conversations market insight exhibitions food for thought what's up Hamburger Küste bei Mondschein Friedrich's moonlit seascape and other lessons of the sea observed in Hamburg by novelist Jessi Jezewska Stevens. food for thought - 28.04.2022 Sometimes Something is Simply Extraordinary Theatermaker Elfie Tromp takes us on a wondrous excursion into the new Boijmans Depot. food for thought - 21.03.2022 An Early Modern Encounter with Anicka Yi The conceptual artist's gravity-defying aerobes inspired Lizzie Marx to investigate their connections with the past. food for thought - 28.02.2022 Goya and Baudelaire: Towards the Fall In the wake of Fondation Beyeler's centennial Goya exhibition, Olivier Berggruen reflects on the ambiguity of Goya’s work – caught between the Age of Enlightenment and a Baudelarian idea of modernity. food for thought - 31.01.2022 Art, Nudity and ‘Anti-Nudism’ Curator Mitchell Merling examines prudery through American private collecting of four major erotic paintings that ended up as centerpieces of American museums. food for thought - 12.10.2021 Vivat Victoriana Sparked by memories of her visits to Le Marche in central Italy, V&A curator Emily Knight explores the Victorian fascination with Italian Renaissance paintings manifested in the museum's collection. food for thought - 31.08.2021 A portrait that survives the test of time Scholar of black fashion and visual culture Jonathan M. Square shares his response to an unusual fragment of a painting by Annibale Carracci that depicts an African Woman Holding a Clock. food for thought - 25.06.2021 My Ekphrasis Inspired by his recent visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, poet Richie Hofmann dedicates his new poem, Jupiter, to a painting by Abraham Janssens. food for thought - 27.05.2021 What’s in anonymity? An original study on the market for anonymous 15th and 16th century Flemish paintings, sold between 1946-2015 by Dr. Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker. market insight, food for thought - 26.04.2021 Reading Art Taiwan-born Chinese lyricist and producer Yao Chien opens up about his new-found interest in Old Master paintings that began with books. food for thought - 04.12.2020 On Collecting Poet James Fenton explores the little-known field of Hafner ware as an area of collecting, after rejecting traditional collecting areas such as stamps and medals. food for thought - 17.09.2020 A Typology of Collecting 2.0 Uli Sigg presents a witty analysis of what motivates a collector. food for thought - 07.08.2020 Venice Wandering through the streets of Venice, Ben Street takes us to see a sublime Bellini altarpiece in situ. food for thought - 18.07.2020 On Being an Anti-Racist Preservationist Michael Diaz-Griffith and Mary Wang discuss art in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. food for thought - 26.06.2020 Of Miraculous Art in a Time of Coronavirus Anna Somers Cocks OBE reports on art and life from Turin, where she was sequestered for a while in Spring 2020. food for thought - 06.06.2020 Painters at the Pictures: the Cinema and Artistic Biography David Ekserdjian presents a survey of films about artists. food for thought - 15.05.2020 Counting back from the end Gary Schwartz recalls an emotional journey to the Isle of Bute that inspired his 1993 essay on kunstkamer paintings. food for thought - 24.04.2020 A Reminiscence of Lombard Still Lifes and Dinner with Silvano Lodi in 1982 John Spike recalls dining with one of the greatest collectors of Italian Still Life paintings, Silvano Lodi. food for thought - 02.04.2020