Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, 1901
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- Wednesday, December 11, 2013 A First Glimpse of Sargent and MonetIn a book on Monet’s series paintings of London (between 1900 and 1904 he made almost a hundred paintings of three subjects: the Waterloo Bridge, the Charing Cross Bridge, the Houses of Parliament) I read this cursory paragraph: The successful portrait ... more»
- 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»
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- Monday, December 9, 2013 Berenson reviewed in Sunday Telegraph"Martin Gayford enjoys an elegant biography of a chameleon-like art historian."Read the full review here:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10494326/Bernard-Berenson-by-Rachel-Cohen-review.html ... more»
- 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»
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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»