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