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Five Masters of Persian and Indian Painting: Sultan-Muhammad, Mir Sayyid 'Ali, Basawan, Payag, and the Kotar Mastert--Through March 8. Sackler Museum...
Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil L. and Angelica Rudenstine--Through Aug. 9. Sackler Musuem. Tour given Friday Feb. 28 by Jim Cuno, director of Harvard Museums. Meet in museum lobby...
Five Masters of Persian And Indian Painting: Sultan-Muhammed, Mir Sayyid Ali, Basawan, Payag And the Kotar Mastert--Through March 8. Sackler Museum. Whatever...
Johns' works from the last two decades at the Sackler continue some of those past interests: news-print as Surrealist collage in the Dutch Wives and the self-referentiality of reproducing his own earlier prints in the painting Untitled 1984. Critics have often noted Johns' latent interest in sensuous matter and conceptual paradox; those interests now reign supreme, as the older Johns contemplates the failure of the erotic, in addition to the link between sex and death (especially in the Tantric Details...
...Kooning, a generation older than Johns, seems less obsessed with irony in his waning years than he is with gesture and scale. These untitled works produces at his studio in the Hamptons are being shown for the first time at the Sackler. They reveal an increase in serenity and a shift from the erotic intensity of his early work to a poetic sense of romantic dreamscape...