Carolyn Stewart Carolyn Stewart

The Skeletons in the Gallery

After Louis Vuitton prints an image of child predation on a luxury handbag, can we still turn a blind eye to Gauguin’s well-documented history of predation?

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Carolyn Stewart Carolyn Stewart

The Faces of Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was prematurely bald, and impressively so. In the NGA’s exhibition “Cézanne Portraits,” the post-Impressionist master has applied his trademark honesty to his own image.

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Carolyn Stewart Carolyn Stewart

You Probably Think This Art Is About You

Yayoi Kusama’s famous mirrored rooms focuse on the notion of “self-obliteration,” yet self-aggrandizement has become the defining theme of how visitors experience them.

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Thomas Culligan Thomas Culligan

Shooting the Messenger

What is it about social media that compels us to throw off the gloves? In our abandonment of civil discourse, should we shoot the messenger, the message, or the medium?

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Thomas Culligan Thomas Culligan

In Putin's Russia, Art Looks at You

Irena Nakhova’s fighter jet helmet blends satire and state-sanctioned messaging to an indecipherable degree. Is it a monument to Vladimir Putin’s ambitions, or a mockery?

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Thomas Culligan Thomas Culligan

Caillebotte, Patron Saint of the Outcasts

Gustave Caillebotte’s work provides an uncensored, rich and occasionally rough-around-the-edges view of an artist and the Impressionist movement in its formative stages.

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