by Ben Lima | 18 July 2010 | Uncategorized
Recently in the press:
- The Education of the Virgin (c. 1617), in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, has been reattributed by curator John Marciari to Velázquez. See Marciari’s article in Ars Magazine (full text not online); The Guardian; Los Angeles Times; El Pais.
- “Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings” at the British Museum, reviewed by James Hall in the TLS
- On Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks: Jonathan Jones in the Guardian
- On connoisseurship and the controversial “forensic art expert” Peter Paul Biro: David Grann in the New Yorker (16000 words)
- Also on connoisseurship and attribution: “Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries,” an exhibition at the National Gallery (London) reviewed by the Economist and by Peter Campbell in the LRB
- Photography: book reviews of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Andy Grundberg’s essay collection Crisis of the Real: Jackie Wullschlager in the Finanical Times
- On Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, in the Economist
- Kevin Starr, Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Bridge, reviewed by Herbert Gold in the WSJ
