The following is an expanded version of a lecture delivered in the early 2000s.
When I was a kid of seven or eight, there was a TV show called Ripley’s Believe It or Not! I remember…
Longtime art critic for Time magazine Robert Hughes died yesterday in New York City, after what his wife, Doris Downes, characterized as a long illness.
The interpretation of sexual symbols in art is everywhere. But what we view as erotic often tells us less about the artists than it does about our own sensibilities.