“Mom, is this another art fair?” asked a kid standing in the sparse line outside the Whitney Museum.
“No, it’s the...
I have a weakness for large books, I don’t mean a Janson History of Art or Webster’s Third International, I mean the real bad...
“The great problem confronting neuroscience is how the brain becomes the mind. How that three-pound knitting ball makes you feel...
Hegel noted in his Ästhetik that “art had worked itself out” and was being displaced by rational inquiry, a continent drift from...
Reification is the theme of Vincent Desiderio's eighth painting show at the Marlborough Gallery in New York City, taking the subtitle...
He has the hands of Claude Monet. Such were my early thoughts upon viewing the exhibition of Jan De Vliegher’s painterly works of...
It’s not often that a writer faces the curse (or, for some, the opportunity) of having to draw on the literal meaning of a one-time...
“SPEAK ENGLISH YOU PATHETIC IDIOT” screamed the last WASP in Miami in a losing fight to slot her planet–saving “Green Elf”...
In his Le Mariage d’Olympe (1855) playwright Émile Augier coined the phrase “nostalgie de la boue,” in English: nostalgia for...
When Greek philosophers quit trying to explain the world by storytelling, as in mythology, they explained it instead as water. In...
The improbable literary hit of the summer is “Bad Boy,” a book written jointly by artist Eric Fischl and journalist Michael Stone....
In 1980 the volcano at Mount St. Helens blasted a vertical quarter mile of the mountain top into the sky. The airborne debris field...
The image of the Ouroboros manifests itself in a variety of cultures and eras that had little knowledge of each other: the image of a...
The 1136 History of Kings of Britain mixed fact and fantasy in such a delightful way that it fooled historians for centuries, Geoffrey...
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