I could not have been more wrong. Jan Krugier and his wife Marie-Anne Poniatowski, dedicated collectors since 1968, have gathered paintings, sculptures and works on paper by important artists of the last 500 years. The couple's selection, informed by their own artistic training and gallery-ownership experience, results in a viewing experience that is warm, intimate and with many a graceful surprise. More and more, we are losing these criteria.
Art has rules.
The exhibition is on view through May 14, 2000. Teresa Lanceta at the Reina Sofia Barcelona native Teresa Lanceta is the quiet type. She shuns press conferences, welcomes personal conversation and finds her artistic voice in a long-anonymous art form, the Moroccan tapestry. In an unusual and spectacularly well-mounted show at the Reina Sof a Museum, Lanceta's complex wool tapestries and stark, stitched linen paintings are placed side by side with pillow covers, wedding veils, rugs and wall coverings woven by Berber tribeswomen from four different regions of Morocco. This absorbing show is divided into three distinct areas, one of which displays Moroccan floor coverings and cloths mounted in the floor beneath glass panels.