The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective Käthe Kollwitz, the artist’s long overdue New York City major debut, is both a technical and thematic wonder suffused with the artist’s fury and the overwhelming pathos of her work. The exhibition examines both the piecemeal ways in which Kollwitz produced her works and the recurrent nature of her motifs, including, of course, hands.
In the eyes of the profound American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), a single artwork can’t always fully express the complexity of its subject: sometimes it takes a few tries. Up now at MoMA is a wonderful expansion of that idea in Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time, featuring more than 120 works on paper spanning five decades of the pioneering artist s career.