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Art & Architecture

Belle da Costa Greene at The Morgan

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This essay, offered as a blog post for my friends and regular readers, is written as my own tribute to Belle da Costa Greene and, as such, to the Morgan Library and Museum. Such a tribute is highly appropriate at this time in New York, as we are moving into the closing months of one …

Two Surprises at the Kröller-Müller Museum

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The Kröller-Müller Museum, which Andrew and I visited last spring, is a lovely and relatively short drive from Amsterdam. As we see it, an excursion to the Kröller-Müller has to be one of the most rewarding experiences of any European visit. Recognized as having the second-largest Van Gogh collection in the world (the largest being—not …

Elephants Galore

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Until October 20th, we New Yorkers can see a spectacular art installation here in the city. It’s called “The Great Elephant Migration,” and the project features 100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants crafted over the last five years by the Coexistence Collective, a team of 200 Indigenous artisans from Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in South India. I gather from …

Carroll Beckwith’s Portrait of William Walton

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On occasion in these posts, I have had the pleasure of sharing thoughts and comments about a favorite work of art. Such is the case here, as described in the opening pages of the document referred to here. Written for a private organization in New York, the purpose here was to provide historical and background …