"'This book,' Michael Fried's work opens, 'was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.' Courbet's Reali

"The 76 columns, short reviews, and articles here (many of them abridged by me) are most of what I wrote for 7 Days.... a running chronicle of the art life of a

With its fittingly dramatic design, Courbet and the Modern Landscape accompanies the first major museum exhibition specifically to address Gustave Courbet's ext

In this daylong symposium, a group of international experts and scholars of nineteenth-century art gathered to discuss Courbet's landscape oeuvre and debate his