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...
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...
Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
October 30, 2025Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
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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...
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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...
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Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees
October 23, 2025This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and...
Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum
October 17, 2025In 1959, he referred to esteemed critic Clement Greenberg and others as “wandering mongrels” only able...
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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...
Art Review: Two Chinese Exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum
October 15, 2025This was a world in which the color of the glass finial on one’s hat indicated...
West of Center: Art and the Countercultural Experiment in America, 1965 -1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
October 15, 2025Earnest rather than ironic, unashamedly idealistic, unafraid of appearing amateurish and haphazard, many of the contents...
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