The Green Room: Auctions, sculptures, and horse flesh - the best of art exhibitions in 2018
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4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Dominic talks to the team of crack art critics from The New Criterion: James Panero, Benjamin Riley and Andrew Shea in this review of the best art exhibitions of the year. In between high brow chats on Michelangelo and Sir Alfred Munnings, the panel brings the energy of the New Criterion Christmas party, raging next door, with them. Is Panero coughing because he has TB, or was it induced by the prospect of the Boston MFA’s Toulouse-Lautrec show? Who was in and who was out in the major museums this year? And is Andy Shea really caught using his cellphone in the middle of a podcast?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Spectator Radio and you're listening to Life and Arts with Dominic Green for Spectator USA. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to the Green Room, Spectator USA's weekly Life and Arts podcasts. This week we're broadcasting live from New Criterion's headquarters in Manhattan, |
| 0:23.3 | a location specially chosen for the rattling of transportation outsides if you're trapped in an |
| 0:29.1 | Edward Hopper picture, which is nothing if not appropriate. He has the old year staggers to a close, |
| 0:35.6 | like a drunk at Christmas party, and the new year is nearly upon us like a muleing, puking babe. |
| 0:41.3 | Who better? To look back on the year in art and to look forward for another year in art with a team of critics on crack from the new criterion. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm sorry, I'll read that again. |
| 0:53.3 | A team of crack critics from the new criterion. With me, James P. The New Criterion. I'm sorry, I'll read that again. Team of Crack Critics for Only New Criterion. |
| 0:57.1 | With me, James Panero, Benjamin Riley, and Andrew Shea. Welcome all to the Green Room. |
| 1:03.3 | Thank you, an honor. It's great to be here. Thanks, Dominic. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, it's very good of you to host me here. We were just trying to remember what had taken place in |
| 1:11.6 | 2018. And looking back into the dim mists of time, the year began with some muscular heroics |
| 1:18.5 | from Michelangelo, James. Carmen Baumbach's Michelangelo drawings exhibition at the Met, |
| 1:25.7 | an incredible achievement. You've never seen so many drawings in one place. |
| 1:30.3 | It made the case to me also that Michelangelo was primarily, in my opinion, a sculptor who made drawings, and he drew like a sculptor. |
| 1:41.3 | Now, how can you see this in the work? I think it the way that he did hatch marks. |
| 1:46.0 | So he kind of carved the paper as he would carve stone. |
| 1:50.0 | Doing these straight lines, and that created shadowing. |
| 1:53.0 | I like to see more of it. |
| 1:55.0 | It was a traditional, great traditional, big met show. |
| 1:59.0 | I don't think we see enough of them these days. |
| 2:07.9 | Well, I mean, the big show of the spring, I think, was Delacroix at the Met as well. |
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