European Art
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I’m So Delighted by the Newly Renovated Frick Collection
I attended a preview of the renovated Frick Collection in New York and was delighted by every aspect of it. Get all the details ahead of the Apr 17 opening.
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Siena: The Rise of Painting exhibition review
My review of the exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 at the Met Museum. I enjoyed this show and the beautiful works within.
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Art-Inspired Delicacies: Art Afternoon Tea at The Merrion Dublin
At the Merrion, a fancy hotel in Dublin, you can have a unique, art-inspired afternoon tea while enjoying the hotel’s extensive art collection.
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Caught Between Eras: Chateau de Pierrefonds
The Chateau de Pierrefonds, a castle in France, demonstrates how the line between medieval and modern can get really blurry.
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Louise Moillon – a new book about an intriguing still life painter
Louise Moillon, an upcoming book by art historian Lesley Stevenson, is about a 17th-century French painter with a short but intriguing career.
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Van Gogh’s Cypresses: 2023’s Summer Blockbuster
This summer, everyone is talking about the Van Gogh’s Cypresses exhibition at the Met in NYC. I recently saw the exhibition and had a really nice time.
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Contemplating Moroni’s Portrait of a Woman at the Frick
The Frick recently acquired Portrait of a Woman, an intriguing and surprisingly assertive portrait of an unknown woman in luxurious Renaissance clothing.
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What is Attribution?
Understand attribution, the process by which art historians make educated suppositions about who made an artwork when they don’t know the artist for sure.
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Cocktails with a Curator, the Book
Cocktails with a Curator (2022) is the book version of the Frick Collection’s wildly-popular 2020-21 video series of the same title.
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The Narbonne Cathedral Dog Gargoyle
Enjoy this photo, sent in by a reader, of a Saint Bernard dog gargoyle from the cathedral of Saint-Just and Saint-Pasteur in Narbonne, France.
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Have a Sublime Halloween
Enjoy a few of my favorite Sublime landscape paintings, which are definitely frightening enough for Halloween.
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Orsola Maddalena Caccia at the Met
The Met’s acquisition of three works by little-known 16th-century painter Orsola Maddalena Caccia made headlines in late 2020.
