John Dorfman
It is one of the most indelible images of modern warfare: Five Vietnamese children run toward the camera, their faces contorted by pain and fear. Dark clouds of smoke hover in the background, as…
Nestled in the sagebrush-dusted mountains of northern New Mexico, more than 5,000 feet above sea level, is a small, quaint city constructed mainly of adobe and dating back to 1607 that just happens…
This past February, the Art Institute of Chicago became the recipient of a transformational gift, approximately 2,250 works of French art spanning the 16th through 19th centuries, said to be the…
A fascinating exhibition at the Tate Modern in London reflected on the history of art and electronics before the advent of the internet. Electric Dreams not only showcases multimedia works…
Last summer, a small American museum made history by becoming the first institution in the country to return one of the fabled Benin bronzes. Officials of the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of…
In 1943, the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García sketched a map of South America with the continent turned upside down, so that its southern tip was at the top, marked “South Pole.” Titled …
Born in England, formed as a surrealist in Paris, residing in Mexico since 1942, Leonora Carrington had her first solo exhibition in New York in 1948. It was held at the Pierre Matisse Gallery,…
