3/24/14 3/24/14

Dennis Kardon on Edouard Manet

Pasty male flesh, muscled hairy chests, leather, fur, rope-bound hands, a bloody cloth and a whip: this painting is intriguing to contemplate in reproduction...

3/20/14 3/20/14

Julian Kreimer on Rufino Tamayo

It doesn’t ask for our attention, rather its very self-sufficiency inspires fascination in us.

3/13/14 3/13/14

Sarah Walker on Shiva Vishvarupa

Before I can grasp it with my mind, this painting has already saturated and immobilized me. What am I looking at? Not so much a painting as a force.

3/6/14 3/6/14

Frances Barth on Piero della Francesca

The amazing spatial adjustments of the trees on the left had for me an energy and restraint at the same time that seemed almost to be a choreographed ballet.

2/27/14 2/27/14

Elisabeth Condon on Henri Matisse

Matisse was a traveler, more than we’d think, given the large internal scale of his forms and pared-down, architectonic compositions that establish a sense of timelessness in his best works.

2/24/14 2/24/14

David Humphrey on James Ensor

The painting is a force-field of conflicting languages and subjects - civility and barbarous imagination, the desire to communicate and a possibility that no connection is possible.

2/20/14 2/20/14

Zachary Keeting on Cham Hendon

It’s a gorgeous uneven embrace. Wander those borderlines and check out all the moments of cross-contamination, of porous influence, of impingement.

2/17/14 2/17/14

Anne Harris on Dieric Bouts: Feeling Painting and Painting Feeling

This is my go to painting. When I’m downtown with any time to spare, I’m here. If I’m in the museum for any reason, I touch base here.

2/13/14 2/13/14

Tom Burckhardt on Allan McCollum

They crack me up as a group; one guy in a monkey-suit tuxedo, not so funny, but a room full, hilarious!

2/10/14 2/10/14

Jenny Lynn McNutt on The Duende of El Greco's Laocoon

Stretch, a moment, a hide taut between threads and wind the threads around a wooden frame. Stitch this skin, recently nestled over sinew and muscle and organ and bone...