Lady Liberty’s Father
“Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbor; relieve the poor […]
Tag Archives: Bronze
The Bethesda Angel, Its Lesbian Connection
“All had expected something great, something of angelic power and beauty and when a feebly-pretty idealess thing of bronze was revealed the revulsion of feeling was painful. The figure resembles […]
Tiffany Lamps for a Tiffany Birthday
“Beauty is what nature has lavished upon us as a supreme gift.” —Louis Comfort Tiffany (18.February.1848–1933) Happy birthday to Louis Comfort Tiffany! Today marks the 171st anniversary of his birth. […]
World War I Memorials, Part Four
“My wish has been to send light into the darkness of men’s hearts, and to be the servant of a noble purpose . . . art is not a vague […]
“Atlas” at Rockefeller Center
“That great giant, Atlas, whose shoulders bear the circling sky.” —from “Metamorphoses,” A.D. 8, by Ovid Directly across Fifth Avenue from the seat of the archbishop of the Archdiocese of […]
‘Standing Lincoln’ at The Met
“Lincoln stood tall in the carriage, his dark uncovered head bent in contemplative acknowledgment of the waiting people.” —Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln. […]
Tom Otterness’ “Rolling Penny”
“I learnt sculpture by myself. I studied as a painter when I first came to New York. I didn’t go to college; I went to art school for a couple […]
