Stories By Ed Voves

Art & Design
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
November 14, 2025Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...

Art
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 12, 2025Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...

Fiction Reviews
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
November 6, 2025Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....

Art
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 3, 2025But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...

Books
Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
November 3, 2025It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...

Art & Design
Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 28, 2025Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps Wheatfield...

Art
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
October 24, 2025This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the...

Art & Design
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 17, 2025In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
October 11, 2025For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
Art
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
October 9, 2025After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...












