Thomas Micchelli

Jan 7, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Valentina Di Liscia |Katherine Kelaidis |Thomas Micchelli |Gregory Volk

You’re crashing from your holiday sugar high and the warm days of spring feel light years away; January sure can feel like the gloomiest month of the year. But it doesn’t have to be! Not if we make it our New Year’s resolution to see more art. It’s also a perfect time to catch up on exhibitions that opened in the fall madness, some of which are still on view.

Dec 11, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Thomas Micchelli

Punctuation as architecture, architecture as destiny. The floor-to-ceiling gash in the entrance wall of Manet/Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art physically separates the artists’ names and self-portraits from each other, relegating them to two different worlds: Manet’s restless brushwork skittering into painting’s future; Degas’s sculpted light embracing the memory of a neoclassical past. But the compare/contrast is a head fake.

Dec 3, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Thomas Micchelli

If only we had the kinds of sources animating the relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas for the father-son team of Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. More familiarly known as Giambattista (1696–1770) and Domenico (1727–1804), they headed up a familial network of Venetian artists that included Domenico’s younger brother Lorenzo; his uncles (on his mother’s side) Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi, and a first cousin, Giacomo Guardi.

Oct 19, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Thomas Micchelli

In five compact rooms, the seemingly boundless exhibition Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915–1925 at the Neue Galerie uncoils a tale of creative crisis, psychic dislocation, and scrambling ambition bracketed within the most transformative decade of the painter’s career.

Sep 14, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Thomas Micchelli

The Italian poet, painter, polemicist, and director Pier Paolo Pasolini was born on March 5, 1922, six months before Mussolini’s March on Rome, and was murdered on November 2, 1975, three weeks before the release of his film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which enacts the Marquis de Sade’s unfinished novel in the last-gasp stronghold of Fascist Italy.