Rodin at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
As my more faithful readers will know already, I’m pretty seriously into Rodin. There is a fantastic touring Rodin show that is currently being exhibited at he Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. This show…
Philadelphia Road Trip – Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Rodin Museum
I went on a 4-day road trip to Philadelphia last week, and amongst other things, saw a lot of really good art. Of course I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, my main motivation being that they have an…
Petro Wodkins vs. Robert Mugabe
The art world is a pretty exciting place but it’s not too often you hear about an artist having to flee for his life with the Zimbabwean army on his heels. I wrote about Petro Wodkins before, but to quickly recap…
Dale Chihuly – Utterly Breathtaking
I went to the Musée des Beaux-Arts (aka the Montreal Museum of Fine Art) today to see the Dale Chihuly show, Utterly Breathtaking. It was pretty impressive (breathtaking even). To be honest, the idea of going to see an exhibition…
Robert Rauschenberg – Monogram
There are few artists whose work I admire more than that of Robert Rauschenberg. Not only for his work itself, but how it pushed boundaries of how art was considered. In 1964, after Robert Rauschenberg won the Venice Biennale Grand…