Fine Art

Southern Man Southern Man

In 1900 Maurice Denis painted a large canvas titled Hommage à Cézanne, which shows the esteemed master next to one of his paintings and surrounded by a crowd of a...

May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Sex and the City Sex and the City

From the mid to the late 1920s, the German painter Christian Schad produced a group of paintings like little else in modern art.

May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The Anatomy Lesson The Anatomy Lesson

Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle

Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Reading Leonardo Reading Leonardo

In 1906, the French savant Pierre Duhem published a three-volume work on Leonardo as scientist under the innocuous title Études sur Leonard de Vinci. It was the work's s...

Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The ‘Indivisible Four’ The ‘Indivisible Four’

The Grey Art Gallery, which occupies the former site of the Museum of Living Art in the main building of New York University on Washington Square, is celebrating its legendary ...

Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The Bride & the Bottle Rack The Bride & the Bottle Rack

The idea of craft is an unanticipated product of the Industrial Revolution.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique

Judy Chicago

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

The Art of 9/11 The Art of 9/11

Mama, build me a fence!

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime

Henry James could not resist giving the hero of his 1877 novel The American the allegorical name "Newman," but he went out of his way to describe him as a muscular Christian, to d...

May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

History in a Blur History in a Blur

It seems scarcely to have required a great philosophical mind to come up with the observation that each of us is the child of our times, but that thought must have been receive...

Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

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