By Peter Plagens 6/28/04 12:00am

My Roman Holiday: The Eternal CityFinally Works Me Over

Although we’re not talking Jayson Blair–quality malfeasances here, there’s probably something a little fishy about a mature art critic for a major news magazine-I’m Newsweek ‘s art critic-never having set foot in Rome. Now, I’ve never claimed to have interviewed Michelangelo’s surviving relatives or the models who posed for the Sistine Chapel ceiling. But, as Read More

By Hilton Kramer 8/19/02 12:00am

Tiny Medieval Books Of Huge Importance At Public Library

Illuminated manuscripts-or miniatures, as they’re also called-are among the most difficult works of art to show in a public exhibition. Both the diminutive scale of the images and the density of the minutely finished detail require the kind of close, sustained attention we bring to reading a book. Yet security considerations and other precautions make Read More