Intricately cut and assembled sculptures of paper. Brightly colored porcelain horns that actually can be played. Lamps made of different…
Nicole Williams
Jealousy, fear, spite, exhilaration, a deep respect – all are evident in the decades-long interaction between Henri Matisse and Pablo…
There is only one painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman show: "St. Jerome Praying…
According to Ronan Bennett, the novelist and screenwriter who wrote Rebel Heart, a terrible thing happened in 1922. A Belfast…
In one of the essays collected in Making Museums Matter, Stephen E. Weil quotes Alfred H. Barr on the principal…
In the author’s note that opens Nonrequired Reading, Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska writes about a reader’s freedom:…
At the end of the twentieth century, Paris’ magnificent Gare d’Orsay train station was transformed into a great museum, the…