Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
The Female Gaze and Modern Women at PAFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
October 2, 2024In Neel’s painting, the sitter’s beauty is not compromised by her pregnant condition and makes no...
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Art
Art Review: Drawing Surrealism, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
September 26, 2024Serious or concerted intellectual effort had no part in the process of creating Surrealist art –...
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Art & Design
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
September 16, 2024Portraits at the Stock Exchange reveals a truth about the age of the Impressionists that often...
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Art
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
September 13, 2024The Pre-Raphaelites shared several treasured ideals, but their painting styles varied greatly. The two transcendent themes,...
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Art
Art Review: “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 7, 2024And what is true of Blagdon’s poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
August 31, 2024Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
August 23, 2024A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
August 22, 2024On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
August 18, 2024The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Biography
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
August 15, 2024The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...