An exhibition wonders at how landscape painting has changed to address the contemporary world.

Rothko/Giotto Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin February 6-May 3, 2009 Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin March 7- May 10, 2009 Blockbuster exhibitions can be extremely small. When recently the Frick presented the London Cimabue alongside its Manhattan mate, in the small room next to the bookstore, a revelatory visual relationship was … Continued

I wanted to convince my friend, the photorealist artist Richard Estes, to consent to this interview. We were at dinner, and I said to him, “Richard, I shall lead the story by saying ‘Among the giants in the world of Contemporary Realism Richard Estes is a god.’ How does that sound?” I suppose it worked … Continued