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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....
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...
Viewing a pictorial scene that you didn’t think possible is a startling, often revealing experience. You ask yourself, should you believe your eyes....
In an earlier essay, “Relics/Icons/Paintings: A Very Short History of Venetian Painting,” I traced the origins of Venetian painting. Here,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This essay is for Hakim Bishara Recently various commentators, myself amongst them, have pointed to the present crisis of art criticism. Some older...
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...