The Golden Age at its best
From NYRB, the Golden Age at its best: A review of Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals; The Rembrandt Book by Gary Schwartz; and Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master's Portraits by Michael Taylor. The American appetite for Dutch painting: Christopher Benfey on the allure of conspicuous consumption. Mess MoCA: An artist and a museum fight over a work of art. From Sign and Sight, building on the past: Peter Zumthor's new art museum in Cologne is magnificently successful, in terms of both material presence and dignified handling of the past. Does art have a place in hospitals? Grayson Perry investigates. A review of Art and Photography by David Campany.
