Sargent, Santa Maria della Salute, 1904
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- Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Feeling the Air, II’ve had a few conversations recently with people who are not that interested in painting. They say, reasonably, that in museums they are overwhelmed by the profusion, or that only really contemporary painting is strange enough to compel their attention, ... more»
- Sunday, November 24, 2013 Passages: PissarroCamille Pissarro, theorist and mentor of the Impressionist movement, was known for giving sound advice. Here are some of his thoughts as later recollected by the painter Louis Le Bail (in Rewald, The History of Impressionism). They’re in the ... more»
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- Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Berenson reviewed in Bookforum, New York Review of BooksIn Bookforum, Thomas Micchelli writes that Bernard Berenson is "luminous" and concludes: "In her remarkable biography, Cohen approaches Berenson's life as a panorama full of artifice and profundity, whose brilliant flashes of color are inextricable from ... more»
- Tuesday, November 5, 2013 BB starred in Booklist, reviewed in Wall Street Journal, GalleristRecent press for Bernard Berenson: a Life in the Picture Trade, includes this starred review by Donna Seaman in Booklist: Cohen (A Chance Meeting, 2004) presents the most dynamic biography yet of the groundbreaking art historian Bernard Berenson. Strung between ... 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»