The Palette of Delacroix, Musée Delacroix
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- Saturday, June 28, 2014 Delacroix's PaletteThe final studio in which Delacroix worked is also, spatially, the last in a series of seclusions. It’s a wonderful large square, lit by immense skylights, and surrounded by gardens that Delacroix filled with a profusion of flowers, their colors ... more»
- Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Morisot in ParisAt the Musée Marmottan last week a chance to really see Morisot: a whole room of the paintings; a smaller room with fifteen watercolors and a selection of works she owned; drawings by the artist and by members of her family; and a special exhibition ... more»
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- Saturday, April 26, 2014 Interview with Five BooksI had the pleasure of recommending five books about writing about visual experience for the website Five Books, a place where I've discovered many interesting things to read. The books I chose are ones I've recently been engaged with that have been ... more»
- Friday, April 11, 2014 Guggenheim FellowshipI'm delighted to be one of the 2014 Guggenheim fellows in General Nonfiction alongside Deborah Baker, Emily Fox Gordon, Joy Harjo, Yunte Huang, Jamie James, D.T. Max, Meghan O'Rourke, Susan Orlean and Victoria Sweet. The entire list of new fellows ... 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»