2010 in review: Christopher Knight on art

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'Luc Tuymans,' San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.'Andrew Lord: Selected Works from 1990 to 2010,' Santa Monica Museum of Art.'Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective,' Museum of Contemporary Art.'John Baldessari: Pure Beauty,' Los Angeles County Museum of Art.'Steve Roden: In Between, a 20-Year Survey,' Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena.'Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico,' Los Angeles County Museum of Art.'Siqueiros: Landscape Painter,' Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.'Collection Applied Design: A Kim MacConnel Retrospective,' Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.'Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500,' J. Paul Getty Museum, Brentwood.

Tuymans' paintings demonstrate an uncanny capacity for using paint to identify a photograph's fragmentary context. Like his Antwerp predecessor Peter Paul Rubens, he casts a sharp eye on political preening and power.

'Luc Tuymans,' San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

( Luc Tuymans )

Tuymans' paintings demonstrate an uncanny capacity for using paint to identify a photograph's fragmentary context. Like his Antwerp predecessor Peter Paul Rubens, he casts a sharp eye on political preening and power.

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