Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 14, 2022A 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
April 3, 2022Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....
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Asian American
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 28, 2022As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 26, 2022Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Books
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
March 23, 2022The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
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Art
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 16, 2022To 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
March 10, 2022It demonstrates, as few earlier Warhol exhibits have done, the “sensation” that the trend-setting artist created...
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Biography
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 8, 2022The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Books
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2022The 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
March 1, 2022As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...