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The Crafting of an Art Critic

by Michael Glover July 11, 2020November 5, 2020

How did I learn to judge between one work and another? By looking and reading and looking and reading and looking.

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A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019

by Michael Glover November 30, 2019

Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.

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The Polymathic Mind of John Ruskin

by Mark Scroggins November 30, 2019

Ruskin was captivated with more than just art and architecture. He wrote at some length on geology, mythology, crystallography, ornithology, herpetology — and who knows what else.

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Updating Ruskin’s Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene

by Marjorie Backman July 2, 2018July 3, 2018

New York University’s Grey Gallery takes on the concept of the sublime in contemporary landscape art.

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The Romantic Symbolism of Trees

by Allison Meier June 10, 2014June 13, 2014

The Romantic landscape artists of the 18th and 19th century were so obsessed with nature and the skies above that in 1856 critic John Ruskin called the frenzy “modern-day cloud worship.”

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