In Paris, art gazers have been lining up in droves for “Picasso and the Masters,” this season’s blockbuster show at the Grand Palais. There’s also “Picasso and Manet” at the Orsay and “Picasso and ...
If you can’t get to the National Gallery, and even if you can, the wonders of high definition television allow at least a crude but helpful approximation of the detail and texture, of these ...
“Rembrandt’s Eyes,” by Simon Schama. Alfred A. Knopf. 640 pages. $50. The problem with Rembrandt has always been that precious little is known for sure about the artist’s life. This has left scholarly ...
REMBRANDT’S EYES. Simon Schama. Knopf. $50. 750 pp. Simon Schama’s sumptuous new book on Rembrandt bears about as much resemblance to traditional biographies of the painter as Tristram Shandy and Moby ...
Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation, Rubaiyat Hossain, Abigail Pogson, Martin Green The County & Little Fires Everywhere; The Archers; Víkingur Ólafsson; poetry to console ...
American Public Television (APT) has acquired four titles from BBC Studios, including Mark Gatiss’s drama Ghost Stories, for syndication in the U.S. public television system. APT is also distributing ...
THE Ashmolean Museum’s Young Rembrandt exhibition will be the subject of a new 30-minute BBC Arts film on BBC Four, written and narrated by Professor Sir Simon Schama CBE. The critically acclaimed ...
Senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who has chronicled subjects, including the French Revolution, Rembrandt and America’s place in the world about his latest book, ...
"Art is the enemy of the routine, the mechanical and the humdrum. It stops us in our tracks with a high voltage jolt of disturbance; it reminds us of what humanity can do beyond the daily grind. It ...