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Mar 19, 2026
When I was a curator and a museum director, I never went to the art fair held by the European Fine Art Foundation, or TEFAF, an annual extravaganza held in Maastricht in the...
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Mar 12, 2026
Greetings from the Swamp! I always enjoy visiting. Excise the ruthless bastards, the useless bastards, the liars, reptiles, and Grooms of the Stool — every day is a race...
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Mar 9, 2026
Sometimes opportunity knocks in booms and bangs. I told a good friend a week ago that I was heading to North Adams, Mass., a short drive from my home, to see the Massachusetts...
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Feb 27, 2026
This week I’m not venturing far, so I’ll write about the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, or MASS MoCA, a little east of my home in ye olde Vermont and the...
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Feb 19, 2026
Today is Valentine’s Day, so what to write, what to write? There’s Fragonard’s Progress of Love series at the Frick, commissioned by Madame du Barry,...
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Feb 13, 2026
One thing that enquiring minds don’t ask anymore is whether the Hispanic Society is worth a visit. Those in the know understand that this unique, fantastic museum in...
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Feb 6, 2026
Lots of juicy art news in the new year, so let’s peek into the glass hive. I’ve written off and on about the drive to unionize museum staffs. Two weeks ago, unions...
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Jan 29, 2026
Enough of America’s 250th, for a while at least. I’m writing today about my visit to the Morgan Library, much loved and always worth visiting, since its Renoir...
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Jan 22, 2026
Greetings from rainy, snowy, icy, and flu-ish Vermont. Yes, though normally a cheetah dashing from place to place, I was felled, walloped, really, by the flu ten days ago on the...
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Jan 2, 2026
I’m always chipper around Christmas and New Year’s, times of gift giving, snow, revelation, reflection, and renewal. Revelation isn’t just about prophets...
Mar 19, 2026When I was a curator and a museum director, I never went to the art fair held by the European Fine Art Foundation, or TEFAF, an annual extravaganza held in Maastricht in the...
Mar 9, 2026Sometimes opportunity knocks in booms and bangs. I told a good friend a week ago that I was heading to North Adams, Mass., a short drive from my home, to see the Massachusetts...
Feb 19, 2026Today is Valentine’s Day, so what to write, what to write? There’s Fragonard’s Progress of Love series at the Frick, commissioned by Madame du Barry,...
Feb 13, 2026One thing that enquiring minds don’t ask anymore is whether the Hispanic Society is worth a visit. Those in the know understand that this unique, fantastic museum in...
Jan 22, 2026Greetings from rainy, snowy, icy, and flu-ish Vermont. Yes, though normally a cheetah dashing from place to place, I was felled, walloped, really, by the flu ten days ago on the...
Jan 2, 2026I’m always chipper around Christmas and New Year’s, times of gift giving, snow, revelation, reflection, and renewal. Revelation isn’t just about prophets...