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Damage Being Done to Museums in the Nation’s Capital July 15, 2025
It’s funny how you can see things over and over without really seeing them. How many times have I visited the National Gallery of Art over the years? Plenty, but it never struck me until recently that it has a direct and uninterrupted sightline acros...
To the Postbox July 01, 2025
In the middle of March 1931, Virginia Woolf wrote a polite letter to a woman sixteen years her junior. The recipient, a feminist writer named Winifred Holtby, was embarking on a book-length study of Woolf’s work. ‘I should much prefer that the book s...
A Tale of Two Museums December 20, 2024
Not long ago, after a years-long renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its collection of European paintings from the 14th through the 18th centuries. Just a few weeks back, the Brooklyn Museum presented a new hanging of its collection o...
America’s Sweethearts December 06, 2024
For some time, a myth about Magnum Photos swirled around photography circles. It was said that the world’s most prestigious photo agency—founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour—was named after an...
