Giacometti, Portrait of David Sylvester, 1960, detail, Fogg Museum
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2014 Giacometti at the New FoggGiacometti made this portrait of the British art critic David Sylvester in 1960:I think a restful thing about Giacometti is the way different permutations of the same lines and shadings -- the same darkly scratched lines and the same shadings of gray, white, ... more»
- Sunday, November 16, 2014 Carbon and Water, Goya's IvoriesSomething to look for at the MFA’s Goya show (through January 19th, 2015) are the odd small miniatures on ivory that Goya did almost as a set of exercises at the end of his life. There are several of them scattered through the exhibition. Although they ... more»
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- Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Berenson Longlisted for JQ Wingate Prize in UKBernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade has been longlisted for Britain's JQ Wingate Prize, hosted by the Jewish Quarterly. Others on the long list this year include Simon Schama, Gary Shteyngart, Maxim Leo and Hanna Krall. The prize is awarded ... more»
- Monday, October 6, 2014 Lecture at HarvardI'm giving a public lecture at the History & Literature program at Harvard on Thursday, October 9th at 6 pm. The lecture is called "Bernard Berenson and the Picture Trade: Some Problems in Biography," and will take place in the Thompson Room ... more»
Featured Essays »
- 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»