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In the main hall of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, beneath the vast iron-and-glass vault of the former railway station, stands a bronze that makes explicit what Gérôme’s paintings kept implicit. A man in…
A museum guide stands in front of Arearea and points. The group behind her looks where she directs them. This is how most people encounter Gauguin — mediated, framed, explained. The painting on the…
There is a particular kind of afternoon that WordPress users know well. It begins with a minor irritation — an option that does not behave, a setting that appears to have no effect, a folder structure…
Franz Kafka died on June 3, 1924, of tuberculosis, in a sanatorium outside Vienna. He was 40. He left three unfinished novels, a substantial body of shorter fiction, letters, and diaries, and a note…
There is a wall label just visible at the left edge of this frame. It says 1871. That year is doing a lot of work. The painting is Maximilien Luce’s Une rue à Paris en mai 1871, completed around…
Johannes Vermeer lived 43 years, fathered fifteen children, worked as an art dealer to support them, and left behind approximately 36 paintings. The number is not certain — attribution disputes move a…
In the National Maritime Museum in Haifa, a marble sarcophagus panel from sixteenth-century Italy shows the ancient port of Rome in relief: harbor buildings rising from the waterline, ships under sail…
LatiNation Media, the independent, Latino-owned, English-language connected media network, has appointed Monica Collins as Vice President of Business Development. Collins, a multicultural media…
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna holds one of the strongest concentrations of Flemish and Netherlandish painting outside the Low Countries themselves, and the Aertsen panels in its collection…