12/27/2013 Greek Revival In English for the first time, Giacomo Leopardi’s extraordinary 19th century diary Zibaldone is an unexpected window on the American relationship with the ancient world. by Nathaniel Popkin §
12/20/2013 Burn the Paintings Is iconoclasm anything more than the senseless destruction of art? by James Polchin §
12/18/2013 Inside the the Régie d’Opium In French Indochina in 1925, Harry Hervey examines men in their worst role: that of an altruist. An excerpt from the newly released by Harry Hervey §
11/25/2013 In the Buff The naked woman in art isn’t unusual, but we have trouble viewing the male body as a sexual, or artistic, object. by James Polchin §