Entertainment & Arts
This is the first of Times Art Critic William Wilson’s articles from the East Coast and Canada.
June 23, 1985
First Beatrice Wood, then Francoise Gilot, now Kate T.
Sept. 6, 1994
The legendary quality of works by Kurt Schwitters is reinforced by the fact that they are so rarely seen.
July 15, 1988
Regarding William Wilson’s Feb. 11 review of the Francis Bacon exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: I admit to snickering at a recent LACMA exhibition.
Feb. 25, 1990
The aesthetic terrain between Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell or, to bring it closer to home, George Herms and William Dole is so well populated, who’d have thought there was space for another artist in the collagist/assemblagist subdivision?
May 31, 1985
News of the sale of Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” to a New York collector is hugely disappointing for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and its audience.
June 19, 2006
Junk bonds are one thing, junk art quite another.
March 13, 2014
Speaking of the East, your correspondent is there even now splicing aesthetic vibrations to printing presses in hope of painting word pictures of the summer’s highlights.
June 9, 1985
If a New York abstractionist moved to the Mojave Desert, the resulting work might approximate that by James Hueter.
Jan. 31, 1986
Dada didn’t last long.
May 30, 1997