Book Review: The Collector of Lives
/Giorgio Vasari, the author of a fundamental and beloved collection of the lives of Renaissance artists, here gets a lively and readable biography of his own.
Read MoreGiorgio Vasari, the author of a fundamental and beloved collection of the lives of Renaissance artists, here gets a lively and readable biography of his own.
Read MoreThe legendary avant-garde sculptor Alexander Calder gets his very first biography, written by art critic Jed Perl
Read MoreA terrific new book tells the story of what happens when a hardy company takes the world's most famous play to every country on Earth.
Read MoreThe magnificent catalogue from Yale University Press of the paintings and drawing of John Singer Sargent comes to its conclusion with volume IX
Read MoreThe only reverse-canonization ever performed was by Pius II in 1462, against his hated enemy Sigismondo Malatesta. A new book tells the fascinating story of this "precursor of the Antichrist."
Read MoreNovelist Julian Barnes takes readers on a tour of some of his favorite French artists
Read MoreThis is a place for all of my writing about books.