Articles about Robert Hughes Brief Time Magazine Biography of Robert Hughes Salon Magazine on American Visions "With his finely tuned [BS] meter and his dramatic flair, Robert Hughes has become America's best guide through the thickets of fine art." (May, 1997) Toronto Sun Article: Meet Robert Hughes, the World's Greatest Art Critic "Hughes is a great critic for his vitriol alone. His crisp, beautifully paced annihilation of fake artists like Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel is marvellous to read at a time when it is considered gauche to criticize anything." (June 1, 1997) The Critic in Exile New York Times article about Hughes' recent legal problems in Australia -- the fallout from a 1999 head-on collision which nearly killed him. (January 14, 2001) Robert Hughes, an Australian Tragedy Recent article on Hughes' troubles, including the death of his son. (July 20, 2001) Robert Hughes in his Own Words 1997 Salon Magazine Interview with Robert Hughes "I hate all those bastards with faces like silver teapots at Sotheby's -- all of that hypermarketing of art turns me right off. Because it intersects with a fatal propensity for sanctimony. I don't like the idea of art being a pseudo-religion. I love genuinely visionary, mystical art." Text of a 1996 address to the International Society for the Performing Arts "There's no contradiction attached to liking both Tiepolo and Doonesbury, both country-and-western and Mozart. The task is to distinguish, without snobbery or condescension, between the good stuff, the absolute crap, and everything that lies between..." Robert Hughes on Picasso as the most influential artist of the 20th century "[Picasso's] death left the public with a nostalgia for genius that no talent today, in the field of painting, can satisfy." Robert Hughes' Writings in Time Magazine Time Magazine now only has a small selection of articles available online. Time articles as far back as 1985 are available but must be purchased individually. However, all of these articles (and much more besides) are available if you register for a free seven-day trial of HighBeam.
2003/02/03 He Drew Like An Angel A superb show surveys the conflicted, elusive but masterly graphics of Leonardo da Vinci. 2002/12/09 Mighty Medici The rulers of Renaissance Florence were legendary patrons of art. A splendid show surveys their legacy. 2002/07/29 Reflections Lucian Freud reveals his "innermost feelings" at London's Tate Britain. 2002/05/27 Goya's Women Demonic witches, cheeky majas, blond angels--he portrayed every she-creature the eye could light on. 2002/05/06 The Unblinking Blur From banal photos, Gerhard Richter forged a new direction for German art. 2002/03/18 Flyaway Fantasy Rediscovering the charm and wit--and influence--of Paul Klee. 2002/01/14 A World Of Grownups Urban sophistication was the theme of John Koch's life and of his work. And both look alluring today. 2001/12/24 When Beauty Was Virtue The great Italian Renaissance portraits of women were dream images. But truthful likenesses? No 2001/12/17 The Joy Of Color Long in Seurat's shadow, Paul Signac was a terrific painter in his own right 2001/09/10 Escaping the Provincial Trap South America's 20th century abstractionists found a way to be local - and universal 2001/08/13 The Aesthete as Popeye It's time to give the raucous, war-haunted H.C. Westermann his due as a major sculptor 2001/07/16 The Poet of Pastry Wayne Thiebaud offers deep pleasures in the everyday, from pies and cakes to slices of landscape 2001/07/09 Martin Puryear A master of both modernism and traditional crafts, he creates sculptures that are a synthesis of beauty but free of cliche 2001/06/18 Chatting with the Devil, Dining with Prophets Seer, bard and oddball, artist-poet William Blake poured his passions into uniquely visionary images 2001/05/07 Shadows and Light A survey of Vermeer and his fellow artists in Delft shows why he was the master 2001/03/26 Still Fresh as Ever After a century, Manet's still lifes remain knockouts 2001/03/19 Buddha Bashing Afghanistan has few treasures left. So why are the Taliban intent on demolishing what remains? 2001/03/05 A Foundling of the Louvre Balthus: 1909-2001 2001/02/26 Missionary of the New Battler, moralist and connoisseur, Alfred Stieglitz was the premier champion of Modernism in the U.S. 2001/02/05 A Beauty Really Bare Do the Minimalist austerities of Sol LeWitt amount to a saint's hair shirt or just the Emperor's new clothes? 2000/12/11 A Flawed Ex-Paradise Promised land or hell of black insecurity? A vast exhibit evokes California's saga of innocence lost. 2000/10/23 The Subtle Magic of Koetsu A rare U.S. exhibit shows why the 17th century master's works are national treasures in Japan 2000/09/11 The Real Australia Americans know a lot about the place, most of it wrong. Our art critic evokes its true glories and flaws as only a native son can. 2000/07/31 Silent Mysteries The quiet, marvelous paintings of Chardin capture things as they really are, making him the genius of the 18th century bourgeois imagination 2000/07/10 Kissing a Grimy Princess By turning a power station into a gallery of modern art, London's Tate brilliantly clarifies its collections 2000/06/05 The Stuff Modernism Overthrew In a fascinating exhibit, the fashionable art of the year 1900 doesn't hold up well. But then, how will 2000's favorites look a century from now? 2000/03/13 The Two Faces of Dali Both the young genius and the lying old fanatic are on display in a new show 2000/03/06 The Auction House Scandal Once unquestioned and all-powerful, Sotheby's and Christie's are reeling from a sweeping investigation of their business 2000/01/01 A Livable Treasure-House The Phillips Collection mounts a splendid show to commemorate itself and its dedicated founder 1999/12/27 Spain's Conquistador Velazquez's paintings raised Iberian art to the level of 17th century Europe's greatest masters 1999/07/05 Fella Down a Hole You don't know the frontier spirit until you've met Australia's hardy opal miners 1999/06/07 An Impressionist Abroad New Orleans through the eyes of Edgar Degas 1999/05/31 Mocker of All Styles Edgy and elusive, Germany's Sigmar Polke flits through the image haze of consumerist society 1999/05/24 Fine, Indecipherable Flourishes Saul Steinberg: 1914-1999 1999/05/10 A Nation's Self-Image Can all of American art in the 20th century be encompassed in a museum show? In New York, the Whitney gives it a brave try -- with balance, care and a keen eye for th 1999/05/03 From Assisi's Treasury A show of medieval works serves as a reminder of repair efforts on the quake-damaged church 1999/04/19 Lifting the Spirit Britain's Sir Norman Foster wins the Pritzker for his innovative, humane designs around the world 1999/03/29 A True Visual Sensualist Modernists once dismissed John Singer Sargent's society portraits. They were wrong. 1999/03/08 The Faces of an Epoch Ingres's portraits captured the 19th century upper crust with uncanny precision, brio and power 1999/02/22 Visionary Homebody The 17th century Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch raised orderly domesticity to the level of sanctity 1999/02/01 Puzzles of a Courtier In 400 years we've lost the key to Dosso Dossi 1998/12/14 Style was Key In Washington, a magnificent show of 2 1/2 centuries of Japanese art 1998/11/23 Flittering in the Dells The English penchant for painting fairies makes for a worthwhile, if peculiar, exhibition 1998/11/02 Visions of Two Raw Continents Compared with America's, Australia's landscapes of the 1800s saw a bleaker beauty 1998/10/26 Wynn Win? Opening his $1.6 billion Picasso palace, Steve Wynn bets he can turn Las Vegas into a class act 1998/10/19 Steel-Drivin' Man Richard Serra's massive new sculptures, as big as houses, create a wholly original spatial drama 1998/09/07 Down-Home Populist With his vignettes of rural Yankee life, William Sidney Mount was America's first genre painter... 1998/08/31 A Shimmer of Hints In the luminous, intimate world of Bonnard, all is shifting, dissolving, teasingly half glimpsed 1998/08/17 Going Out on the Edge Our critic finds speed, beauty and a glimpse of his youth at the Guggenheim's motorcycle show 1998/06/29 Sculptural One-Liners Charles Ray's conceptual works project a portrait of the artist as smart, nerdy and passive-aggressive 1998/06/15 An Escapist's Dreamworld Modern taste rediscovers the work of Edward Burne-Jones 1998/06/08 Most Influential Artist of the Century: Pablo Picasso Famous as no artist ever had been, he was a pioneer, a master and a protean monster, with a hand in every art movement of the century 1998/05/04 The Merry Modernist By setting sculpture in motion, Alexander Calder made it fluent, witty and supremely friendly 1998/04/27 Sublime Windbag Writer, lover, national hero, Victor Hugo was also a brilliant draftsman of the unconscious 1998/04/13 Close Encounters Throughout his career, Chuck Close has focused on faces. What he shows is more than skin deep. 1998/03/09 A Passion for the New In the Jazz Age, America discovered its cultural voice 1998/03/02 Master of Visual Slang Léger saw machines as the poetry of Modernism 1998/01/19 Hold Those Paintings! The Manhattan D.A. seizes alleged Nazi loot 1997/12/22 Embedded in Nature Arthur Dove, a pioneering U.S. modernist, took his abstract forms from rocks, trees, sea and sun 1997/12/08 God is in the Vectors The luminous architecture of Richard Diebenkorn's paintings 1997/11/24 Auctioneers' Slugfest The '80s market boom is history. so Christie's and Sothebys now try to outpromote each other 1997/11/03 Bravo! Bravo! On a hill in Los Angeles and by a river in Spain, two leading architects unveil grandly innovative, knockout buildings that climax the age of American museum expansion 1997/10/27 The Great Permitter A vast retrospective celebrates the Whitmanesque profusion of Robert Rauschenberg 1997/10/13 Pop's Most Popular With humor and style, Roy Lichtenstein made beauty out of "trash" 1997/08/18 Ancient, Frozen Smiles A marvelous show highlights the glorious heritage of Cambodian sculpture -- and its current, desperate peril 1997/05/21 American Visions Feature Issue 1. The Images Made by America's Artists Inscribe Our Beliefs, Our Dreams -- Our Story 2. Craft: Making it Straight 3. Memory: To Shape a Past 4. Grandeur: The Beauty of Big 5. Wilderness: The Sacred Mission 6. Visionaries: Seeking the Spirit 7. Cities: Grit and Grids 8. Innovation: Breaking the Mold 9. Endpaper 1997/03/31 Desire at Full Stretch Willem de Kooning: 1904-1997 1997/03/24 A Cultural Gift from Hitler Exiled by Nazism, Europeans immensely enriched American art 1997/02/24 A Life of Bizarre Obsession Reclusive, harmlessly mad, Henry Darger created a weird secret saga that is now being celebrated as "outsider art" 1997/02/03 Venetian Virtuoso Two shows celebrate the brio, wit and power of the 18th century master Giambattista Tiepolo 1997/01/27 Days of Antic Weirdness A look back at Dadaism's brief, outrageous assault on the New York scene 1996/11/11 Behind the Sacred Aura Jasper Johns gives nothing away, but his cool, lovely mastery of indirection finally becomes claustrophobic 1996/11/04 Towering Venture Grove's new 34-volume Dictionary of Art is an epic publishing event 1996/06/24 America's Supreme Realist The popular Winslow Homer painted a masterly, penetrating -- and surprisingly dark -- vision of 19th century life 1996/06/10 Modernism's Patriarch The Cezanne exhibition in Philadelphia is an epic, humbling event, fully worthy of its great subject 1996/05/06 All-American Barbaric Yawp Raucous, corny, sometimes brilliant, Ed Kienholz assembled junk into powerful metaphors 1996/04/29 Treasures of the Empire Rising above politics, a splendid show surveys four millenniums of Chinese art 1996/03/25 Bringing Nature Home In Paris, a major new look at Corot, who moved from nymphs toward Modernism 1996/03/25 Relics of Camelot The faithful seek trophies in the sale of Jacqueline Onassis' household effects 1996/03/04 Golden Oldies An overambitious survey of the century's distinctive movement: abstraction 1996/02/19 The Epic of the City As the century turned, the Ashcan painters chronicled a new frontier: the urban scene 1996/01/22 Delight for its Own Sake Feelings, not ideas, are what matter to Howard Hodgkin, and he evokes them in colors like no other in modern painting 1996/01/08 Dutch Treat Budget politics interrupt but cannot dim the visual magic of an epochal Vermeer exhibition 1995/12/18 Funk and Chic Contrasting rough-hewn blocks with sleekly soaring curves, Brancusi's sculptures achieve a healing wholeness 1995/10/23 Purifying Nature A superb exhibition traces Mondrian's quest for images that express a universal order 1995/10/09 Rising Star How John Singleton Copley became Colonial America's best portraitist 1995/09/18 Camping Under Glass The ghost of Florine Stettheimer, remote and glittering, evokes a period between the wars in a new show at the Whitney 1995/08/07 Pulling the Fuse on Culture The conservatives' all-out assault on federal funding is unenlightened, uneconomic and undemocratic 1995/07/24 Whistler Unveiled Behind the legend, a fine, not great, painter 1995/07/17 Under the Crack of Reality Edward Hopper saw an America that no other painter had got right. Now we can't see it without seeing him. 1995/06/26 Rising from the Ruins A show records how Europe reaffirmed its artistic vitality after World War II, when the action had moved to New York 1995/05/22 Food for Thought In 17th and 18th century Spanish still lifes, everyday objects are set against a perspective of fleeting time and death 1995/04/24 Being a Nuisance His work is deliberately off-putting, but Bruce Nauman has become the most influential American artist of his generation 1995/04/17 Peculiar But Grand Unknown outside Australia, the proud and isolated Ian Fairweather brilliantly mixed the styles of east and west 1995/04/03 The Spoils of War Russia's new displays of art looted from Germany reignite a debate over who rightfully owns such plunder 1995/03/06 History's Bad Dreams The embattled R.B. Kitaj evokes edgy poetry from the 20th century image-memory 1995/02/13 Behold the Stone Age Powerful paintings in a long-hidden cave offer glimpses into the minds of our early ancestors 1995/01/30 A Soaring Well of Light Mario Botta designs an elegant museum for San Francisco. now the institution must live up to its new environs 1995/01/23 The Man Who Painted IMPACT A show takes a new look at Franz Kline's bold, slashing black-and-white paintings of the 1950s 1995/01/09 Drinking the Color In his pioneering sojourn in Morocco, Delacroix learned from its vibrant hues and patterns how to evoke a living antiquity 1994/12/05 Decorum and Fury A historic exhibition shows the force of reality and mystery in the work of Poussin 1994/11/14 New Dawn What shaped the vision of the great Impressionists? 1994/10/17 Russia's Secret Spoils of World War II The Hermitage in St. Petersburg breaks its silence on a hidden trove of Impressionist treasures 1994/10/17 The Grafitti of Loss In nuanced abstractions, America's Cy Twombly shores up scribbly fragments against the ruins of the past 1994/07/11 America's Prodigy Thomas Cole's landscapes of the young nation as an imperiled Arcadia made him a culture hero 1994/07/04 Baby Dali An exhibit shows that the young Salvador Dali thought he could do anything, and he almost could 1994/05/30 Seeing the Face in the Fire Though it omits sculpture and drawing, a De Kooning retrospective proves his genius once again 1994/05/16 Auctions in the Pits The once aggressive squillionaire buyers are staying away from contemporary art, and the mood at auction houses is glum 1994/05/02 Seeking the Wild Little known outside of Australia, Arthur Boyd is a world-class painter 1994/01/24 Icons of Stalinism Soviet Socialist Realism portrayed a godlike Maximum Leader reigning over a communist heaven 1993/12/27 The Fat Lady Sings An exhibit affirms Lucian Freud, 71, as the best realist painter alive 1993/12/06 Dolls and Discontents A show at the Whitney Museum highlights the flailing adolescent outlook and weird confessional talent of Mike Kelley 1993/11/22 Stanzas from a Black Epic The 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence's great Migration series present piercing images of the African-American experience 1993/11/08 Roy Lichtenstein: The Image Duplicator At New York's Guggenheim Museum, a splashy retrospective hails the ironies of Pop's cool and ever reliable academic 1993/10/25 The Purest Dreamer in Paris On his centenary, a lavish show celebrates the precise yet hauntingly poetic vision of Catalan artist Joan Miro 1993/10/11 A Paler Shade of White In a retrospective, the nuanced but narrow Minimalism of Robert Ryman casts a spell 1993/10/04 The View from Piccadilly In London, a survey of modern American art is spotty and distorted 1993/09/13 Mechanics Illustrated Comic grace and a needling mysteriousness inform much of Rebecca Horn's eccentric sculpture 1993/08/16 When the Easel Went POP The explosive arrival of the mass media into painting in the late '50s was not so radical as it seems 1993/07/26 An Outlaw Who Loved Laws France's Jean Dubuffet proclaimed himself a raw radical, but a new show displays his ease with nuance and tradition 1993/07/12 Yankee Against the Grain A lyrical show highlights the landscape mastery of Fairfield Porter 1993/06/28 A Shambles in Venice (The 45th Venice Biennale) 1993/06/21 Envoy to Two Cultures A scholar and humanist, Edward Said is the controversial voice of Palestine in America and an eloquent mediator between the Middle East and the West 1993/06/07 Striking At the Past Itself Terrorists bomb the Uffizi, destroying lives and precious artifacts of civilization 1993/06/07 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Dark Visions of Primal Myth 1993/05/10 Opening the Barnes Door Amid lawsuits and controversy, one of the world's great semi-unknown collections begins a tour at last 1993/05/03 The Iron Age of Sculpture A show looks at some 20th century sculptors who changed the material and nature of the art 1993/04/12 Brush with Genius Now playing in Paris: a sublime show of Titian, one of the half dozen most influential artists ever 1993/03/22 A Fiesta of Whining Preachy and political, the Whitney Biennial celebrates sodden cant and cliche 1993/03/08 Vitality's Signature The drawings of Daumier powerfully capture the muck and detail of life 1993/03/01 Signs of Anxiety In a retrospective, American artist Susan Rothenberg emerges from the '80s as a painter of mystery, originality and real staying power 1993/02/22 Wifredo Lam: Taking Back his Own Gods The Cuban artist built a bridge between the Caribbean and the avant-gardes of Paris and New York 1993/02/08 Jeff Koons: The Princeling of Kitsch 1993/01/25 Music Halls, Murder and Tabloid Pix Well ahead of his time, British painter Walter Sickert took popular culture, even the mass media, as his theme 1993/01/11 The Masterpiece Road Show An exhibit of ancient Greek sculpture is used to advance a specious political argument 1992/12/28 Telling an Inner Life By making Minimalism personal and female, Eva Hesse became a pivotal figure in American sculpture 1992/12/14 The View from Outside An exhibition honors the visionaries, obsessives and crackpots whose influence energized Modernism 1992/11/16 The Purple Haze of Hype Basquiat at the Whitney Museum 1992/11/02 Russia's Great Flowering A huge show surveys the heady moment early in the century when radical art became the house style of a political revolution 1992/10/12 Baroque Futurist To Jusepe de Ribera, "the Little Spaniard," realism was the violence of cruel images 1992/09/28 Matisse: The Color of Genius A sublime retrospective illuminates the mastery of a paladin of Modernism 1992/09/21 The Poker-Faced Enchanter A retrospective of Rene Magritte proves that the great Belgian Surrealist's mind-wrenching visual puns and paradoxes still slice cleanly 1992/08/31 William H. Johnson: Return from Alienation 1992/08/03 A Passion for Islands The Paintings of George Bellows at the Whitney Museum 1992/07/27 Homage to Barcelona Teeming and gritty, the historic Catalan capital is jealous of its independence and proud of its brilliant culture 1992/07/20 When Spain was Islamic An exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum evokes the vanished culture of the Muslim conquest of Iberia 1992/06/29 Guercino: The Vision of the Squinter 1992/06/22 The NEA: Trampled Again When Dan Quayle and the religious right talk about moral values, it can only be bad news for the arts agency, long a scapegoat for "liberal" culture 1992/06/15 Fugues in Stone and Air Long out of fashion and hard to love, Canova was nevertheless a spectacularly gifted sculptor 1992/05/25 Really Rembrandt? An exhibition in London demonstrates that many works attributed to the great master, including some famous and much loved ones, were painted by his assistants 1992/05/11 A Reliable Bag of Tricks William M. Harnett at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1992/04/20 Review: Dada for the Valley Girl 1992/04/13 The Faberge of Funk The tiny, witty works of California ceramist Ken Price belie the notion that real sculpture ought to be big 1992/03/09 Cutting through the Myth A show sweeps aside the Hollywood image of Toulouse-Lautrec and takes a full, clear look at his vibrant achievement 1992/03/02 Delight in a Shaping Hand An exhibit of the craftsmanlike, poetic forms of Martin Puryear shows why he is one of the best sculptors alive 1992/02/24 A Genius Obsessed by Stone Taking classical sculpture as his model, Mantegna populated the new world of the Renaissance 1992/02/03 The Fraying of America When a nation's diversity breaks into factions, demagogues rush in, false issues cloud debate, and everybody has a grievance 1992/01/20 Seeing Life in Jazz Tempo A major show gives the neglected Stuart Davis his due as a great, brash chronicler of the urban American scene 1991/12/09 Germany's Ironic Trickster A touring U.S. retrospective displays the political sarcasm and brilliantly mixed-up imagery of Sigmar Polke 1991/11/04 Lines That Go for a Walk The exhilarating tracery of Brice Marden's new work affirms his pre-eminence among U.S. abstract painters 1991/10/28 Wallowing in the Mass Media Sea Brash and accessible, the Pop style revolutionized the art world, for better or worse -- but what was its lasting value? A big London show suggests some answers. 1991/10/07 Putting a Zeitgeist in a Box A huge show revisits the three cities where Modernism flowered in the 1920s 1991/09/23 Against the Cult of the Moment A superb show presents Georges Seurat as an inspired lyricist who achieved grand images of mysterious permanence 1991/07/15 Approaching Absolute Zero Ad Reinhardt, gadfly and hater of bogus mysticism, reduced painting to the pure power of austerity 1991/06/10 Visual Jazz from a Sharp Eye A retrospective in Harlem illuminates the keen human observations of collagist Romare Bearden 1991/05/13 How the West was Spun A big, controversial show in Washington stirs revisions of frontier art 1991/04/29 Exhibit B in the Dud Museum The overhyped David Salle traces feebly and drones vacuously. Is there a duller or more formulaic painter in America? 1991/04/22 The Rebel Dreams of Oedipus Max Like a conspiratorial uncle, the Surrealist Max Ernst speaks anew to the subversiveness of youth 1991/03/25 The Gift of a Lifetime After a fevered but discreet competition, the Met wins a tycoon's treasured trove 1991/03/18 Modernism's Russian Front The birth of abstraction is illuminated in the energetic work of two compatriots [Kasimir Malevich and Liubov Popova] 1991/03/04 Culture on the Nazi Pillory The Third Reich's mocking exhibit of "degenerate" works is re-created for the first time 1991/02/18 Portrait of the Young Artist Review of the Book "A Life of Picasso" 1991/01/28 America's Vainest Museum Armand Hammer's tribute to himself raises a furor 1991/01/14 A Meteor That Didn't Burn Out The precocious Van Dyck chased the Tudor stiffness out of English painting 1990/12/03 The Great Massacre of 1990 As auction prices plunge, overhyped contemporary works are hit the hardest 1990/11/26 America's Saintly Sage A look at Albert Pinkham Ryder's myth -- and its limits 1990/11/12 Seeing the Far in the Near A Midwest show reassesses the underknown Richard Pousette-Dart 1990/10/22 Upstairs and Downstairs At MOMA A survey of the intersection of art and popular culture gets gridlocked 1990/10/15 Onward from Olmec A monumental exhibit of Mexico's art redeems the "image problem" 1990/10/01 Sculpture of the Absurd Joel Shapiro brings uncanny expressiveness to human form 1990/09/17 An Appetite for Human Character Titian found the mind's construction in the faces of his subjects 1990/08/13 Modernism's Neglected Side A first-rate London show assesses the classical revival, sympathetically but coolly 1990/07/30 A Sampler of Witless Truisms America's Jenny Holzer showers Received Ideas on the Biennale 1990/07/23 A Lyrical Colorist Rediscovered De Stael painted by "the rule that corrects the emotion" 1990/07/02 A Domain of Light and Color Morocco's impact on Matisse is traced in a radiant show 1990/06/04 Whose Art is it, Anyway? Desperate for an enemy, the radical right accuses Washington of subsidizing obscene, elitist art. The facts paint a different picture. 1990/05/28 Bumps in the Auction Boom Two great paintings go through the roof, but the floor is shaky 1990/05/07 Brilliant, But Not for Real A show surveys old and new masters of forgery 1990/04/02 A Boston Theft Reflects the Art World's Turmoil Bungling burglars get away with two masterpieces and expose the dark side of an inflated industry 1990/04/02 Rooted at Last Van Gogh's Irises, 1889, known to the trade as "the Curse of the Outback" 1990/03/26 Letting Nature Reign Resplendent A superb Monet show proves how much more than "only an eye" the painter was 1990/03/12 Zen and Perceptual Hiccups A show surveys the mysterious paintings of Robert Moskowitz 1990/02/19 The Pursuits of Pleasure Thomas Rowlandson's satirical view of Georgian society 1990/01/29 Two Centuries of Stereotypes A show at the Corcoran examines the portrayal of blacks in America 1990/01/08 Blockbusters of an Inventive Showman American master Frederic Edwin Church's spectacular 19th century landscapes were the CinemaScope of his age 1989/12/25 Mucking with Media The Whitney offers a long trek through the alien goo 1989/11/27 SOLD! It went crazy, it stays crazy, but don't ask what the art market is doing to museums and the public 1989/11/27 The Anatomy of a Deal How Alan Bond bought a $53.9 million painting [van Gogh's Irises], with more than a little help 1989/11/06 Between the Sistine, and Disney The licentious genius of Mantua's Giulio Romano 1989/10/09 Velazquez's Binding Ethic The genius of Spanish realism is seen in the U.S. 1989/10/02 The Adam and Eve of Modernism Picasso and Braque's "passionate adventure" in Cubism 1989/09/18 Paris a La Mitterrand A panoply of grandiose projects transforms the city for better and for worse 1989/08/14 Earning his Stripes Sean Scully makes something special of a simple motif 1989/08/14 A Loony Parody of Cultural Democracy 1989/06/26 Poetry in Glass and Steel A posthumous show confirms Christopher Wilmarth's stature 1989/06/12 A Love of Spontaneous Gesture The lyrical color-fields of Helen Frankenthaler are surveyed in a new show 1989/05/22 The Brio of a Great All-Rounder A drawing show brings the genius of Inigo Jones to the U.S. 1989/05/08 The Partial Comeback of a Fallen Angel After long neglect, a look at the 17th century's Guido Reni 1989/05/01 Tarted Up 'Till the Eye Cries Uncle Reviving the vulgarity of Thomas Hart Benton 1989/04/10 Canvases of Their Own Now that socialist realism has been undone, artists struggle between the desire to find a fresh vision and the lure of Western markets 1989/04/03 The N.R.A. in a Hunter's Sights 1989/04/03 Raw Talk, But Cooked Painting A show surveys innovation and tradition in 20th century Italy 1989/02/13 The Best and Worst of Warhol A show traces the banality that inspired and undid him 1989/02/06 The Embarrassing Genius Behind the Kitsch Salvador Dali wrung poetry from neurosis 1989/01/30 A Despairing Assault on Terminal Evil The raging Goya was actually a man of the Enlightenment, a masterly show argues 1989/01/23 Tracing God's Fingerprint A fascinating show brings German Romantic drawings to the fore 1989/01/09 An Abiding Passion for Reality The character of Courbet is captured in a rich new show 1988/12/26 An Escape to Renaissance Siena The Met's new show of 15th century painting is a delight 1988/12/12 The Decisive Line of a Master Richard Diebenkorn's drawings make an inspiring exhibition 1988/12/05 The Club Med of the Humanists A Washington show surveys Arcadia, as seen by painters from Giorgione to Matisse 1988/11/14 A Tortoise Obsessed with Oily Stuff Painter Leon Kossoff prevails by plying a rich tradition 1988/10/31 Evoking the Spirit Ancestors The ancient, mythic world of the Aborigines comes alive 1988/10/24 A Classicist Who Burned with Inner Fire Fort Worth offers the U.S.'s first Poussin retrospective 1988/10/17 Seeing Degas as Never Before A superb retrospective of the great French realist opens in New York City 1988/10/03 Splendor Packaged in Kitsch Los Angeles unveils a home for Japanese treasures 1988/08/01 Glimpses of an Unsexy Tortoise A new Braque show offers too little of a great thing 1988/07/25 The Venice Biennale Bounces Back Dominated by Jasper Johns, this year's event is again a prime festival of the new 1988/07/11 Heritage of Rich Imagery Hispanic art celebrates a diverse ethnic spirit 1988/06/20 Giving Success a Good Name Hockney's skill and wit create a consistent world 1988/06/20 Perils of Pablo Review of Picasso: Creator and Destroyer 1988/06/13 Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines Three impressive sculpture shows range from primal power to consumerist satire 1988/05/30 Discontents of the White Tribe Eric Fischl disturbingly paints the hidden life of suburbia 1988/05/09 Seeing Gauguin Whole at Last A masterly exhibition corrects myths and moonshine about the pioneering painter 1988/05/02 Toward a Mummified Sublime Using black glop, Donald Sultan produces gloomy elegance 1988/04/08 Fiddler on the Roof of Modernism Marc Chagall: 1887-1985 1988/01/25 Japanese with a French Accent A show traces what Nippon's painters took home from Paris 1987/12/21 Germany's Master in the Making Anselm Kiefer paints dense works that rise to greatness 1987/12/14 Sharing the Poet's Obsession A singular show explores the vision of English Romanticism 1987/12/07 Charles Demuth Amid the Silos A new show reveals that he was more than a precursor of pop 1987/11/30 Blazing Exceptions to Nature A huge London show evokes the world of medieval England 1987/11/09 Spectral Light, Anxious Dancers The disquieting visions of Susan Rothenberg 1987/11/02 The Grand Maximalist Frank Stella brings new life to abstract painting 1987/10/05 From the Dark Heart of Spain A stronger - and weaker - Zurbaran opens at the Met 1987/09/21 Corn-Pone Cubism, Red-Neck Deco Red Grooms' cartoony "ruckuses" are easy to like -- too easy 1987/08/24 Out of the Wall's Shadow MOMA surveys the rebirth of modernism in postwar Berlin 1987/08/10 How to Start a Museum Three U.S. collections go public, with mixed results 1987/07/13 Abstraction and Popeye's Biceps The sweet, rambunctious paintings of Elizabeth Murray 1987/07/06 A Plain, Exalted Vision For the young Republic in search of a style 1987/06/01 Too Much of a Medium-Good Thing in Washington Andrew Wyeth's overhyped Helga pictures 1987/05/11 Navigating a Cultural Trough For a change, the Whitney Biennial is not too bad 1987/04/27 Out of Grime, a Domain of Light Cleaning the Sistine Chapel reveals a new Michelangelo 1987/04/13 Of Vincent and Eanum Pig Spectacular sales in London and Geneva enshrine the new vulgarity 1987/04/06 Singular and Grand Britons Modernism in London 1987/03/09 A Caterer of Repetition and Glut Andy Warhol: 1928-1987 1987/02/09 Random Bits from the Image Haze At the Whitney, the "appropriations" of painter David Salle 1987/02/02 Another Temple for Modernism The Met's 20th century wing 1987/01/12 Pyramid Power in Paint The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 at the LACMA 1987/01/12 Getting on the Map New money fuels Los Angeles' museum surge 1986/12/22 Design: Back to the Lost Future A remarkable show revives the machine age, fins and all 1986/12/08 Out of a Grand Ruin, a Great Museum Paris opens a showcase of 19th century works 1986/12/01 Sanity Defense for a Genius The Metropolitan reveals Van Gogh's shocking freshness 1986/11/17 Inventing a Sensory Utopia The paintings Matisse did in Nice include some of his best 1986/11/10 A Look at a Beautiful Impasse Morris Louis' paintings embody the discourse of pure hue 1986/10/27 Tourist First Class In New York, a major show of John Singer Sargent 1986/10/13 Time Recomposed of Shards David Hockney's painterly photocollages in New York City 1986/09/15 The Sentinels of Nurture Henry Moore: 1898-1986 1986/09/01 The Liberty of Thought Itself In Paris, a big, provocative survey of modern sculpture 1986/08/11 Memories Scaled and Scrambled In New York City, a survey of James Rosenquist 1986/08/04 "Kill the Moonlight!" They Cried In Venice, a superb retrospective of the Futurists 1986/07/21 In London: A Visionary Maestro (Oskar Kokoschka) 1986/07/14 Egos, Kitsch and the Real Thing With work from 41 nations, Venice opens its biggest Biennale 1986/06/09 The Tintoretto of the Peons In Philadelphia, a long-awaited show of Diego Rivera 1986/05/26 Out of Gothic, into the Future Veit Stoss's carvings are the revelation of a Nuremberg show 1986/04/21 The Truth in the Details A rare show by the peerless realist Antonio Lopez Garcia 1986/04/14 The Rockwell of the Intelligentsia At the Whitney, Alex Katz's stylish figure paintings 1986/03/31 Mixing Grandeur and Tattiness At the Royal Academy, a retrospective of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1986/03/17 A Vision of Steely Finesse Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986 1986/02/24 Obliquely Addressing Nature In New York, Terry Winters' stimulating one-man show 1986/02/10 Energy in Black and White In Cincinnati, a retrospective of Franz Kline 1985/12/30 Fluent, Electric, Charming Jennifer Bartlett's work provides a key to '80s taste 1985/12/23 Tracing the Underground Stream In London, a major but uneven survey of German modernism 1985/11/11 Brideshead Redecorated At the National Gallery, treasures from English country houses 1985/10/28 A Rich, Feisty Eventfulness California's Wayne Thiebaud emerges as a leading U.S. realist 1985/09/09 The Urban Poet as a Scavenger Kurt Schwitters' collages receive a long-overdue retrospective 1985/07/01 Singing within the Bloody Wood At the Tate, a second celebration of Francis Bacon 1985/06/17 Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze American painters of the '80s are buffeted by cultural inflation 1985/06/03 The Trials of Tilted Arc Richard Serra's unpopular work dramatizes the plight of public sculpture 1985/05/27 Slamming a Door on Tradition Jean Dubuffet: 1901-1985 1985/05/06 Emblems of a Lost Tradition In New York City, superb drawings from the Albertina collection 1985/04/22 Symbolist with Roller Skates Francesco Clemente ranges unevenly from mystery to voyeurism 1985/03/25 Master of the Green Machine MOMA's Rousseau exhibit reveals a depth of exotic formality 1985/03/11 Master of the Gesture At the Metropolitan, Caravaggio's turbulent genius 1985/02/11 An Unfamiliar Michelangelo Vatican restorations go on 1985/01/14 Psychological Realist in a Bad Age In Los Angeles, Max Beckmann's images retain their power Robert Hughes' Writings in The New York Review of Books The New York Review of Books has 16 articles by Hughes in its online database. Access to the articles is not free; you have to register and subscribe at $4/week. 1995/02/16 Why Watch It, Anyway? 1993/10/21 The Medium Inquisitor (Clement Greenberg) 1993/03/04 Masterpiece Theater Review of Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Thomas Hoving 1992/04/23 Art, Morals, and Politics 1990/10/11 The Art of Frank Auerbach 1989/06/29 The Liberal Goya 1989/06/01 The Patron Saint of Neo-Pop (Jean Baudrillard) 1987/08/13 On Lucian Freud 1986/10/23 Something Fishy in the Hamptons Review of Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork, by Peter Matthiessen 1984/12/06 On Art and Money 1983/10/27 There's No Geist like the Zeitgeist 1982/02/18 The Rise of Andy Warhol 1980/01/24 HE WAS FRENCH 1979/12/20 Only in America (Bernard Berenson) 1978/12/21 Blue Chip Sublime |
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