I managed to get up to the Pearlstein retrospective at the Montclair Museum just before it closed and it was an excellent show. In the front room, a video of Mr. Pearlstein demonstrated him painting and contained interviews with him and a few of his models. In addition to the very familiar figurative works (with even more of the props that I saw from the studio visit), the show contained a bunch of portraits and even some landscapes and cityscapes. One thing I now wish I had asked him: How does he paint on those huge canvases? Some of them are much taller than he is, and I didn’t see any mechanism easel-wise for him to be able to paint such large canvases (I guess he could have hidden a step-stool!).