A few years ago there was a show called Glitter and Doom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was phenomenal and impacted me a great deal. The work was hard to look at because it included many drawings of disfigured soldiers from World War One, who sold pencils or begged in the streets of [...]
There is a fantastic show at The Morgan Library on Madison Avenue in New York City of; The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, “the most important and lavish of all Dutch manuscripts as well as one of the most beautiful among the Morgan’s collection.” I have long been a big fan of illuminated work from the [...]
Unfortunately, this show has already closed but The Museum of Modern Art, New York, has a neat (if not hard to navigate) website of James Ensor’s work. 1860-1949
The Metropolitan Museum has put on another amazing drawing show. This one is called; Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages. So many things about this show had a great influence on me but I will try to name just a few. The first is the intimacy of the work. Viewers must lean nose-close [...]
