Tag: Paintings

Van Gogh and Me

Last November my grandmother was visiting and wanted to do something fun. Instead of fun, my mother dragged us to the traveling “Beyond Van Gogh” exhibit that was…

Fish and Place in Barbados

This mid-20th century oil painting, titled “Fishermen Mending Nets” by the artist Charles Poyer, depicts an elderly man repairing fishing nets by hand with tools located in a…

Nighthawks at the Museum

Answering the question whether a humanities moment looks different across generations, David Denby shares an example of such a moment he and his son experienced together at the…

On First Encountering Francis Bacon’s Paintings

The disturbing art of Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon often violates formal boundaries of the human. Consequently, a visit to a retrospective of Bacon’s work at the Hirschhorn…

“I was dragged, kicking and screaming, to a van Gogh exhibition”

In what I believe was the latter part of the 1980s, I was dragged, kicking and screaming, to a van Gogh exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. And for…