California Literary Review

Ed Voves

Ed Voves is a freelance writer, based in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, the artist Anne Lloyd, and a swarm of cats who love curling up with good books. Mr. Voves graduated with a B.A. in History from LaSalle University in 1976 and a Masters in Information Science from Drexel University in 1989. After teaching for several years with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he worked in the news research department for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and the "Philadelphia Daily News," 1985 to 2003. It was with the "Daily News," that he began his freelance writing, doing book reviews and author interviews with such notable figures as Umberto Eco, Maurice Sendak, and Peter O'Toole. For the "Inquirer," he specialized in reviews of major historical works. Following his time with the newspapers, he worked as an independent researcher for Knowledge@Wharton, the online journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the staff of the Free Library of Philadelphia in 2005 and is currently the branch manager of the Kingsessing Branch in southwest Philadelphia. In 2006, he began writing for the "California Literary Review." History of Yoga

Stories By Ed Voves

Art

John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum

By Ed VovesSeptember 21, 2021

Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
Art

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By Ed VovesSeptember 19, 2021

Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
Books

Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy

By Ed VovesSeptember 14, 2021

Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
Art

Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By Ed VovesSeptember 11, 2021

But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
Art

Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

By Ed VovesSeptember 10, 2021

It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...
Art

Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art

By Ed VovesSeptember 3, 2021

Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps Wheatfield...
Art

Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

By Ed VovesAugust 29, 2021

This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the...
Art

Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Ed VovesAugust 23, 2021

In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
Art

Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

By Ed VovesAugust 17, 2021

For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
Archeology

Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City

By Ed VovesAugust 16, 2021

After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...