Stories By Ed Voves

Art
Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
March 1, 2026As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
February 25, 2026Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...

Books
Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
February 23, 2026Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...

Art
Art Review: Picasso Black and White
February 18, 2026The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the perfect venue for hosting great chronological exhibitions...

Biography
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 15, 2026Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...

Fiction Reviews
Book Review: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks
February 9, 2026If we could follow the mortal remains or spiritual resonance of a sport-loving soldier from the...

Art
The Female Gaze and Modern Women at PAFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
February 5, 2026In Neel’s painting, the sitter’s beauty is not compromised by her pregnant condition and makes no...

Art
Art Review: Drawing Surrealism, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
January 30, 2026Serious or concerted intellectual effort had no part in the process of creating Surrealist art –...

Art & Design
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
January 21, 2026Portraits at the Stock Exchange reveals a truth about the age of the Impressionists that often...

Art & Design
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
January 17, 2026The Pre-Raphaelites shared several treasured ideals, but their painting styles varied greatly. The two transcendent themes,...














