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Eric Gibson

Eric Gibson is the Leisure & Arts Features Editor of The Wall Street Journal.

Articles

Bernini's feats of clay (Features) , December 2012, 36
On “Bernini: Sculpting in Clay,” at the Met.

Richard Serra's illusions (Art) , May 2012, 67
On "Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

What a mentor (Features) , May 2012, 25
From "Remembering Hilton Kramer."

Henry Moore revisited (Art) , December 2010, 44
On “Henry Moore," originally on view at Tate Britain currently on view at Art Gallery of Ontario, in reduced form and retitled as “The Shape of Anxiety: Henry Moore in the 1930s.”

Bright-eyed British modern (Features) , December 2009, 18
On “Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill,” at the Royal Academy.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens & the American monument (Art) , October 2009, 42
On “Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

Bernini & Houdon (Features) , December 2008, 21
On "Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture" & "Houdon at the Louvre."

Moore & Giacometti (Features) , December 2007, 19
On the relationship between sculptors Henry Moore & Alberto Giacometti.

Epics in miniature (Art) , December 2006, 42
On the Mesopotamian cylinder seals from the permanent collection, on view at the Morgan Library.

The real Rodin (Features) , December 2005, 48
What makes a "real" Rodin?

Exhibition Notes (Art) , December 2004, 47
On “The Art of Romare Bearden” at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , December 2003, 70
Eric Gibson on “Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment,” at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The writings of Henry Moore (Features) , December 2002, 41

Exhibition note (Art) , November 1994, 44
On Cy Twombly: A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note (Art) , September 1994, 56
On Sense & Sensibility: Women Artists & Minimalism in the ’90s at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Exhibition note (Art) , June 1994, 42
On American Impressionism & Realism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibition note (Art) , May 1994, 53
On Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944–1994” at the Whitney.

Exhibition note (Art) , April 1994, 42
On “Robert Morris: The Mind/Body Problem” at the Guggenheim Museum.

Exhibition note (Art) , March 1994, 41
On Howard Hodgkin: Recent Paintings at Knoedler & Co.

Lives of the artists (Books) , January 1994, 69
A review of Elaine & Bill by Lee Hall & Mark Rothko by James E.B. Breslin.

Exhibition note (Art) , September 1993, 65
On Jean Dubuffet, 1943-1963 at the Hirshorn Museum.

Exhibition note (Art) , May 1993, 43
On Picasso & the Age of Iron at the Guggenheim Museum.

Exhibition note (Art) , April 1993, 55
On Susan Rothenberg at the Hirshhorn Museum.

Exhibition note (Art) , January 1993, 51
On Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950 at the Dayton Art Institute.

Remaking Bearden (Art) , November 1991, 62

Fool’s gold: Sigmar Polke & the alchemy of critics (Art) , June 1991, 48

Becoming Brancusi (Art) , February 1991, 58
On Brancusi: Masterpieces from Romanian Museums at the Gagosian Gallery.

Jennifer Bartlett and the crisis of public art (Art) , September 1990, 62

Robert Moskowitz at MOMA (Art) , June 1990, 68

Minimalism revisted (Books) , February 1990, 64
A review of Minimalism by Kenneth Baker & Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism & the 1960s by Maurice Berger.

“Art of the Western World” on PBS (Television) , December 1989, 61

Looking at Warhol (Art) , May 1989, 59

Donald Judd: the end of sculpture (Art) , April 1989, 53

The “Mephistopheles” of sculpture: Medardo Rosso today (Art) , February 1989, 49

Between two worlds: the art of David Bomberg (Art) , December 1988, 49

In search of Camille Claudel (Art) , November 1988, 54

Bryan Hunt at Cornell (Art) , October 1988, 63

The other Rothko scandal (Notebook) , October 1988, 85
On Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals.

William Tucker’s American decade (Art) , September 1988, 45

More than meets the eye (Books) , June 1988, 83
A review of Manets Contemplation at the Gare St. Lazare by Harry Rand.

The Met Portfolio Tours (Letters) , May 1988, 86

Nadelman’s world (Art) , January 1988, 56

Life of the artist (Books) , December 1987, 81
A review of The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud.

Talk shows at the Met (Notebook) , November 1987

Ann Beattie, art critic (Books) , October 1987, 74
A review of Alex Katz by Ann Beattie.

Was Minimalist art a political movement? (Art) , May 1987, 59

Homer and Sargent: Yankee honesty vs. cosmopolitan flair (Art) , February 1987, 58

The Cones of Baltimore (Art) , October 1986, 59
On the biography Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta by Brenda Richardson.

Naum Gabo at the Guggenheim (Features) , June 1986, 34

Josef Albers: in the engine room of modern art (Features) , April 1986, 34

Two sculptors (Art) , January 1986, 57
On Donald Lipski and William Tucker.

David Park and the figure (Art) , December 1985, 64

Dim “horizons” at the Guggenheim (Art) , November 1985, 62
On New Horizons in American Art.

Di Suvero and constructivism (Art) , September 1985, 55

Expressionisms (Art) , June 1985, 66
On the recent Francesco Clemente exhibition.

Thinking about the Seventies (Art) , May 1985, 45

The real Robert Morris? (Art) , March 1985, 55

The Borofsky spectacle (Art) , February 1985, 70

The minimal and the magical (Art) , January 1985, 42
On the work of Joel Shapiro and Romare Bearden.

Brice Marden’s abstraction (Art) , December 1984, 62

The art of George McNeil (Art) , November 1984, 57

American still life (Art) , October 1984, 70

An Australian accent? (Art) , September 1984, 60
On new Australian painters at P.S. 1.

Spring exhibitions (Art) , June 1984, 69
A New York gallery round-up.

The “triumph” of Mark Tansey (Art) , May 1984, 69