Hilton Kramer
Articles by Hilton Kramer
Cuban Tomás Sánchez: In His Epic Paintings, Meticulous Metaphysics
An epic vision: Tom
It’s not often that an experienced critic finds himself confronting the work of an “unkn read more »
Cuban Tomás Sánchez: In His Epic Paintings, Meticulous Metaphysics
It’s not often that an experienced critic finds himself confronting the work of an “unknown” p read more »
Cuban Tomás Sánchez: In His Epic Paintings, Meticulous Metaphysics
An epic vision: Tom
It’s not often that an experienced critic finds himself confronting the work of an “unkn read more »
Cuban Tomás Sánchez: In His Epic Paintings, Meticulous Metaphysics
It’s not often that an experienced critic finds himself confronting the work of an “unknown” p read more »
Painter Bluemner Defeated By History And Styles of Times
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There are artists who, despite their abundant gifts, seem destined to endure a melancholy fate, and read more »
Painter Bluemner Defeated By History And Styles of Times
There are artists who, despite their abundant gifts, seem destined to endure a melancholy fate, and read more »
Charles Burchfield: In Macabre Painting, Dark Introspection
Private Collection, Courtesy DC Moore Gallery
The hand of a master: Charles Burchfield
The American painter Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), whose work is the subject of a splendid exhibit read more »
Charles Burchfield: In Macabre Painting, Dark Introspection
The American painter Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), whose work is the subject of a splendid exhibit read more »
Nicolas Carone Shows He’s Still Unsurpassed On the Female Nude
Courtesy Lohin Geduld Gallery
Charged with an expressive intensity: Nicolas Carone
It was not to be expected that a great many people in the New York art world would recognize the nam read more »
Nicolas Carone Shows He's Still Unsurpassed On the Female Nude
It was not to be expected that a great many people in the New York art world would recognize the nam read more »
Nicolas Carone Shows He’s Still Unsurpassed On the Nude Female
Courtesy Lohin Geduld Gallery
Charged with an expressive intensity: Nicolas Carone
It was not to be expected that a great many people in the New York art world would recognize the nam read more »
Nicolas Carone Shows He's Still Unsurpassed On the Nude Female
It was not to be expected that a great many people in the New York art world would recognize the nam read more »
Painter Pousette-Dart, An Enchanting Mystic, Merged Seen, Unseen
Courtesy of the Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart
Richard Pousette-Dart in his studio in Suffern, N.Y., in the late 1960
The American painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992), whose very large late paintings are the subj read more »
Painter Pousette-Dart, An Enchanting Mystic, Merged Seen, Unseen
The American painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992), whose very large late paintings are the subj read more »
Fra Angelico Elicits Astonishing Piety At Met Exhibition
Allan Macintyre, HUAM
Evidence of a spiritual vocation: Fra Angelico
The modern mind doesn’t easily accommodate itself to the idea that the art of painting may som read more »
Fra Angelico Elicits Astonishing Piety At Met Exhibition
The modern mind doesn’t easily accommodate itself to the idea that the art of painting may sometim read more »
Painter Hans Memling: Superhuman Style In Exhibition at Frick
Courtesy of the Frick Collection
Almost superhuman perfection: Hans Memling
The Flemish painter Hans Memling (circa 1435-1494) is primarily remembered today for his meticulousl read more »
Caution to Viewers: Murray's Paintings May Induce Vertigo
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the read more »
Caution to Viewers: Murray’s Paintings May Induce Vertigo
Dallas Museum of Art,
Herky-jerky flailing: Elizabeth Murray
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the read more »
Van Gogh’s Drawings: A Precise Draftsman, Emotional Cauldron
Courtesy of Vincent van Gogh Foundation
A faithful depiction of the observed subject: Vincent van Gogh
Fame hasn’t always been kind to the reputation of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), whose drawings read more »
Van Gogh's Drawings: A Precise Draftsman, Emotional Cauldron
Fame hasn’t always been kind to the reputation of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), whose drawings are read more »
Guggenheim’s Russia! Show Gets Fascinating After Five Centuries
A frank depiction of everyday Russian life: Ilya Repin
As its exclamatory title announces straightaway, the exhibition called Russia! read more »
Guggenheim's Russia! Show Gets Fascinating After Five Centuries
As its exclamatory title announces straightaway, the exhibition called Russia! read more »
Painter Jules Olitski Transported His Viewers To Virtual Outer Space
It was the 19th-century British critic William Hazlitt who shrewdly observed that writers “who lac read more »
Painter Jules Olitski Transported His Viewers To Virtual Outer Space
Courtesy of Knoedler & Company
Storms of color: Jules Olitski
It was the 19th-century British critic William Hazlitt who shrewdly observed that writers “who read more »
Painter Jules Olitski Transported His Viewers To Virtual Outer Space
It was the 19th-century British critic William Hazlitt who shrewdly observed that writers “who lac read more »
Painter Joan Snyder Takes On the Big Boys: Pollock, de Kooning
Courtesy of the Jewish Museum
Shocking, graphic, memorable: Joan Snyder
What, for other artists, might be considered excess—excess energy, excess emotion, excess ambi read more »
Painter Joan Snyder Takes On the Big Boys: Pollock, de Kooning
What, for other artists, might be considered excess—excess energy, excess emotion, excess ambition read more »
No Direction Known: Exhibit at Whitney Missing a Landscape
Whitney Museum of American Art
More like a mammoth necklace: Fred Tomaselli
It was not to be expected that an exhibition called Landscape at the Whitney Museum of American Art read more »
Loner, Misfit Degas: Lover of Bathers Was Never Impressionist
Allan Macintyre, HUAM,
One of Harvard
The French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was in some respects the most misunderstood artist of his read more »
Loner, Misfit Degas: Lover of Bathers Was Never Impressionist
The French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was in some respects the most misunderstood artist of his read more »
Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War
Courtesy of Neue Galerie New York
Not a pretty picture: Otto Dix's Skull, 1924.
Given the horrific history of Germany in the modern era, it was not to be expected that German art f read more »
Backing Jean Hélion: Why Did Roberta Smith Attack the Painter?
It had not been my intention to return to the subject of the Jean Hélion exhibition at the National read more »
Backing Jean Hélion: Why Did Roberta Smith Attack the Painter?
Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery, New York
The ordinary affairs of civilian life: Jean H
It had not been my intention to return to the subject of the Jean Hélion exhibition at the Na read more »
Cézanne, Pissarro: Two Painters Drew From Other's Work
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To fully understand the exhibition called Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 18 read more »
Cézanne, Pissarro: Two Painters Drew From Other's Work
To fully understand the exhibition called Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865-188 read more »
Schmattes of Matisse: Painter Was Obsessed With Textile Design
It’s odd now to recall a time when the word “decorative,” as applied to the paintings of Matis read more »
Schmattes of Matisse: Painter Was Obsessed With Textile Design
At once pleasing and aesthetically profound: Henri Matisse's Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Background, 1926.
It’s odd now to recall a time when the word “decorative,” as applied to the painti read more »
Jean Hélion's Curves Continue to Impress; So Do His Figures
The French painter Jean Hélion (1904-1987), whose work is the focus of a compelling exhibition at t read more »
Jean Hélion's Curves Continue to Impress; So Do His Figures
Courtesy of the National Academy
Not quite the end of modernism: Jean H
The French painter Jean Hélion (1904-1987), whose work is the focus of a compelling exhibitio read more »
Two Wonderful Shows: Painter Alex Katz Having Big Summer
For the American painter Alex Katz (born 1927), this has been a remarkable summer. read more »
Two Wonderful Shows: Painter Alex Katz Having Big Summer
Farnsworth Art Museum
Big plein-air ambitions: Alex Katz's Walking on the Beach, 2002
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the American painter Alex Katz (born 1927), this has been a remarkable summer.
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At 180th Exhibition, Academy Asks Disegno And Gets Big Muddle
Courtesy of Salander-O
An exception to the rule: Paul Resika
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At 180th Exhibition, Academy Asks Disegno And Gets Big Muddle
Artists tend not to be very obedient about following rules, even when the rules are established by t read more »
Painter Megan Olson Has Double Vision: Abstract and Realist
The American painter Megan Olson (born 1971) calls the current exhibition of her paintings Still Mov read more »
Guggenheim Wouldn't Be Museum If Not For Hilla Rebay
For anyone with a serious interest in modernist painting and its role in shaping the course of 20th- read more »
Sculptor di Suvero: His Eight-Foot Work Is Now Steel Drawing
Just under half a century has passed since the young Mark di Suvero (born 1933) made his debut with read more »
Nelligan and Bileck: Charcoal Contours And Nature in Decay
Some years ago, I began hearing about the drawings of the American artist Emily Nelligan, and it was read more »
Realist Richard Baker Confers His Anxiety On Tulips, Lemons
There are times when objects in a realist painting seem to abandon their identity and become somethi read more »
William Tucker Work Alludes to Degas, But It Won't Dance
Few professionals in the art world, whether they're artists, critics, historians or museum curators, read more »
