Van Huysum’s are not paintings of flowers in all their transience, but flowers of the curious Now, in all their splendid, bullish brilliance. Jan van Huysum, "Columns Behind and Fruits, including ...
LONDON — “No sooner blown, but blasted.” I am standing on a landing outside a locked gray bedroom door when this phrase swims into my head. It is from a poem written by the English poet John Milton ...