Wall Street Journal

Americans in Paris Exhibition Review:
“The Lure of the City of Light”
The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2024

Exhibitions examine how artists before and after World War II found inspiration and artistic freedom in the French capital by Willard Spiegelman ‘WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS,” Bogart said to Bergman in “Casablanca” (1943). Now, two current art exhibitions explore the powerful appeal of the City of Light to generations of 20th-century Americans. At New York […]

‘Taking Shape: Abstraction From the Arab World, 1950s-1980s’ Review: A History of Flux and Formation
Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2020

Lance Esplund reviews Taking Shape for the Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2020.

Globe-Trotting to Build a Unique Collection
Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2019

Michael FitzGerald reviews Modernisms for the Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2019.

Finally at Home With the Greats
Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2019

Tom L. Freudenheim reviews Fritz Ascher: Expressionist for the Wall Street Journal.

A Lens on the Real Italy
Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2018

Enrica Viganò, an independent curator, spent nine years searching through the archives of individual photographers to assemble the 174 prints in “NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960.” There are no institutions in Italy that, like the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Ariz., hold the archives of important photographers, so Ms. Viganò sought out her subjects one by one. In fact, the point of the exhibition is to establish photography as a significant art form in a country where it has never ranked with painting, literature, music or, more recently, film.