books by Michael Kimmelman (portraits elsewhere artists)

books by Michael Kimmelman

books:

Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere (Modern Library Paperbacks)

4 reviews
Michael Kimmelman

Modern Library, 1999

Artists On Art
What could be better than going through art museums with artists and listening to their comments about the art on display and the artists who created that art? Michael Kimmelman, a distinguished art critic, had the great good fortune to do just that, and he wisely put himself in the background and let some very articulate people express themselves concerning things that they have thought about ...

The Accidental Masterpiece : On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

16 reviews
Michael Kimmelman, 2005

art for the rest of us
When I lived in Moscow and would visit St. Petersburg, a visit to the Hermitage Art Museum was always an obligatory pleasure. Ditto for New York; the last time my wife and I traveled there we visited the Metropolitan Museum. But at both museums I felt a pronounced sense of dislocation, like I somehow lacked the knowledge, the experience, or the aesthetic sensibility to appreciate fully the ...