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It is generally acknowledged that Boucher’s Triumph of Venus, painted in the summer of 1740 for Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, is the artist’s greatest mythological painting.

Fran Lebowitz is the best-selling author of Metropolitan Life, Social Studies, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Lebowitz has made a number of appearances as Judge Janice Goldberg on the television drama Law & Order, and has appe

Harriet Walter is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and has played lead roles in numerous RSC productions. She appears regularly on British television and the West End stage.

Examining drawings from across Piranesi's career, John Marciari, Charles W. Engelhard Curator, will explore the distinctive aspects of Piranesi's graphic style and the use and reuse of drawings in his busy workshop.

The film, An Illuminated Haggadah for the 21st Century was produced to accompany the Rose Haggadah manuscript and to document the process and craft involved in its creation.

Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the first comprehensive museum presentation of the artist’s drawings.

In his fiction Henry James wrote about artists, collectors, and galleries. He was fascinated by painters and paintings and his friends and associates included John La Farge, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Frank Duveneck and William Wetmore Story.

Isabelle de Conihout and John Bidwell

When he was just eleven years old Pedro Corrêa do Lago wrote to ask François Truffaut for his signature and received, by return mail, a book inscribed by the French director. Over the ensuing decades Corrêa do Lago built one of the world’s most compelling collections of its kind.

These newly published letters chronicle the forty year friendship between the playwritght Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, founder of New Directions.