The New Art Season: In Museums, Masters Old and New
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Holland Cotter
On paper, the 2014-15 art season looks unusually well balanced, with no foreseeable leaps in the dark, but not much dead space either. Going further into the past, the season promises at least three non-Western beauties. “The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky,” opening at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., on Sept. 19 and coming in March to the Met, will have some of the most moving Native American art under the sun. Rare “Buddhist Art of Myanmar” at Asia Society (Feb. 10) draws dozens of works from dusty temples in that long closed-off country to demonstrate the endless local inflections that “Buddhist art” generated wherever it made its home. “Senufo: Art, History, and Style in West Africa” at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Feb. 22) makes a comparable case for a regional form of “African art”: The brilliance lies in a variety uncontained by continent or creed. [link]
By Holland Cotter
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| 15th-century Burmese demons made of glazed earthenware, will be on view at Asia Society Museum as part of “Buddhist Art of Myanmar,” which opens in February. Credit Sean Dunga |
