Stories By Ed Voves

Books
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...

Books
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 & Design
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
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...

Great Britain
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,...

Art
Art Review: “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
January 12, 2026And what is true of Blagdon’s poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of...

Art
Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
January 6, 2026Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....

Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
December 28, 2025A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...

Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
December 27, 2025On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...














