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A Magician in Pigment

Titian was a painter of astonishing versatility, a master of landscape, of portraiture, of sacred painting, historical painting, mythology, a magician who could turn a dab of pigment into a flame, a pleat, a thunderbolt, a twinkle in the eye, a Cupid’s wing.

November 8, 2013

Sanford Schwartz

Luc Tuymans: A Retrospective

In “Gray Magic,” from the February 11 issue of The New York Review, Sanford Schwartz writes about the Luc Tuymans retrospective, which will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 6 to May 2. (It originated at the Wexner Center for the Arts in…

January 22, 2010

Michael Shae

Houdon’s Sensuous Sculpture

In “The Best Faces of the Enlightenment,” from the April 8 issue of The New York Review, Willibald Sauerländer writes about a new exhibition of the work of Jean-Antoine Houdon, whom he calls “the last and probably greatest French sculptor of the eighteenth century.” In his works—a selection of which…

March 19, 2010

David Levine

David Levine: A Slide Show

January 8, 2010

Sasha Weiss

David Levine: An Audio Portrait

In September 2008, fifteen months before he died, David Levine met with New York Review editor Sasha Weiss at his apartment in Brooklyn to talk about his caricatures. Over a period of more than four decades, he made some 3,800 drawings for the Review, ranging from Albert Camus in 1963 to…

February 16, 2010

Liana Finck

The Artist’s Closet

Every Friday night I go to the Met to draw.

July 21, 2017

Nick Brandt

Portraits from a Parched Land

Among the wild animals of East Africa.

April 6, 2010

Ian Buruma

The Coca-Colonization of Japan

Shomei Tomatsu was fifteen when Japan was defeated and the US troops arrived, casually tossing sticks of gum and chocolates at the children running after their jeeps. Occupation was the title he chose for the pictures he took around the US base towns in Japan and Okinawa.

October 24, 2014