Facebook Twitter Mail to Print page Subscribe to our Newsletters Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest Email* InterestsNews about upcoming issues, contributors, special events, online features, and more. The New York Review of Books: recent articles and content from nybooks.com The Reader's Catalog and NYR Shop: gifts for readers and NYR merchandise offers New York Review Books: news and offers about the books we publish HiddenOpt In I consent to having NYR add my email to their mailing list. HiddenForm Source CAPTCHA Δ Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com More by Huguette Martel An Artist’s Menagerie November 11, 2018 November 11, 2018 Facebook Twitter Mail to Print page More by Huguette Martel An Artist’s Menagerie November 11, 2018 November 11, 2018 Huguette Martel
Molly Crabapple ‘The Fatal Conscience’: Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico’s Greatest Poet Puerto Rico’s most famous poet and greatest literary figure, Julia de Burgos is as significant a cultural figure for the island commonwealth as the artist Frida Kahlo is for Mexico. April 26, 2018
Jenny Uglow The Reflected Glory of Victorian Art Why do mirrors appear so often in Victorian paintings? “Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites” suggests an answer. April 8, 2018
Dash Shaw Grown Men Reading ‘Nancy’ As Bill Griffith wrote of the famous comic strip, “Nancy doesn’t tell us much about what it’s like to be a kid. What Nancy tells us is what it’s like to be a comic strip.” March 17, 2018
Ingrid D. Rowland 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
