Carol Strickland

Carol Strickland is an art critic working in New York whose writing has appeared in Art in America, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times, among other outlets. A former university teacher with a PhD from the University of Michigan, she is author of the best-selling introduction to art history, The Annotated Mona Lisa, and other books on art and architecture, including The Annotated Arch: a Crash Course in the History of Architecture. Her enhanced eBook Impressionism: a Legacy of Light (published by Erudition Digital of London) has just been released on iBooks for the iPad.

Features• February 3, 2016

Back to the Future: The Social-Activist Architecture of Moshe Safdie

By Carol Strickland

A recent exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York raised the question Moshe Safdie (born 1938) has wrestled with his whole career. Is…

Features• January 11, 2016

From Exile to Acclaim, the Unlikely Story of Mu Xin, and China’s Reformation

By Carol Strickland

Landscaping along the 87-mile stretch of highway from Shanghai to the ancient village of Wuzhen in southern China is a work in progress. On…

Features• September 21, 2015

The First Modern Art Dealer and the Movement He Incited

By Carol Strickland

Impresario, entrepreneur, gambler, and connoisseur – the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) was all of these. He was also a force in fostering…

Features• September 11, 2015

Shedding New Light on the Night: Obscurity and Clarity in the American Nocturne

By Carol Strickland

Artists have long exploited the Zoroastrian struggle between light and dark to create images. Although darkness implies mystery and melancholy, in the hands of…

Features• April 8, 2015

Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame

By Carol Strickland

In recent years, the reputation of postwar abstract painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) – known for turbulent, crimson paintings made with his feet – has…