So "Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900," an exhibition of many splendid prints at the Brooklyn Museum, offers a useful and informative corrective.
Hollywood has ever found drama in medicine, from Paul Muni's turn in "The Life of Louis Pasteur" to Robin Williams in Oliver Sacks's "Awakenings," but perhaps the greatest and most harrowing of medical movies is Nicholas Ray's "Bigger Than Life," from 1956, which is playing in a splendid new print at Film Forum.
Julianna Margulies, who often wears understated black dresses, was splendid in a floral print Giambattista Valli couture gown made of thick brocade, "almost like the upholstery you might see in Versailles," said her stylist, Cristina Ehrlich.
For that (and for an even more satisfying synthesis of the director's life and his work), there's a splendid, long out-of-print book by the late Stephen Harvey, "Directed by Vincente Minnelli".
Here the story is illustrated with paintings, maps, navigational aids, antique prints and a splendid 19th-century scale-model of a light galley, with 156 rowers at their oars.
Of course, there was much to admire, especially the leafy, African-style prints that were a splendid antidote to New York's ubiquitous flowers this season.
The new 4K print is gorgeous, the performances splendid.
"Robert Adams: The Place We Live," a splendid retrospective exhibition of more than 250 prints dating from the 1960s to 2009 at the Yale University Art Gallery here, surveys an oeuvre that is as compelling for its understated style as for its moral ferocity.
This splendid retrospective show of more than 250 prints dating from the late 1960s to 2009 surveys an oeuvre that is as compelling for its understated metaphorical resonance as for its moral ferocity.
This splendid retrospective show of more than 250 prints from the late 1960s to 2009 surveys an oeuvre that is as compelling for its understated metaphorical resonance as for its moral ferocity.
