The Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Other Reflections on Art at the Frick | Michaelyn Mitchell
Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection as seen through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists, and other cultural figures. A cultural haven for museumgoers in New York and beyond, The Frick Collection holds masterpieces by some of the most celebrated artists in the western tradition--among them Bellini, Gainsborough, Goya, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Whistler--installed in a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue. This book includes sixty reflections on the Frick's preeminent collection, with the contributors writing about an artwork that has personal significance, sharing how it has moved, challenged, puzzled, or inspired them. Each text is accompanied by an illustration of the artwork. Among the book's contributors are Roz Chast, Lena Dunham, Abbi Jacobson, Duane Michals, Vik Muniz, Catherine Opie, and Colm Tóibín. For example, writer Jonathan Lethem tells how he started going to the Frick as a teenager, skipping classes to gaze at Hans Holbein's portraits of Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More. Historian Simon Schama revels in Turner's Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning, which reminds him of his own childhood growing up next to the River Thames. This engaging anthology attests to the inspirational power of art and reminds us that there is no one way to look.
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