Ogata Korin, Cranes and Pines, mid-17th century, detail
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- Friday, August 17, 2018 Folding ScreenI had a thought last week at the Metropolitan Museum's Poetry of Nature exhibit of Edo Paintings. A most basic, untutored thought, but of interest to me. Standing before a folding screen, on which was mounted Cranes and Pines, a work in ink ... more»
- Monday, April 2, 2018 Giacometti and James LordPreparing for class this week, I reread James Lord’s book Giacometti: A Portrait. The book is broken into the eighteen sittings Lord did with Giacometti one fall, in September and October of 1964, for a painted portrait. Lord’s book was published ... more»
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- Monday, November 20, 2017 Beckmann on Instagram at the VQRA piece I've been writing for a long time about Max Beckmann's Actors is running in fragments at the Virginia Quarterly Review. https://www.instagram.com/p/BbuldZKF-T8/?taken-by=vqreview ... more»
- Thursday, November 2, 2017 Review Essay on the Women of Surrealism in the Literary ReviewMy review of Whitney Chadwick's very interesting book The Militant Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism is in this week's issue of Britain's Literary Review. The opening can be read here: https://literaryreview.co.uk/current-issue ... 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»