FIONA MADDOCKS THE latest incarnation of Kate Moss is 3.3 metres high, virginal white, and with limbs contorted in bestial beauty, like a Shiva. Her half-smile, dreamy and glazed, stares out through curtains of hair. Her androgynous body teeters precipitously on her coccyx, legs splayed and flaunting all for anyone who cares to see. "Wherever we look, Kate Moss's image has become part of our mythology," observes the softly spoken artist Marc Quinn, who sculpted the supermodel as Myth (Sphinx), now itself part of that image-making process. "In whatever form, in newspapers, magazines, on the...
Henry Moore: Smooth operator
The Himalayan
The Himalayan
LONDON: Among a number of small and often strange shumanoid sculptures ssitting on low plinths in Tate Britain's Henry Moore exhibition, there is an object that made me laugh out loud. But it was a laugh tempered by...
Michelangelo's drawings at the Courtauld Gallery are intimate encounter with an artist in love
The Guardian
The Guardian
In one room, this sensational exhibition shows the greatest drawings that survive from Michelangelo's hand...
Palm fond
National Post
National Post
By Robert Fulford, National PostMarch 9, 2010 12:00 AM On Palm Sunday, which falls this year on March 28, churches pass out palm leaves to commemorate the day when (according to the Gospel) crowds of followers scattered...
No Offense
New Yorker
New Yorker
ABSTRACT: THE ART WORLD review of the Whitney Biennial. The writer believes the most arresting work in the Whitney Biennial is by Charles Ray—a roomful of fifteen large drawings of flowers in multicolored inks. Ray...
Tender Mercies in Deadly Combats
The New York Times
The New York Times
Lar Lubovitch's second Joyce Theater program is something of a hybrid: half jazz, half moody duets, with two generally upbeat jazz works from the first program book-ending a pair of premieres. "Vita Nova," new only to...
From Ethnic to Elegant
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
MILAN -- Where have all the Bohos gone? The hippie de luxe look that has lingered so long on the runways has been crisped up, making patchwork more an exercise in fabric placement than an emblem of folklore and...
Art
New Yorker
New Yorker
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Drawings of Bronzino.” Through April 18. | “Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian...



