Stories By Ed Voves

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
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...

Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
December 23, 2025The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
Art & Design
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...













