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...display—that has brought the most buzz to the show.But to the show’s credit, the debate over the painting series doesn’t upstage the exposition of the artists’ hitherto unexplored relationship.CATALOGING CONTROVERSYCurated by Ellen Landau in collaboration with Claude Cernuschi, “Pollock Matters” is the first exhibition to display the paintings discovered in 2002 by Alex Matter, son of Herbert and Mercedes, and attributed to Pollock.The show leaves the puzzle unfinished—the exhibition and its impressive, engaging companion catalogue don’t provide...
...Enrico Cernuschi was a man of passion. Born in Milan in 1821, he was such a fiery supporter of Italian independence from Austrian rule that he was forced to flee to Paris in 1850. There he Frenchified his first name to Henri and channeled his energy toward more lucrative pursuits, helping to found the Banque de Paris. In 1871, appalled by the turmoil of the Paris Commune, a workers' revolution, he took himself and the young art critic Theodore Duret on a world tour, during which he focused on collecting Asian art. Voraciously acquisitive, he was as likely...
...valued. Xi'an, the Tang capital, was a prosperous, cosmopolitan city, as a small sculpture of an African entertainer demonstrates. This openness extended to women, too: an enchanting group of eight confident-looking young female musicians on horseback attests to their near-equal status with men.The renovation gives the Cernuschi more exhibition space, a new seminar room, improved lighting, state-of-the art display cases and other requisites of a modern museum. Yet elegant details of the 19th century mansion remain: oak parquet floors, decorative ceiling moldings and the original majestic staircase that leads to an upper-floor gallery decorated...
...heads; a bronze mask, perhaps from the important Sanxingdui find; and Tang ceramics-were still without identification labels. And the collection itself is uneven, though the true masterpieces are carefully set apart from the more mundane offerings. Still, it is tempting to go through the museum wondering what Cernuschi and the curators who followed him could-or should-have bought. Calligraphy from the Han dynasty? Silver and gold ornaments from the Tang dynasty...
...neither Cernuschi the man nor Cernuschi the museum intended to present an exhaustive collection of Asian art. Instead, in a quiet residential quarter of Paris, the museum offers, as curator Gilles Bèguin eloquently puts it, an "aesthetic promenade," a kind of random walk through the earliest periods of Chinese art. And that is exactly what makes the Musèe Cernuschi unique among museums of Asia. Just what Enrico, or rather Henri, would have wanted...