<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Blake Gopnik</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><description>Blake Gopnik</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Symphony of Images]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64513-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64513-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Christian Marclay's "Video Quartet" is as impressive as contemporary art gets, with an emotional charge that should leave a lump in almost any viewer's throat.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Artist Who Manufactured Dawn]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37399-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37399-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If all art strikes a balance between visual effect and thought, artist Spencer Finch is standing in the middle of the seesaw, one foot balanced on each side, praying not to fall.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caravaggio: More Shock Than Awe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18957-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18957-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LONDON<br> When "Caravaggio: The Final Years" opened its doors one recent morning, it took only a minute for the rooms it fills in Britain's National Gallery to become mobbed. It is the must-see show of the London season  --  the art-loving public's equivalent to "Spamalot."]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sloppy Chic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1134-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1134-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In London, the young artists selected for the sixth annual "Beck's Futures" exhibit make an interesting contrast to well-mannered American art and its gracious courtship of the well-heeled few.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face Value]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2304-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2304-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In his portraits of George Washington, Gilbert Stuart refused to be swayed by the fame of his subject.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Everyday, Turned on Edge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48630-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48630-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John Lehr, a Baltimorean just finishing his master of fine arts degree at Yale, is the ideal example for "Closer to Home," the latest version of the Corcoran Biennial of contemporary art.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['SlideShow,' Projecting a Surprising Artistic Depth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27336-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27336-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE<br>Vivid colors, glowing brighter than any painting ever could. An image as big as a medieval tapestry but easy to take from place to place. A realism so intense that faces "all but smile back at you." This was the "magic of color slides," as advertised by Kodak in the 1950s and...]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sculptor Who Keeps Reinventing  His Form]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7519-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7519-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK<br>Tim Hawkinson, a 44-year-old sculptor from Los Angeles, has a pretty traditional take on making art. And he makes art that is about as nontraditional as anything could be.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go East, Young Woman!]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53477-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53477-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  As  you read this, Iona Rozeal Brown will have barely begun to settle down 6,000 miles from her home in Maryland. The 38-year-old painter recently took up a fellowship to spend six months in Japan while she contemplates the art she will make next.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modigliani, Giving Tradition the Brush]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53473-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53473-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Imagine  growing up as an artist surrounded by all the glories of the Italian Renaissance. Imagine studying Michelangelo in Florence, Raphael in Rome, Titian in Venice.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Essence of Rubens]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36735-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36735-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Out of the 115 works in "Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all but a handful are fantastic.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready to Find His Own Voice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24878-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24878-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Local  painter Ian Whitmore must be awfully pleased. His current show at Fusebox sold out before it even hit the walls, a first for the gallery.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christo's Gates: A Little Creaky]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20058-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20058-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[They're way, way better than the pandas, pigs, cows and other fiberglass tchotchkes that have "decorated" our cities over the past decade.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deft Benefits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17227-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17227-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sometimes,  our obsession with  genius can get us into trouble. When you rave about the radical talents of a Leonardo or a Beethoven, it can lead you to neglect the real but modest pleasures to be had from a Boltraffio or Wilms. (Who? My point exactly.)]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring Projections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63204-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63204-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery is the giant of the upcoming art season in Washington. Of the top dozen shows on view in the city this winter and spring, about half are at the National Gallery.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning a Prophet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44410-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44410-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Rembrandt's  Late Religious Portraits," a stunning exhibition opening today at the National Gallery of Art, is playing host to some powerful characters. There's Saint Paul, busy firing off letters to those Corinthians and Romans. The Apostle James, who was called Jesus's brother,  is nearby. He looks like a cheery version of his holy sibling, as tradition says he should. Bavo, patron saint of the Dutch city of Haarlem, is got up like a grand medieval knight out hunting with his falcon. There's also Jesus himself, looking properly otherworldly, and Mary, deep in mourning for her son.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berthe Morisot, Who Manned The Canvas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9685-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9685-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Berthe Morisot, one of the pioneers of impressionism and the first female member of the movement, was a cross-dresser.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Very Full Week]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28138-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28138-2004Dec26.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At the National Gallery of Art, the permanent collection offers a week's worth of wonders.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, Old and New]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24368-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24368-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of griping about Washington's cultural deprivation compared with the world's other famous cities; but in 2004 alone, the exhibitions on view in Washington would have done any megalopolis proud.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of Character and Into His Art]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56538-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56538-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/museums/columns/gopnik</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:28:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Grossmalerman has got to be one of the most unpleasant artists you could ever meet.]]></description><author> Blake Gopnik</author></item></channel></rss>