Fur: A Sensitive History
February 16, 2021
Jonathan Faiers— Fur Thinking In 1963, as part of a publicity stunt, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Sonny Liston had a pair of boxing gloves made from mink. The gloves were… READ MORE
Category: Art & Architecture
A Conversation about Joan Mitchell
February 12, 2021
By Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel Yale University Press and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are very pleased to publish a sweeping and beautifully produced retrospective of the… READ MORE
Why Collecting is Viral
January 25, 2021
Natalya Semenova– Why do people even begin collecting? This has been bothering me for a long time. After all, I collect the stories of my protagonists in the same way… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Witold Rybczynski on Five Influential Texts
January 20, 2021
The five titles I have chosen are a mixed bag, but then so are the more than twenty books I have written over the last four decades, covering architecture, furniture,… READ MORE
Artemisia’s Fame, Present and Past
January 19, 2021
Jesse Locker — 2020 was, without a doubt, a terrible year for most of us; however, it was a very good year for the seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. The… READ MORE
Empire and the origins of the panorama
January 14, 2021
Tim Barringer– Jeff Wall’s photograph Restoration of 1993—a luminous transparency almost five meters wide—reveals the spectacular scale and complex mechanics of nineteenth-century panoramic paintings. The word “panorama” was coined in… READ MORE
More than Meets the Eye: American Furniture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
December 29, 2020
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley— After several years of research and writing, the first publication on the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s revered collection of American furniture dating from 1650 to 1840 has… READ MORE
Reflections on Africans in Gothic Sculpture, part 3
December 21, 2020
Erasure, Submission, Apotheosis Jacqueline E. Jung — Though hardly numerous, images of African men – often dressed in military garb, and always acting on behalf of established institutional powers –… READ MORE
The Lost Last Supper
December 16, 2020
Cees Nooteboom— When you hear the word inquisition, you think of Spain, heretics in strange tall pointed hats, the stake, forced confessions, horrifying images that make the words Holy Inquisition… READ MORE
Klee and Kandinsky Side by Side
December 14, 2020
Michael Peppiatt— Even if Paris lost its prominence as the art centre of the world around the mid-twentieth century (with existentialism waning and Abstract Expressionism on the rise), everything in… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic