100 key writings from spanning across thirty years of the acclaimed New Yorker art critic's career. Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 100 key writings by Peter Schjeldahl spinning thirty years, his last twenty as the art critic of the New Yorker. In this unfailingly lucid guide to an art world in constant, dramatic flux, Schjeldahl addresses new artists and Old Masters with the same pitch of acuity, empathy, and wit. No other writer enhances the reader's...

"Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists--from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the...

Rhyming text and photographs show that art is much more than just what can be hung on a wall or set on a pedestal.

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....

Encourages young readers to explore objects of art along with concepts such as clocks, time, music, mirrors, collecting, trust, movement, line, and shape, and explains how great artists used these themes to create their works.

"This unique book was created with a global team of specialists in all fields of art, including museum curators and educators, who have collected together important works as they might be displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover... Features 992 oversized pages of nearly 2,700 works of art"--Publisher.

Tiny red people create a picture in formation for Boom the giant. The picture becomes more and more detailed until he can guess what it is. This episode's picture is a fork.

Tiny red people create a picture in formation for Boom the giant. The picture becomes more and more detailed until he can guess what it is. This episode's picture is a bow.

Tiny red people create a picture in formation for Boom the giant. The picture becomes more and more detailed until he can guess what it is. This episode's picture is a spoon.