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 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...
The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17
October 6, 2025Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much...
Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
September 28, 2025Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum
September 27, 2025The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of...
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,...
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...
Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
September 12, 2025De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
September 11, 2025Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...




