What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
Thomas Micchelli
Thomas Micchelli is an artist and writer.
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A Tantalizing Glimpse Into a Renaissance Art Family Drama
Works by Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Domenico offer hints of whatever subterranean Oedipal struggles played out between them.
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Max Beckmann’s Singular Path
His attitude toward his fellow humans ricocheted between admiration and affection, frustration, fury, and horror — at times all in a single painting.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Marxist Criticism of Painting
Pasolini’s consideration of art included essays, reviews, poems, and autobiographical meditations.
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Artworks as Portent and Balm
Two exhibitions by Patricia Satterlee have bookended the plague year.
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SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic of Michelangelo
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret.
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Trump’s Last Act
The most incandescent of invectives now feel like simple statements of fact.
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The Year Without Art, 2020
Every individual loss carries the resonance of collective loss, the ripple of disappearance.
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The Bioweapons of Culture War
The hope now is not for this to end well, but simply for it to end.
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Raging in the Pandemic’s Grip
Sanja Latinović’s “Abandoned” pierces our self-protective veil with a glimpse of COVID’s raw truth.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2019
MoMA’s recognition of modernism’s multiverse, alongside artist-led drives for greater transparency on the part of museums and their boards, brought a twinge of optimism to the close of the year.
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Marino Marini’s Scarred Monumentality
Marini’s membership in the Fascist Party is something that will cling to him, despite his self-exile to Switzerland and the anti-imperialist tone of his postwar work.
