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...
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 30, 2025Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
August 30, 2025Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
Beauty & Bounty: American Art in the Age of Exploration, Seattle Art Museum
August 25, 2025The highlight of the gallery would have to be the three paintings by lesser-known artist Martin...
Stacey Steers’ Night Hunter
August 20, 2025Here, Gish finds herself amidst a riot of Freudian imagery – snakes, earthworms, and phallic blades...
Art Review: Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum
August 20, 2025Marajó is a vast island lying at the mouth of the Amazon, much of which is...




