (ca. 1616) The 17th-century Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens is a great historical painter...
Francis Bacon：The Restlessness of Human Existence
Study of George Dyer, 1969 In the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman , there is a famous scene where the Joker and his gang break into an ...
Mixed Media: Bird
This is a mixed media work I created in about five seconds, using a found object, namely a blurry photo from an exhibition catalogue, an...
Rembrandt Still Outshines Vermeer
Susanna by Rembrandt The first exhibition at the newly renovated Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (TMMA) was always going to be an im...
Joan Miro: Graffiti for a Post-Franco Spain
House with Palm Tree, 1918 No artist's life and work – not even Picasso's – better represents the modern history of Spain as ...
Collection: Skull Doodle by Doctor Lakra
Back in 2008 I was covering the "Goth" exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art for the International Herald Tribune Asahi S...
Left Alone With Henri Le Sidaner
La Table bleue, Gerberoy, 1923 There are several points at which the conventional language of art criticism breaks down. The French p...
Iwami Furusawa: One man’s porn is...
Daughter of Bacchus (1983) Sexuality is polymorphous. It has to be. This is because — rightly or wrongly — it often faces rigid repre...
The Esoteric Influence of Taro Okamoto
Alien named PAIRA, 1956 Visiting the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art is always a fascinating experience. Located in Kawasaki's heavily...
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