Stories By Ed Voves

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
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
October 4, 2025Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
Books
Book Review: Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon by Martin Kemp
September 30, 2025The Vietnam War had been shredding bodies and hopes for so long that it hardly seemed...
Art & Design
Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 26, 2025Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
September 23, 2025David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
Art & Design
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
September 19, 2025Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
September 19, 2025In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...






