Articles with keyword "Art"
Conversation
The Artist as Showman
Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the "gorgeous creatures" of modernism, and much else.
Feature
Audubon the Writer
The celebrated bird portraitist was also a great artist of the written word.
Curio
Le Baiser
Felix Nadar’s gelatin silver print on paper of Sarah Bernhardt in Le Baiser is among the holdings of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Curio
Third Time's the Charm
When Charles Willson Peale painted former enslaved African American and Georgetown resident Yarrow Mamout in 1819, he was interested in his storied longevity.
Conversation
Unlimited Partnership
Chairman Bruce Cole talks with Thomas Saunders, Wall Street titan-turned-philanthropist, and his irrepressible wife, Jordan.
Feature
British Modernism’s Many Manners
The Bloomsbury group broke ties with Victorian ideals and reimagined British art.