This is the second part of a 2-part essay on “Aesthetic Chills.” Part 1 is here. In the first part of this essay, I looked at what the conditions are for “aesthetic chills” in general. But since this ...

COLLECTION MATSON Eugene Savage’s painting “Hawaii’s Decisive Hour,” though admirable and innovative from a technical and aesthetic standpoint, is an example of “the commercial exploitation and ...

Ask three historians to define “Art Deco,” and you’ll likely get three varying answers. That’s because Art Deco is many different things to many different people, and its evolution is as unique as its ...

Since the 1980s, the MTA has installed hundreds of site-specific works of art throughout the subway system. These pieces of art have been designed by world-famous artists in order to create a ...

THE magnificent exhibition of classical Japanese painting and sculpture which toured the United States two years ago amazed the American museum public with its revelation of a tradition comparable in ...