Svetlana Alpers, Alex Bacon and Ken Johnson were David Cohen’s guests

Moderated by David Cohen at Brooklyn Public Library

Svetlana Alpers, David Rosand and Robert Storr with David Cohen

2010 Whitney Biennial

Silvia Bächli at Peter Freeman, Inc., Michal Rovner at PaceWildenstein, Catherine Sullivan at Metro Pictures, Jeff Wall at Marian Goodman Gallery, and Dan Walsh at Paula Cooper Gallery

When these three Tiepolos at the Met were removed from the main salon of Ca’Dolfin, the intended site-specific lighting effects were lost. But Alpers, Hyde and Kulok recreate the way that, to quote Alpers and Baxandall, “the world, on Tiepolo’s account, presents a conundrum and his painting makes us conscious of having to work to make things out.”