Some decades ago, as a university student studying in Europe, I stood mesmerized in front of a painting by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) that hung at Tate in London. As a budding aesthete, I had dabbled in watercolors—and it was something … Read More
Less than forty years after its glorious reception at London’s Royal Academy in 1895, Frederic Leighton’s extraordinary painting “Flaming June” fell from favor and disappeared from view—only to be unearthed in 1962 behind a false panel of a mantelpiece in … Read More
For many people, The Frick Collection, located on the Upper East Side in the erstwhile Beaux-Arts mansion of 19th-century tycoon Henry Clay Frick, has long been their “idealized” home away from home: a sanctuary of gracious rooms to which they … Read More
