In the history of modern art, nothing dates more rapidly than audacity. Every fresh shock marks a new beginning for a rising generation eager to overtake established elders. The art that challenges orthodoxy in one generation is embraced as a classic by the next and soon absorbed into the realm of established convention. As a Read More
In the summer of 1949, a 22-year-old graduate student from the University of Chicago arrived in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Sorbonne. His name was Herbert Lust, a self-described “farm boy from Indiana” who had been orphaned at the age of nine. “I was at that time among the top scholars Read More
About the 19th-century French painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), whose work is currently the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two things are likely to be known even by people who are unfamiliar with the artist’s pictures. One is that he was the teacher of Henri Matisse and certain other Fauvist painters. Read More
