Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.

Recently by Christopher Benfey

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The controversy at Mass MoCA.
Christopher Benfey
Sept 25, 2007 11:39 AM
Dutch art in Gilded Age America.
Christopher Benfey
Sept 17, 2007 2:48 PM
Edmund White’s Hotel de Dream.
Christopher Benfey
Aug 27, 2007 2:20 PM
Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art.
Christopher Benfey
June 06, 2007 7:07 AM
Rothko’s superpricey painting.
Christopher Benfey
May 22, 2007 3:00 PM
Edward Hopper retrospective in Boston.
Christopher Benfey
May 09, 2007 7:20 AM
Van Gogh’s Expressionist legacy.
Christopher Benfey
April 04, 2007 7:20 AM
Daniel Aaron’s The Americanist.
Christopher Benfey
March 28, 2007 11:02 AM
Alexander Nehamas’ Only a Promise of Happiness.
Christopher Benfey
March 13, 2007 2:27 PM
George Stubbs at the Frick.
Christopher Benfey
Feb 21, 2007 7:25 AM
What is Jasper Johns’ work really about?
Christopher Benfey
Jan 31, 2007 7:15 AM
A thousand years of Japanese picture books.
Christopher Benfey
Dec 20, 2006 6:06 AM
Joseph Cornell in Washington.
Christopher Benfey
Nov 29, 2006 11:46 AM
Manet at MoMA.
Christopher Benfey
Nov 08, 2006 7:38 AM
A revolutionary English painter.
Christopher Benfey
Oct 02, 2006 7:41 AM
The mysteries of Ambroise Vollard.
Christopher Benfey
Sept 15, 2006 7:28 AM
The Klimt sale.
Christopher Benfey
June 20, 2006 3:53 PM
Matthew Pearl’s The Poe Shadow.
Christopher Benfey
May 24, 2006 6:08 AM
Monuments at the WTC.
Christopher Benfey
June 16, 2003 4:11 PM
Values, Shmalues
Christopher Benfey
Jan 07, 1999 3:30 AM