Word: picassos
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...exhibition that will bring hundreds of thousands of people to a place with no hot restaurant and no cabs. At a time when the museum blockbuster is threatened by high insurance rates and topic fatigue--there are Monet haystacks I see more often than I see my mother--"Matisse Picasso," which comes to the U.S. after hugely successful runs at the Tate Modern in London and the Grand Palais in Paris, is proof that the blockbuster can still be a public service, not to mention a supreme pleasure. It's only February, but it's safe to say that this...
...fashionable ennui, Mountstuart makes for good company. A pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky fun with celebrity cameos: Picasso appears as a manic Left Bank chatterbox, Virginia Woolf as a venomous cocktail-party boor, and in what amounts to literary incest, Mountstuart indulges in a brief snog with Waugh himself...
...modern age. Though ostensibly located in London, visually Mattotti has moved the action to Weimar Berlin. Filled with grotesque faces and crippled veterans, Mattotti evokes the world depicted by such "degenerate" German artists as George Grosz and Otto Dix. Other scenes take on the fractured look of Braque and Picasso's cubist work. His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form. Using an ochre-colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen...
With varying degrees of success, photographers and filmmakers have sniffed for clues about the nature of the creative process by trying to catch painters in the act of making art. For his 1950 documentary, Visit to Picasso, Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts asked the Spanish master to apply his magical brushstrokes to large glass plates as Haesaerts filmed from the other side. Around the same time, Hans Namuth was photographing Jackson Pollock from all angles as the American artist dripped, splashed and poured paint onto canvas. Fifteen years later, Milan photographer Ugo Mulas had something similar in mind when he asked...
...Munch Museet Just a fraction of its 23,000-piece collection of Edvard Munch works is on show at any one time. Also on until Jan. 19: works by Picasso, Braque, Léger and Gris on loan from Stockholm's Moderna Museet. Tøyengata...