Stories By Ed Voves
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Books
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
February 26, 2022Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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Biography
Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
February 22, 2022Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
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Art
Art Review: Picasso Black and White
February 12, 2022The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the perfect venue for hosting great chronological exhibitions...
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Art
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 4, 2022Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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Books
Book Review: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks
January 20, 2022If we could follow the mortal remains or spiritual resonance of a sport-loving soldier from the...
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Art
The Female Gaze and Modern Women at PAFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
January 10, 2022In 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
December 28, 2021Serious or concerted intellectual effort had no part in the process of creating Surrealist art –...
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Art
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
December 6, 2021Portraits 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.
November 30, 2021The 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
November 23, 2021And what is true of Blagdon’s poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of...