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The Most Interesting Museum in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, the city where I live, has some very good art museums. The Carnegie Museum of Art has a large collection, focused on contemporary art....

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Venice Restored

After in 1902 the Campanile in Piazza San Marco, Venice collapsed, it was famously restored, ‘as it was, where it was’, in a display of the deeply...

16.04.2026 5

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Was there Transgressive Old Master Art in Venice?

Viewing a pictorial scene that you didn’t think possible is a startling, often revealing experience. You ask yourself, should you believe your eyes....

09.04.2026 7

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The End of Venetian Painting: A Very Short Story

In an earlier essay, “Relics/Icons/Paintings: A Very Short History of Venetian Painting,” I traced the origins of Venetian painting. Here,...

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Thomas Crow’s Radical Political Art History

Some years ago, I was obsessed with Thomas Crow’s impressive first book, Painters in Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1987). I even read the...

12.03.2026 10

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Relics/Icons/Paintings: A Very Short History of Venetian Painting

This essay is for Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good To understand the history of Venice, you need to know that there were three ways in which saints...

09.03.2026 10

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One-Shot Art

This essay is for S. G. and A. N. A successful artist, we are accustomed to think, must develop. And so we preserve her (or his) juvenilia, following...

06.02.2026 10

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Monet and Venice

Monet and Venice The Brooklyn Museum October 11, 2025 – February 1, 2026 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, March 21, 2026- July 26, 2026 “One...

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Learning from Opera (and Old Master Painting)

A philosopher interested in public life can learn from how the popular media handle issues of art and morality. I read with interest now and then...

05.09.2025 30

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The Romance of Writing Art Criticism

This essay is for Hakim Bishara Recently various commentators, myself amongst them, have pointed to the present crisis of art criticism. Some older...

23.05.2025 10

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The Death of the Travel Guidebook

This essay is for Mohara Gill, because she gave me the idea. Some years ago, critics worried that the novel was dying. The first novel, Tale of the...

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