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• December 17, 2010
  Indiana Jones and the Malvagna Triptych and Joe Coleman’s “Auto-Portrait”

  OMNP reflects on the numinous power of the Northern Renaissance in a show of Jan Gossart at the Met, and its decscendence in the work of painter Joe Coleman.

• December 6, 2010
  A Sunday with Peter Greenaway and William Blake

  William Blake, Peter Greenaway, and the greatness of the Renaissance came together in a train of thought over Greenaway’s “Last Supper” installation at the Armory.

• December 2, 2010
  Old Masters for the Art Basel set

  OMNP takes a look at what’s new on the Old Masters market in NYC this Fall, with works by Poussin, John Currin, and Frans Francken II among others.

• June 24, 2010
  Sarah G. Austin’s intimate reflections on Old Masters

  Old Masters + New Perspectives’ Sarah Baumann takes a look at Sarah G. Austin’s interpretations of masterpieces by Ingres, Titian, and Holbein among others.

• February 18, 2010
  Putting Art in its Place: Recent Observations from “David Klamen: Painting Paintings” at the Richard Gray Gallery

  BY TAYLOR HOBSON
  David Klamen repaints a variety of masterpieces that spans centuries, from works by Old Masters like Francisco de Zurbarán to Impressionists and Modernists like Claude Monet and Clifford Styll. While Klamen may choose from a wide range, he appropriates upon each piece within a similar visual framework. The original piece is depicted at [...]

• February 12, 2010
  Eve Sussman and the Classic Moment

  BY MEGHAN MCGAVIN
  What does a reenactment or appropriation of an Old Master painting do to the original? Does it dilute it or give it an updated context? In some instances, certain themes have retained their relevance. An updated version of a classical nude or still-life would seem completely contemporary to [...]

• January 6, 2010
  Looking Forward through the Past: The Dual Nature of Jeff Wall’s Illuminated Photographs

  BY TAYLOR HOBSON
  In a post-modern age in which art of appropriation can seem bogged down by its own complacence in referencing the past, Jeff Wall’s scenes have the ability to make sometimes overt quotations from art history without sacrificing any sense of the artworks’ novelty or innovation.  Not all of his compositions directly reference the [...]

• December 16, 2009
  The photographs of Idris Khan: a reintroduction to Leonardo, Caravaggio and Turner

  BY MEGHAN  MCGAVIN

  Idris Khan (British, b. 1978), an artist working primarily in the photographic medium, introduces us to a new dimension of work in the practice of appropriation with his carefully superimposed photographs. While peeling back each gossamer layer of his  works, short stories about the original object, or artist, reveal themselves. Far from a [...]

• November 6, 2009
  The charming references of Anne Connell

  OMNP has been bubbling recently over the paintings of Anne Connell.

• September 27, 2009
  Hannah Barrett, “The New Speaks to the Old: Contemporary Art at the Gardner Museum, Boston”

  The contemporary program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is living proof of the timelessness of art and of the electricity that runs between old and new art.