To the Summit, via Philadelphia

My review of “Matisse in the 1930s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Henri Matisse, Woman in Blue, 1937, Oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art. © Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

My review of the 1930s Matisse show at the Philly Museum appears in the December print edition of The New Criterion and online forthwith.

That said, the highlight of the issue is a touching recollection of Clement Greenberg by New York painter Pat Lipsky. In response I recall a line of Darby Bannard’s from Aphorisms for Artists, “Great art is immutable, placid, complete, unchanging, and content to let life rush around it in its perpetual race.”