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On September 7, 1950, the government of East Germany detonated a set of dynamite charges beneath Berlin's old imperial palace, the first of a series of controlled explosions that in [...]

It is curious that few good films have been made about creative artists. To be sure, there is no end to potboilers about Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, and Michelangelo, [...]

The article focuses on the impact of three American architects—Richard Morris Hunt, H. H. Richardson, and Louis Sullivan—who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and shaped post–Civil War American architecture. Topics include the evolving perception of Victorian architecture, the rigorous training and influence of the École on these architects, and the broader cultural significance of their work compared to literary and technological contemporaries.

One has to be of a certain age to know the meaning of the phrase 'the unwritten law.' Made quaint by the sexual revolution, this was the unspoken understanding that [...]

John le Carre died at the age of eighty-nine last December, a good thirty years after the end of the Cold War that his spy novels chronicled. He certainly knew [...]

This fall gave us our first look at Frank Gehry's ambitious remodeling of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on which the architect has been toiling for more than a decade. [...]

Why memorize a 426-line German poem? Is wounded pride reason enough? A year or so ago, I was speaking with a couple of students about poetry, and I proposed that [...]

One can enjoy an exhibition while rejecting its central premise, as one must when the art on the walls does not support that premise. 'From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: [...]

The Pennsylvania Station in New York Is like some vast basilica of old That towers above the terror of the dark As bulwark and protection to the soul. --Langston Hughes [...]

It is no tragedy to the at the age of ninety-seven, as Vincent Scully did last November, certainly not after a life as full and accomplished as his. He was [...]

It is a perfectly natural impulse for us to wish the house of a cherished writer to illuminate his works. We are strangely pleased to visit the various houses where [...]

It is an irresistibly attractive idea to think that art develops much as do living things, through an inevitable cycle of growth, maturity, and decay. This is stylistic evolution, as [...]

It is one of history's cheekier pranks that the first architect ever to appear on television was that thirty-year-old prodigy with the moviestar face, Albert Speer. Nazi Germany was the [...]

In 1954, writing as art critic for The Nation, my late colleague Lane Faison described a memorable evening with a party of art students summering in Vermont. They were suitably [...]

Is there anything so invisible as that which was fashionable the day before yesterday? This is the blind spot through which every work of art and literature must pass before [...]

If you hurry, you might catch one last look at the Folk Art Museum, that moody performance in white bronze and beton brut that made instant architectural celebrities out of [...]

Technically speaking, the term 'New York Public Library' refers to the four research libraries and eighty-seven branch libraries--forty-four in Manhattan alone--that comprise the city's vast and enviable library system. But [...]

If ever a man was a 'rogue architect,' to use the amiable phrase of H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, surely it was Frank Furness (1839-1912), who gave us some of the brawniest [...]

Mr. Bellows with his palette and brush and a piece of canvas ... evokes it all out of the inner intuition which is deeper and finer than all the schools [...]

Alfred Hitchcock was famous for insisting that the cinema was a visual art, which was at its best when it told stories by means of images and not words. He [...]

The new century has not seen a golden age of art so far, but there has been one bright spot: the campaign of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to rehang [...]

The author reviews the architectural design of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a project conceived by the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

The article discusses the American experience and legacy of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Topics addressed include how technology allows for collective human experiences, the 2002 bronze sculpture "Tumbling Woman" by Eric Fischl in relation to the attacks, designs for the designs for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and September 11 Memorial in New York City by architects including Daniel Libeskind, and American nationalism in films and architecture.

The article focuses on the contributors of the American art history in the U.S. William H. Pierson, Lane Faison and Whitney Stoddard, the art history professors at William College were labeled as the Holy Trinity because of their contributions to the cohort of museum directors. Their knowledge on art history have been passed on to their students since the lessons incorporate the history of western culture, classical antiquity to present, and painting.

The article features McKim, Mead & White, the architectural firm founded in 1879 by Charles F. McKim, William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White. Among the firm's works are the Boston Public Library in Massachusetts, Morgan Library in New York and the Pennsylvania Station. The company is known for the architectural fashions of the three founders.