Today on Modern Art Notes: After a two-year renovation, the National Gallery of Art has re-installed its (mostly) 19th-century French galleries. Click here to find out how the spaces look, what works — and what doesn’t.
Image: Edouard Manet, The Railway, 1873. Collection of The National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Today on Modern Art Notes: I review “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The exhibition was co-organized by the Orange County Museum of Art.
I rave about the show and find that it confirms that Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park paintings are the apex of 20th-century abstract painting.
Image: Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #54, 1972. Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. SFMOMA has three Ocean Park paintings, the most of any art museum.
