Nov 16, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
On Gustav Schwab’s Greek myths, the Transcendentalists, John F. Peto & more from the world of culture.
On Gustav Schwab’s Greek myths, the Transcendentalists, John F. Peto & more from the world of culture.
On “Hogarth and Europe” at Tate Britain.
On the Paul Mellon Centre archives, Twyla Tharp, Beaux-Arts architecture & more from the world of culture.
On sketches by Kafka, Dostoevsky and Old Master paintings & a drawing by Van Eyck.
On confusion surrounding the value of beauty.
On Jean Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing & the scientific interests of Edgar Allan Poe.
On the life and work of the twentieth-century American sculptor.
On A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943 by John Richardson.
On the firing of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unpaid docents.
On eye miniatures, Marcel Dupré, The Lehman Trilogy, Marion Sims Wyeth & more from the world of culture.