Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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Meryle Secrest’s Modigliani: A Life:drugs, alcohol, sex, TB, plus fabulous sculptures and paintings.
Christopher Benfey
March 09, 2011 10:21 AM
Cézanne’s card players at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Christopher Benfey
Feb 17, 2011 7:20 AM
John Constable’s cloud obsession on display at the Yale Center for British Art.
Christopher Benfey
Feb 02, 2011 10:10 AM
“The World of Khubilai Khan” at the Met.
Christopher Benfey
Sept 29, 2010 10:37 AM
“Picasso Looks at Degas” at the Clark Art Institute.
Christopher Benfey
June 16, 2010 7:02 AM
Watteau at the Met.
Christopher Benfey
Sept 30, 2009 10:08 AM
Francis Bacon at the Met.
Christopher Benfey
May 27, 2009 7:03 AM
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Pierre Bonnard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Christopher Benfey
Feb 11, 2009 6:53 AM
Andrea Riccio at the Frick.
Christopher Benfey
Nov 26, 2008 12:14 PM
Joan Miró at the Museum of Modern Art.
Christopher Benfey
Nov 05, 2008 4:53 PM
Emily Dickinson’s secret lover.
Christopher Benfey
Oct 09, 2008 11:43 AM
Giorgio Morandi at the Met.
Christopher Benfey
Sept 24, 2008 11:37 AM
“Inaction painters” at the Clark Art Institute.
Christopher Benfey
July 09, 2008 6:58 AM
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Miles Harvey’s Painter in a Savage Land.
Christopher Benfey
June 23, 2008 8:10 AM
Bernd and Hilla Becher at MoMA.
Christopher Benfey
June 04, 2008 7:00 AM
Antonio López García in Boston.
Christopher Benfey
April 30, 2008 6:51 AM
Meissen porcelain at the Frick.
Christopher Benfey
April 02, 2008 7:10 AM
Poussin’s paintings at the Met.
Christopher Benfey
Feb 20, 2008 1:11 PM
Lucian Freud at MoMA.
Christopher Benfey
Dec 19, 2007 7:55 AM
Seurat’s drawings at MoMA.
Christopher Benfey
Oct 31, 2007 11:59 AM
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