online archive
4:00PM
DEC 11 2007
Old masters and young geniuses
The first chapter from Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity by David W. Galenson. From Humanities, teaching Rembrandt: Why introduce children to masterpieces? A review of Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England by Michael Alexander. More on Peter Gay's Modernism: The Lure of Heresy. Edward Hopper's subjects are looking for something that may have passed them by — is that what we look for in Hopper? asks Michael Dirda. A review of Edward Burra: 20th-Century Eye by Jane Stevenson. A look at how Chinese artists are the new stars of international auctions and there's a bull market for their work. An obituary for shock art: Fake bomb didn't bring down the Royal Ontario Museum, but it did mark the passing of an artistic era — fact is, there's little left that can rouse us from our comfortable numbness. From Mute, a review of Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond.
