May 13, 2008
Glenn McNatt
Art
Elegant equines
April 9, 2008
Not for nothing were the horses painted by Franklin B. Voss called noble steeds. They were magnificent animals, well-muscled, fast, sleek as racecars and groomed to a fare-thee-well. Even when the horses are standing still, you sense speed is in their blood.
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High and low marks for MICA students' works
April 2, 2008
To those who insist the exhibition installed in Mount Vernon Place by students at the Maryland Institute College of Art is not really art, I can only say that all art is about ideas, particularly the art of today.
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Reflections of revolt: Color Field painters forever
March 5, 2008
In an era of profound upheaval, the Color Field painters of the 1960s - artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and others - remained oddly detached from the great issues of their day.
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Hard truths of monuments' resilience
February 27, 2008
The Austrian writer Robert Musil remarked that "there is nothing in the world so invisible as a monument." It's apt that this line appears at the entrance to the Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition Front Room: Notes on Monumentality, which opens today.
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The real world reflected back at us
February 20, 2008
From the Renaissance to the mid-19th century, painting evolved to mimic the appearance of things in the real world ever more convincingly. But Modernism dispensed with the requirement of imitating nature and treated paintings as objects of pure contemplation.
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Photos capture strength of memorable black leaders
February 13, 2008
If you're thinking profiles in courage, the only face you might expect to see but won't in the National Portrait Gallery's lovely homage to black men and women is the tall, skinny guy who got famous just several months ago.
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Picturing the dark side
February 6, 2008
After seeing Violence and Tranquility, Tony Shore's unexpectedly dark vision of his hometown at C. Grimaldis Gallery, I couldn't help thinking the prize-winning Baltimore painter has been watching The Wire, HBO's award-winning dark drama about crime and corruption in Baltimore.
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