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...Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. As it turns out, for a good deal of modern and contemporary art, Libeskind's careening lines provide a perfect force field, a reminder of the dynamic rethinking of space that was behind so much of modern art to begin with. Naturally, Cubist work looks right at home here. Likewise the angular channels of Frank Stella's shaped canvases. Even Donald Judd's no-nonsense boxes look better with something to play against...
...Museum of Fine Arts, abandoned the familiar natural beauty of Adirondack ponds and the glory of Venice but pursued the realist tradition with stark but tender scenes inspired by daily life. Demuth—with his trademark sparse but concentrated application of color—turned to a cubist-influenced realism, as is evident in his entrancing “Fruit and Sunflowers?...
...morality. He has aged, and in some ways he has mellowed, but he has not gone soft. He's 68, a time when many artists are repeating themselves or fading into the margins. But Hockney has always managed to take his art down enough new paths--double portraits, photocollages, Cubist landscapes--to keep himself, if not always cutting edge, then at least fresh and relevant. He's in the small club of living artists whose work has fetched more than $2 million at auction ($2,869,500 in 2002 for his 1966 Portrait of Nick Wilder). His devotion to representational...
Dustin S. Hodges: Empty beef jerky bag: “the faux wood pattern was a nice cubist move...
...more creative as he ages. This year's masterwork is the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The smallish museum concentrates on 20th century American art, and the exterior can be seen as a tough, gleefully manic (that is, American) work of Cubist sculpture or as a giant brushed-stainless-steel popcorn kernel, or as a wizard's castle in some 23rd century fairy tale. Inside, where huge skylights bathe the galleries in sunlight, the feeling is serene but never static...