To Muse – The Importance of the Permanent Collection

I was once enthralled with the big traveling museum super exhibit, where an exhibition turns the curator into the star artist. What I and many other people have noticed over the last ten years is that these exhibits have gotten weak, with titles like  “Rembrandt Examined” consisting of two...

Alice Neel at MFAH

There is a ton of information in Neel’s portraits and I find it easy to identify with her subjects. For those of us who are traveling to Houston Texas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will have an exhibit of Neel’s work as part of their “An American Season” series,  until  June 13,...

Cartier-Bresson at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art, NYC has gathered over 300 photographs for a retrospective of photojournalist Henri Cartier- Bresson (1908-2004) – “…one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the...

At MOMA“Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century”

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs are both factual and interpretive. They are not trying to sell me on anything other than “this is how it is, this is what I saw and you add, if you must, your own story line”. The New York Museum of Modern Art begins today with a retrospective of his...

Bobby Kennedy – 1968

In a past issue of “Vanity Fair” magazine, there was a feature about Bobby Kennedy called “The Last Good Campaign”. It is a meld of a collection of pictures from “A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the 60’s”, by Life Magazine photographer Bill Eppridge and text from a book that covers some of the...