The Power and Pathos exhibition of Hellenistic bronzes has moved from the Getty Museum to the National Gallery in Washington - its final stop. If you have the chance, do…
Full disclosure: There is no doubt in my mind that the Obama Administration, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, turned a dangerous situation at Benghazi into a catastrophic one. Given the release of…
This delightful painting is a relatively recent acquisition - too recent to be in my color-plate book of the National Gallery's highlights, so it was a serendipitous discovery when I visited. What…
One of the great delights of wandering a museum in person (rather than online or in a book) is serendipity. I hadn't realized the gilded plaster cast of Sherman's Memorial…
I'll soon be visiting the National Gallery in D.C. for the first time in at least ten years. This batch of must-see favorites are portraits of fascinating women, 15th-19th centuries.…
Over drinks with James Bond, Domino describes her first hero: the sailor whose face appears on Player's Cigarettes. The story she made up about him fills 3 or 4 pages in Thunderball, Ian Fleming's…
The Scots gave us "Hogmanay" (their name for the celebration of New Year's Eve) and Robert Burns, whose version of a Scottish folk song, "Auld Lang Syne," is popular from…
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, museums were built to impress: when you walked into the grand entrance, there would be a moment when you stopped in your…
One of the genres of that reappeared during the Renaissance was portraiture: hundreds of meticulously executed paintings have survived. Sculptured portraits are far fewer, and sculptured portraits with added color are even…
Years ago when I first started to work on Innovators in Painting (it was called the Crash Cruise Course then), I found it difficult to appreciate Raphael. He didn't have Leonardo's…