An interview with Jimmy Kaufman, Editor of “The Freedom Book”
July 25, 2024"The book is a conversation about freedom that seeks to inspire the reader to think for...
Art for a New Gilded Age
July 22, 2024Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 15, 2024The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 10, 2024Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
July 8, 2024His sculptures, like his wonderful Elephant of 1929-1930, or his Chimpanzee of 1928, were often carved...
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 8, 2024Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
Art Review: Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful, Denver Art Museum
July 5, 2024The pair make their way through a crowded New York park. At the woman’s neck, a...
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
June 30, 2024But 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
June 30, 2024It 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
June 26, 2024Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...