A Closer Look at Alan Magee’s “Natural History” by Dan Kany
Attention to detail overflows from Alan Magee’s tool chest. Even at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can find yourself having masterpieces like van Gogh’s “Starry Night” all to yourself. The practice of looking very closely at individual paintings is the historical norm. (You can blame or thank Monet for the now-common-series-based gallery show.) In…