Boudin, Beach Scene near Trouville, 1886, Metropolitan Museum of Art, iphone detail
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- Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Degas TrioAt the MFA right now, a trio of Degas portraits are not to be missed. They can be stumbled upon in a narrow blue-green corridor on the second floor, next to the sealed off construction zone that is normally Impressionism. It is as if three of the ... more»
- Saturday, February 15, 2014 Snow* At this time last year, in the days when my father was dying, it snowed and snowed. From the hospital windows, it had its beauty. The hallway near the elevators had windows that looked down on to a sort of large courtyard, not rustic, but still ... more»
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- Friday, January 17, 2014 Talk for Gardner Museum Members 1/25/14I'll be giving a talk called "Questions of Collecting: Berenson, Gardner and the Market for Italian Pictures in America," at the Gardner Museum on January 25th at 3:30 pm. The talk is free, but for Gardner members only. Further details are ... more»
- Friday, December 13, 2013 Berenson reviewed in Spectator, Sunday TelegraphSam Leith writes in the Spectator that: "Rachel Cohen’s unobtrusively and thoroughly well written short volume skilfully negotiates the contradictory sides of Berenson’s character — the aesthete and the huckster; the man who lived only for ... more»
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- Gold, Golden, Gilded, GlitteringThis essay, on a long complex history of overlap in financial and artistic inventions, appeared in The Believer in the Nov / Dec 2012 issue. ... more»
- Looking at PoussinThis essay, on the occasion of the Metropolitan Museum's Poussin Exhibition, "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions," February 12-May 11, 2008, appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of The Threepenny Review. ... more»