Boring Art? Bring It.
Expensive, large, and burdensome to travel with, the camcorders I was first exposed to served only one purpose: to painstakingly document every birthday party, dance recital, and performance of...
View ArticleIn Need of a Géricault “Fix”
Even though it’s been more than a decade, I remember it as though it were yesterday. Like so many art history students, I made my first pilgrimage to the Louvre—tantamount to mecca for an art nerd like...
View ArticleBeyond the First Impression: Rediscovering Monet in Paris
Though his name has become synonymous with the 19th century’s canonical movement of Impressionism, and though his masterpieces hang proudly in the halls of the world’s finest museums, Claude Monet has...
View ArticleManet of Mystery (and Melancholy)
The Rue Mosnier with Flags, Édouard Manet, 1878 My love affair with Édouard Manet, who was born on this day in 1832, is now decades in the making—dating back to my very first high school art history...
View ArticleHonoré Daumier: Still Relevant after 150 Years
The French judicial system on trial: A Criminal Case, Honoré Daumier, 1865. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 89.GA.33 Years ago I found myself in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a posse of 15 finance...
View Article85 Years After John Singer Sargent
During the late 19th century, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the most fashionable portrait painter in England and the United States. An example of his iconic style, his Portrait of Thérése,...
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