So it is now nearly two weeks since I trundled off to the Louvre of an evening to see the “Venice Show”, here officially entitled “Titien—Tintoret—Véronese: Rivalités à Venise [Paris, the Louvre, 17 September 2009 until 4 January 2010]. It had not been all that easy to get convenient tickets.

The contemporary program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is living proof of the timelessness of art and of the electricity that runs between old and new art.  Established in 1992 by director Anne Hawley, the program serves not only as a counterpoint to Mrs. Gardner’s legacy but also as a continuation of the [...]

Hannah Barrett is a Brooklyn-based painter, whose work reassembles elements from Old Masters portraiture and other sources to, in her words, “create portraiture that deviates from the conventional male or female, and to explore the resulting pictorial and conceptual possibilities. reflects on  “The Golden Age of Seascapes,” now on view at the Peabody Essex [...]

Tintoretto, “Susannah and the Elders”

Less than a month remains to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, one of the finest collections of Venetian painting ever assembled in this country. Rivals next stop is the Louvre. As a contemporary painter accustomed to stripped-down art, [...]

Amidst US economic decline, a look at the changing momentum in collecting in the high-end international art market.