The Deb’s Fig-Leaf
The purity of a pure stone is something unknown in the fine arts; there is no such thing as a pure and perfect watercolour.
The purity of a pure stone is something unknown in the fine arts; there is no such thing as a pure and perfect watercolour.
Andrew Solomon is featured in a new book by the acclaimed artists and dissident Ai Weiwei.
The triumph of northern art is its ability to move us not despite but rather by dint of restraint and exactness.
The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair is on, and beautiful objects made in the reign of William and Mary are there to be swooned over.
Freedom is a verb. It is something you live and achieve, that you must relive and achieve again every day.
How have walls come to be so popular in a time when globalism would seem to be knocking down walls?
You see at once that the work is beautiful, but you can tell that it is not simply about its own beauty.
Be careful of whatever is easy; if it’s really easy, it’s probably not worth writing about.
The human face is, to humans, the most fascinating sight on earth.
The American Academy of Arts & Letters has announced that librettist Justin Warner, composer Robert Maggio and lyricist Kristin Maloney have won a 2024 Richard Rodgers Award for Far From the Tree, a musical adaptation of Andrew Solomon’s 2012 bestseller.