Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 29, 2023A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...
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Art
Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum
August 16, 2023Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
August 10, 2023As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
August 9, 2023Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
August 5, 2023The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
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Religion
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
July 28, 2023To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Art
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 22, 2023It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
July 20, 2023The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
July 15, 2023The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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After Image
Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
July 13, 2023As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...