The New Yorker6d
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...
Frank Auerbach, painter who fled Nazi Germany and became a major artist, dies at 93
Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, ...
These Are the 14 Best 4-Star Hotels in Paris
Whether you’re looking for a hip hangout spot near the Canal Saint-Martin or prefer a Jazz Age-infused refuge close to the ...
Global Design: Be inspired by art nouveau spaces in Belgium and Singapore
The art nouveau design movement showcases the Belgian flair for visual language. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Artnet13d
There Has Never Been a Tom Wesselmann Show Like This
A Paris exhibition proves that the world is ready for the gargantuan Pop Art vision of one of the movement's forebears, Tom ...
Artnet8d
French Critics Spar With American Curators Over a Show Implying a Famous Impressionist May Have Been Gay
The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.
America Magazine4d
Nabokov, ‘Lolita’ and the question of morally offensive art
Is Nabokov’s novel morally offensive? Patently, it is not. We live in a universe of treacherous choices, of corruption and ...
48 hills4d
The ‘Queen of Art Deco’ finally gets her due
In first major US retrospective, de Young's 'Tamara de Lempicka' reveals stunning portraits of Russian aristocrats and ...
AOL9d
These 30 Famous People Mysteriously Disappeared And Were Never Found
Kees was an American painter, jazz pianist, filmmaker, and poet. He became famous as an icon of the Beat Generation of ...
Make robots our translators and we risk cultural disaster
Literary translation is a crucial – and misunderstood – part of the publishing industry. Now it’s under threat from ...
Freud Museum exhibition uses art to explore the psychoanalyst’s often contradictory relationships with women
The expansive new exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists fills the entire space of London’s Freud Museum. It tells the stories of “Freud’s women” through a mix of visual and historical ...
'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...