Nov 16, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
On Gustav Schwab’s Greek myths, the Transcendentalists, John F. Peto & more from the world of culture.
Topic: “Art”
Nov 09, 2021
Hogarth the European?
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On “Hogarth and Europe” at Tate Britain.
Nov 09, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
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On the Paul Mellon Centre archives, Twyla Tharp, Beaux-Arts architecture & more from the world of culture.
Nov 05, 2021
Week in review
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On sketches by Kafka, Dostoevsky and Old Master paintings & a drawing by Van Eyck.
Nov 04, 2021
Prices are no help at all
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On confusion surrounding the value of beauty.
Oct 29, 2021
Week in review
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On Jean Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing & the scientific interests of Edgar Allan Poe.
Art November 2021
A Rickey Renaissance
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On the life and work of the twentieth-century American sculptor.
Art November 2021
Richardson’s Picasso, volume IV
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On A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943 by John Richardson.
Notes & Comments November 2021
Education apocalypse now
On the firing of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unpaid docents.
Sep 28, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
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On eye miniatures, Marcel Dupré, The Lehman Trilogy, Marion Sims Wyeth & more from the world of culture.