Word: connoisseurship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detractors say, perhaps unfairly, that if you put Gagosian and the rest of his ilk in a bag and shook it for a week you wouldn't get an ounce of connoisseurship. But that is not what counts. What does count is the instinct for when to grab the chicken, the hot artist, and get a lock on his or her work...
...also, in excelsis, a show about connoisseurship, not block- busting. It was scrupulously and intelligently put together by Keith Christiansen, curator of the museum's department of European paintings. His aim, as far as possible, was to concentrate on narrative painting -- stories from the Bible, mainly -- instead of the static images of the Madonna in which Sienese painting abounds. Because these narratives are usually found in the small scenes around compound altarpieces, they have been scattered from Budapest to Melbourne in what museums euphemistically call the "dispersal" -- the dismemberment by thieves and dealers -- of big church paintings...
...impassioned dreaming about what culturally disparate objects might have in common. It is not the result of a stamp-collecting mania, the desire to complete a series or make programmatic points about art history; nor is it designed to be "educational." Rather it sets up objects of connoisseurship, a rebus of delectation to be read...
...drama of South Africa is ferociously played out in A Sport of Nature. -- Connoisseurship and greed meet in Artful Partners...
This suits the curatorial temper of the Met's 20th century department very well. Its stress lies on connoisseurship and comparison, rather than on telling the whole story of 20th century art. The Met's modern collection is not equal to that task anyway. Apart from decorative arts and furniture, it consists of some 6,000 works and is smaller than the Whitney's; it hardly begins to compare in scope and depth with MOMA's 65,000 objects...