John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
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A Wee Irish Suite
October 23, 2008
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Splendid Lies
August 14, 2008
J.M.W. Turner
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, February 10–May 18, 2008; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 24–September 21, 2008
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‘The Clarity of Things’
June 26, 2008
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Nocturnes
January 17, 2008
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
Catalog of the exhibition by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff, and Richard Thomson
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Gold & Geld
December 20, 2007
Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others.
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The Purest of Styles
November 22, 2007
Vincent van Gogh—Painted with Words: The Letters to Émile Bernard
Catalog of the exhibition by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker
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Serra’s Triumph
July 19, 2007
Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
Catalog of the exhibition by Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke
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Frankie Laine (1913–2007)
May 31, 2007
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After Katrina
November 30, 2006
New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
After the Flood
by Robert Polidori, with an introduction by Jeff L. Rosenheim
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The Artful Clarks
October 5, 2006
The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings
Catalog of the exhibition by Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent, and others.
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The Artist as Prospector
August 10, 2006
Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape
Catalog of the exhibition by Gail S. Davidson, Floramae McCarron-Cates,Barbara Bloemink, Sarah Burns, and Karal Ann Marling
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Lucian Freud
May 25, 2006
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Love of Fact
March 23, 2006
Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church
Catalog of the exhibit by Kevin J. Avery, with anintroduction by John Wilmerding
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Determined Spirit
December 1, 2005
Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings
Catalog of the exhibition by Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heughten, and Marije Vellekoop
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Beyond Real
May 26, 2005
Max Ernst: A Retrospective
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald
Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle
by Robert McNab, with a preface by Werner Spies
Surrealism USA
Catalog of the exhibitionedited by Isabelle Dervaux
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The Blessings of the Sun
May 12, 2005
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Making Faces
December 2, 2004
Gilbert Stuart
Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles
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Libido Lite
November 18, 2004
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Street Arab
July 15, 2004
Childe Hassam, American Impressionist
Catalog of the exhibition edited by H. Barbara Weinberg
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Chasing After Providence
December 4, 2003
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Singular in Everything
November 6, 2003
El Greco
catalog of the exhibition edited by David Davies, with essays by Davies and John H. Elliott and contributions by Xavier Bray, Keith Christiansen, Gabriele Finaldi, Marcus Burke, and Lois Oliver
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Logic Is Beautiful
June 12, 2003
Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life
Catalog of the exhibitionby Barbara Haskell
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‘A Lone Left Thing’
February 27, 2003
Marsden Hartley
Catalog of the exhibition edited byElizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912–1915
edited by James Timothy Voorhies
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O Beautiful for Spacious Skies
August 15, 2002
American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880
Catalog of the exhibition by Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer
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New Kind on the Block
February 14, 2002
New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890–1940 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price
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The Thing Itself
November 29, 2001
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints catalog of the exhibition edited by Nadine M. Orenstein, with additional contributions by Manfred Sellink, Jürgen Müller, Michiel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, and Larry Silver
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Hawthorne Down on the Farm
August 9, 2001
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A Missing ‘S’
July 5, 2001
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The Imaginary Builder
June 21, 2001
Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy
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‘Therefore I Print’
May 17, 2001
William Blake
William Blake Catalog of the exhibition by Robin Hamlyn and Michael Phillips, with introductory essays by Peter Ackroyd and Marilyn Butler
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Lear, Far and Near
January 11, 2001
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel catalog of the exhibition by Scott Wilcox, with contributions by Eva Bowerman, Clay Dean, Morna O'Neill, Stephen Vella, and Emily Weeks.
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 20, 2000–January 14, 2001
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Dürer and Christ
November 2, 2000
Dürer’s Passions September 9-December 3, 2000 by an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts,, album of the exhibition, with a separately bound essay Jordan Kantor, foreword by Joseph Leo Koerner
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Dancing to His Own Tune
October 19, 2000
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‘Nature Itself’
August 10, 2000
Chardin 27-September 3, 2000.
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre Rosenberg, with essays by Rosenberg, Colin B. Bailey, René Démoris, Marie-Laure de Rochebrune and Antoine Schnap
Chardin: An Intimate Art
by Hélène Prigent, by Pierre Rosenberg
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A Wistful Master
April 13, 2000
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages October 3, 1999-January 9, 2000; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 10-May 14, 2000. Yale University Press)
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,, Catalog of the exhibition by Julien Chapuis
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On ‘The Portrait of a Lady’
December 2, 1999
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Evangel of the Lens
August 12, 1999
Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings
second edition, edited by Sarah Greenough, by Juan Hamilton, with an introduction by Sarah Greenough
Stieglitz, O’Keeffe & American Modernism Connecticut, April 16-July 11, 1999. by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, by Amy Ellis, with Maura Lyons. Catalog of an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
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On Saul Steinberg (1914–1999)
June 24, 1999
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Slight Revision
March 4, 1999
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More Light on Delft
February 18, 1999
Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684 1998-February 27, 1999.
an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, December 17,, Catalog of the exhibition by Peter C. Sutton
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One Cheer for Literary Biography
February 4, 1999
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Jackson Whole
December 3, 1998
Jackson Pollock 1998-February 2, 1999; Tate Gallery, London, March 11-June 6, 1999.
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 1,, Catalog of the exhibition by Kirk Varnedoe, with Pepe Karmel
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Funny Faces
June 25, 1998
Celebrity Caricature in America April 10-August 23, 1998.
byan exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Catalog of the exhibition by Wendy Wick Reaves
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Pioneer
March 5, 1998
Arthur Dove: A Retrospective 1998-April 12, 1998. byan exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 15, Catalog of the exhibition by Debra Bricker Balken, with William C. Agee, by Elizabeth Hutton Turner
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Can Genitals Be Beautiful?
December 4, 1997
Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, October 12, 1997-January 4, 1998., Catalog of the exhibition by Magdalena Dabrowski, by Rudolf Leopold
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Not a Seducer
September 25, 1997
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On ‘The Seducer’s Diary’
May 29, 1997
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Bridges to the Invisible
November 28, 1996
Max Beckmann in Exile 1997 Barbara Stehlé-Akhtar, Reinhard Spieler, Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann, and Eric Fischl. exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo October 9, 1996-January 5,. Catalog of the exhibition with contributions by Matthew Drutt,
Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950 by Max Beckmann, edited and translated by Barbara C. Buenger
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The Ache in Eakins
August 8, 1996
Thomas Eakins:The Rowing Pictures 23-September 29, 1996; The Yale University Art Gallery, October 11, 1996-January 14, 1997; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 15-May 15, 1997. exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, D. C., June, Catalog of the exhibition by Helen A. Cooper, with contributions by Martin A. Berger, by Christina Currie, by Amy B. Werbel
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An Honest Eye
December 21, 1995
John Singleton Copley in America 26, 1995January 7, 1996. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September, Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora, by Paul Staiti, by Erica E. Hirshler, by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., by Carol Troyen, with contributions by Morrison H. Heckscher, by Aileen Ri
John Singleton Copley in England 1995January 7, 1996. an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, October 11,, Catalog of the exhibition by Emily Ballew Neff, with an essay by William L. Pressly
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Archer’s Way
November 30, 1995
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Hopper’s Polluted Silence
August 10, 1995
Edward Hopper and the American Imagination 22October 15 an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June
Edward Hopper and the American Imagination catalog of the exhibition by Deborah Lyons, by Adam D. Weinberg. edited by Julie Grau, with contributions by fourteen others
Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin
Edward Hopper’s New England by Carl Little
Hopper by Mark Strand
Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné edited by Gail Levin
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Nadar’s Swift Tact
May 25, 1995
Nadar 14-July 9, 1995 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April
Nadar catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg, by Françoise Heilbrun, by Philippe Néagu, with contributions by Sylvie Aubenas, by André Jammes, by Ulrich Keller, by Sophie Rochard, by André Rouillé
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Heade Storms
January 12, 1995
Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 4, 1994January 8, 1995
Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Cash, technical notes by Claire M. Barry
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Beyond the Picturesque
June 23, 1994
American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 18851915 10July 24, 1994 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May
American Impressionism and Realism: Drawings, Prints, and Photographs 3July 24, 1994 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May
American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 18851915 catalog of the exhibition by H. Barbara Weinberg et al.
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Degas Out of Doors
March 24, 1994
Degas Landscapes 21April 3, 1994, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 24July 3, 1994 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January
Degas Landscapes catalog of the exhibition by Richard Kendall
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Big, Bright & Bendayed
December 16, 1993
Roy Lichtenstein 8, 1993January 16, 1994 an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York October
Roy Lichtenstein catalog of the exhibition by Diane Waldman
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The Lean and Optical Dane
May 13, 1993
Christen Koobke
by Sanford Schwartz
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Pilgrim’s Progress
December 3, 1992
The Discovery of America by Saul Steinberg
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Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit
March 7, 1991
The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR 23March 31, 1991 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York January
The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR (paper, distributed by Abrams) catalog of the exhibition by Robert Rosenblum, by Boris I. Asvarishch, edited by Sabine Rewald
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koerner
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Better Than Nature
November 8, 1990
The Art of Albert Pinkham Ryder 1991 an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum September 21, 1990January 7,
Albert Pinkham Ryder catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Broun
Albert Pinkham Ryder by William Innes Homer, by Lloyd Goodrich
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The Passion of Graham Greene
August 16, 1990
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‘A Sort of Intimate Whirlwind’
June 28, 1990
The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum May 18 to July 30, 1990
The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Wynne Easton
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‘Indian Summer’
March 29, 1990
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Rereading ‘Indian Summer’
February 1, 1990
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‘The Scandal of Ulysses’: An Exchange
August 18, 1988
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The Writer Lectures
June 16, 1988
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The Illustrative Itch
April 10, 1986
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The Artist and His Audience
July 18, 1985
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The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski
October 11, 1984
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The Parajanov Case
March 18, 1982
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Death in Iran
August 13, 1981
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On Hawthorne’s Mind
March 19, 1981
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Professor Nabokov
September 25, 1980
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Saint of the Mundane
May 18, 1978
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Walt Whitman: Ego and Art
February 9, 1978
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Detained in Ghana
March 4, 1976
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Soviet Inhumanity
June 27, 1974
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Committee in Defense of Andrei Amalrik
July 19, 1973