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Culturekiosque: Art and Archaeology Exhibitions

Important art and archaeology exhibitions reviewed.

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Can't Take My Eyes off Me: Cindy Sherman at Moma

Alan Behr on the Cindy Sherman retrospective in New York and the trend of staged photography in contemporary art.
10 Apr 2012

Cézanne and Paris

Last chance to see whether this show of 80 paintings, drawings and watercolours makes a case for Cézanne's relationship with the French capital.
17 Feb 2012

Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

Andrew Jack on London's blockbuster show of the deepling alluring but often puzzling masterpieces by the Italian scientific visionary and artistic genius.
13 Jan 2012

Cecil Beaton: The Artful Dodger Takes Manhattan

Alan Behr takes a closer look at the Cecil Beaton exhibition in New York and its companion book 'Cecil Beaton: The New York Years'.
23 Dec 2011

The Steins: Patrons of the Parisian Avant-Garde

How an American expatriate family's early patronage of Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso and other artists of their day brought about a new standard of taste for modern art.
16 Dec 2011

Jan Fabre: The Years of The Hour Blue

Known for his provocative theatre and dance works, where nakedness, crude sex and violence have become his trademarks, the Belgian Jan Fabre is also a sculptor, designer and illustrator whose creations have been shown in Venice, Berlin, Budapest and Sao Paulo.

Yasmina Chatila: Egypt Spring...on Manhattan's Upper East Side

Americans needn't travel to Cairo for an Egyptian revolution. They can witness one, in of all places, New York's Upper East Side.

Review: Manet, the Man who Invented Modernity

Patricia Boccadoro on the Manet exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

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A Bright Light En Bref: Basquiat at the Fondation Beyeler

Is the short, hot career and early death of Jean-Michel Basquiat the cause of his celebrity, or is it a diversion making the assessment of his work cliché-driven and shallow? The Fondation Beyeler wades into the debate.

Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965 - 2000 and MEDI(t)Ations on view at The New Museum of Contemporary Art

Piper played a formative role in the emergence of Conceptual art, and an even more crucial role in identity-based art in the 1980s and 1990s, focused on bigotry, stereotyping, and xenophobia. The New Museum of Contemporary Art offers a retrospective on her work in several media.

African Masks: Magical Faces of Africa-- image gallery

Virtual Gallery accompanying the exhibition review of 'Magical Faces of Africa' at the Musee Dapper. Includes a dozen pictures of authentic African masks from the exhibition, each with descriptions and historical background.
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