In 2023 I went to the French towns of Amiens and Bourges to do some research on cathedrals for certain scenes in Dear Monica Lewinsky. I had already written most of the novel; a lot of it was based on some scholarship I've done, reading books, and memories of my own study abroad program in France in the 1990s.
El ano del hambre de Madrid shows a group of emaciated, dying madrilenos nobly refusing the bread offered to them by French soldiers, demonstrating a perfect, if terminal, patriotism.
Gladys Hynes was a protean rebel slaloming through early 20th-century Britain's avant-garde circles, training as a landscape and figure painter and later designing for Omega Workshops.
The glass negatives have tremendous documentary value—not only for the museum and the collection itself but also for the public. They provide a crucial visual record of significant artworks that were lost.
"What was apparent was the values and gains that came from breaking down silos," says Britt Salvesen, the head of the museum's departments of photography and prints and drawings.
George Costakis spent three decades hunting down, and saving, thousands of Russian and Soviet avant-garde works of art-at a time when they were hidden, vilified by the state and at risk of disappearing into history.
Curt Goldschmidt's fate is shared with many Jewish collectors and patrons. With this restitution, we honour Jewish collectors and remember victims of Nazi persecution.
"We look at Europe in a global context and we like to highlight the ways that European artists and collectors traveled and traded with the world. Part of that is representing the people who lived in Europe but came from abroad," Adam Harris Levine, associate curator of European art at the AGO, said over email.
Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist famously known for his color field technique created the painting titled 'Thru the Window.'
In Braque's paintings, collages, and prints, the polymath set out to distill bucolic landscapes and rural village scenes as broken up and then re-assembled geometric compositions; decidedly abstract yet still slightly recognizable representations. Through this revolutionary approach, he examined how objects could be depicted from multiple perspectives-multiple sources of light-as if superimposed portrayals of the same setting rendered at different times of day.
Born in Paris in 1936 to German-Jewish parents who fled the Nazis, his family survived the war in hiding in south-western France. Rosenberg first arrived at the Louvre in 1962, at the invitation of Charles de Gaulle's minister of culture, later heading up the department of paintings during the museum's dramatic relaunch in the 1980s and early 90s, symbolised by the 1989 completion of I.M. Pei's sculptural entrance, the Louvre Pyramid.
