Art May 2010
Medieval art at the Met & the Morgan
On “The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry” & “The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & “Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves” at the Morgan Library Musuem, New York.
The Master of Catherine of Cleves, "Mouth of Hell" from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (c. 1440), courtesy The Morgan Museum & Library |
Given the emphasis on performance and conceptual work in New York museums last season, not to mention the frenzy generated by the overlapping of the Whitney Biennial with the official and unofficial contemporary art elements of the recent art fairs, it’s easy to assume that, these days, only new-minted “cultural production” commands attention in this city. Yet art made...
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