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...Picasso was the first source. In the central panel of one of Bacon's great works from the 1970s, Triptych - In Memory of George Dyer, a shadowy man stands near the landing of a darkened stairwell, turning a tiny key in a lock. That key is surely borrowed from an odd creature doing the same in several of Picasso's seaside pictures from the late 1920s, when he was flirting with Surrealism. Those elastic Picassos, with their biomorphic figures that are part human, part dirigible, part swollen breast or phallus, turned a key in Bacon. They showed...
...rushed onto the field and stole Handsome Dan, the ugly bulldog of a mascot for Eli’s bunch of nitwits and smelly people. He ran and ran and took that Dan all the way up to the top of the Stand(s). It was Picasso at his finest hour, Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, and Marky Mark in “The Departed.” But he would have been nothing without preparation. He analyzed where the cops were, when was the appropriate time to fly, and when the bell tolled, it tolled...
...Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator),” a machine made out of aluminum, steel, and other materials, manifests the geometric, industrial quality of Sheeler’s painting in real space. The exhibit makes connections that are more explicit and traditional, such as the juxtaposition of the Picasso and the Braque on the first floor, as well as those that are far more surprising. There are too many great works to talk about in one room, let alone three floors. There’s the Byzantine stone and glass mosaic on the fourth floor that recalls the short, bright...
...Banksy has indeed been identified, Williams doesn't think it will puncture Banksy's ballooning sales figures. But Jeffrey Deitch, an art dealer with close ties to legendary graffiti artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, asks, "When you can buy a superb Picasso drawing for $500,000 and a work dashed off by Banksy for the same price, does that make sense to you?" Still, Deitch, who says he likes a lot of Banksy's work, adds, "I don't think it will have any effect on his output. He's established the brand...
...Modern Art in New York City: 291 paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, put together by art historian Carolyn Lanchner. Miro got his first retrospective, at MOMA, more than half a century ago, and now he is getting the treatment reserved for the heaviest guns of 20th century art: Picasso in 1980, Matisse last year. If the show doesn't carry you along to the very last picture with its current of narrative expectation, as Matisse's did, it's hardly an occasion for blame. Miro was a marvelous artist -- some of the time. But he was also a painter with...