Underbelly

We popped over to the Neue Gallerie today to take in the new show on "Degenerate Art" under the Nazis--which was not the best eve...

We were playing an amiable conversation game around the TG dinner table last night when I faced the question: is there something that you h...

sS We beguiled the time yesterday puzzling over El Greco's Burial of Count Orgaz in the San We beguiled the time yesterday puzzling ...

I checked in at the Prado in Madrid today for the first time in 17 years and found myself spending more time than I might have expected in ...

Perhaps nothing. But we have relearned a lesson easy to forget: that insurgents are almost always children of the comfortable middle class,...

Holy Saturday seems to be a good time to salute the work of Pasquale Chiesa- -"Easter Church," credited as the painter of two res...

We took in the  new Piero della Francesca show at the Frick in New York last week and it came home to me for the first time what people me...

Young man, wrangling wiggly infant at the Metropolitan Museum: --She always gets excited when she sees men in loinclothes. Proper adult ...

Here's a quicky on a special exhibit at the Metropolitan in New York. The subject of the show is birds, paintings thereof. The takewa...

I know it is vain foolishness to name a "favorite artist," but I suppose if pressed I would have to name Caravaggio.   I suppose ...

 A couple of weeks back I got all kvetchy with some guy who seemed to be ordering me to pay attention to a work of art. Maybe I overdid ...

Trying to stay out of the rain in San Francisco yesterday, we popped into the MOMA for the Jasper Johns show.  And here on the wall is a cu...

Who said of the Folies Bergère girls--"ah zair faces are so sad, mais zair bottoms are so 'appi!" It's the Paris we dream...

... or so it was last Friday morning.  We had a few hours to kill; it was misty and chilly and we didn't want to go far.  But we fou...

Just noticed something intriguing about my favorite painting .  We call it "The Calling of Saint Matthew."  I only now realized ...

Mr. and Mrs. Buce took in the Richard Serra show at the San Francisco MOMA today and it stimulated some thought on the past and present of ...

We took in the Gabriel Metsu show at the National Gallery today.  Gabriel who?  Oh, you   know.  Metsu .  The great contemporary of Vermeer...

We spent a happy hour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this afternoon in the company of  Cézanne's Card Players .  It's...

We took in the post-impressionist show at the de Young in San Francisco today.  Lots of world-class stuff, no doubt about it, although it w...

Mrs. Buce is not at all impressed that the Met has recommissioned a long-languishing portrait of Philip IV as "really" a Velzaquez...