
Here’s Looking at Yew
In the English garden, eccentricity and variety went hand in hand.
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries
by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
April 6, 2023 issue
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James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999 he was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2015 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He is the author of School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts and, most recently, Yellow Tulips: Poems, 1968–2011. (April 2023)
Here’s Looking at Yew
In the English garden, eccentricity and variety went hand in hand.
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries
by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
April 6, 2023 issue
What He Saw in a Dream
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect
an exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, December 11, 2018–March 31, 2019; the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, October 4, 2019–January 5, 2020; and the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, January 31–September 13, 2020
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Bâtisseur de Fantasmes
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Laurent Baridon, Jean-Philippe Garric, and Martial Guédron, with the collaboration of Corinne Le Bitouzé
May 14, 2020 issue
The Art of Combat
The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 7, 2019–January 5, 2020
The Renaissance of Etching
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 23, 2019–January 20, 2020; and the Albertina Museum, Vienna, February 12–May 10, 2020
March 12, 2020 issue
Nasty & Nice
Bouguereau and America
an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, February 15–May 12, 2019; the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, June 22–September 22, 2019; and the San Diego Museum of Art, November 9, 2019–March 15, 2020
May 9, 2019 issue
A Spitting Image
‘Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)’ at the Met Breuer
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)
an exhibition at the Met Breuer, New York City, March 21–July 22, 2018
July 19, 2018 issue
The Bishop’s Elders of Israel
Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle
an exhibition at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, September 17, 2017–January 7, 2018; and the Frick Collection, New York City, January 31–April 22, 2018
April 5, 2018 issue
The Master of Wonder House
John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London
an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City, September 15, 2017—January 7, 2018
March 22, 2018 issue
Moses in Mexico
On Cristobal de Villalpando’s altarpiece
Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque
an exhibition at the Palacio de Cultura Citibanamex–Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, March 9–June 4, 2017; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, July 25–October 15, 2017
October 12, 2017 issue
Learning to Love French Art
America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 21–August 20, 2017
August 17, 2017 issue
The Disasters of War
The Great War in American art and literature
World War I and American Art
an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, November 4, 2016–April 9, 2017; the New-York Historical Society, New York City, May 26–September 3, 2017; and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, October 6, 2017–January 21, 2018
The Art of Devastation: Medals and Posters of the Great War
an exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, January 27–April 9, 2017
World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It
edited by A. Scott Berg
May 25, 2017 issue
Van Dyck: ‘The Great Power of Execution’
Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture
an exhibition at the Frick Collection, New York City, March 2–June 5, 2016
May 12, 2016 issue
The Rothschild Taste
They like to do things well, but they prefer to do them really really well
The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor
by Mrs. James de Rothschild
Personal Characteristics from French History
by Ferdinand Rothschild
The Salon Doré from the Hôtel de la Trémoille
edited by Martin Chapman
Paintings: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
by Ellis Waterhouse
Sculpture: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
by Terence Hodgkinson
Architecture and Panelling: The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor
by Bruno Pons
The Savonnerie: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
by Pierre Verlet
Sacred Stitches: Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
by Rachel Boak
Drawings for Architecture Design and Ornament: The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor
by Alastair Laing and others
Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
by Juliet Carey
A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest
by Dora Thornton
June 25, 2015 issue
The Abbey That Jumped the Shark
Is 'Downton Abbey' great television?
Downton Abbey
a television series created by Julian Fellowes
Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid’s Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
by Margaret Powell
March 8, 2012 issue
Two Kinds of Magic
Zarkana
a show by Cirque du Soleil, written and directed by François Girard
A Magic Flute
directed by Peter Brook
August 18, 2011 issue
The Saints Take Broadway
The Book of Mormon
a musical by Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone, directed by Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw
July 14, 2011 issue
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