• Picasso Black and White

    Picasso Black and White

    The Guggenheim Museum was the perfect place for PICASSO BLACK AND WHITE. The creamy white spiral, and the muted grey light filtered through the great central skylight, seemed made for the display of the blacks, whites and greys of the artwork itself. I am glad to have gotten to the exhibit on its final day.…

  • The Hermitage in the Prado

    The Hermitage in the Prado

    THE HERMITAGE IN THE PRADO was not an overwhelmingly memorable exhibit, but agreeable in scale and very interesting. I’m not big on gold artifacts, but looked at plenty of intricately crafted items, and some intriguing and architecturally precise paintings of the Hermitage itself. There’s a good modernist selection. I especially liked seeing a female “Absinthe…