Curve, Peak, Pit, and Channel

Some dozen of the extant Pieter Bruegel the Elder paintings, a clear plurality, belong to the Vienna Kunsthistorisches1. As an earlier post related, MPW’s visit to the institution coincided with an Ed Ruscha-curated exhibition, for which Ruscha had cherry-picked two

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At the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in a room nestled amidst two rooms filled with Rubens, the “Van Eyke room”, and the “Pieter Breugel the Elder room,” this large painting by the lesser-known Flemish painter, Jodocus de Winghe, could be

The Past is Always a Step Ahead

I tend to talk a lot when I get excited. I often get excited when looking at art. This makes me not always the best of museum- or gallery-going companions, as sometimes I get to talking without really realizing other