The big picture.

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• Several Hundred Years of Solitude Japanese art before Commodore Perry.
  Christopher Benfey Dec. 2, 1998
  
• Camera Obscura Degas' funereal photography.
  Christopher Benfey Oct. 21, 1998
  
• Poetry of the Ordinary Van Gogh is less strange than you think. And more so.
  Christopher Benfey Oct. 7, 1998
  
• Still Waters Monet's late works run surprisingly deep.
  Christopher Benfey Sept. 23, 1998
  
• The Order of Things Art and anarchy at midcentury.
  Christopher Benfey July 23, 1998
  
• After the Revolution Aleksandr Rodchenko's campaign against mediocrity, timidity, and stasis.
  Luc Sante July 16, 1998
  
• Bathroom Beauty Pierre Bonnard's voyeuristic obsession.
  Christopher Benfey June 28, 1998
  
• Dungeons and Dragons What escapism looked like back then.
  Christopher Benfey June 10, 1998
  
• Post Camp Soviet art wasn't quite the gulag we thought it was.
  Luc Sante May 29, 1998
  
• Heavenly Rectangles Mark Rothko's floating abstractions of despair.
  Christopher Benfey May 14, 1998
  
• Wandering Jew 
  Christopher Benfey May 6, 1998
  
• No Cigar The creation of Chuck Close, art-world hero.
  Christopher Benfey March 12, 1998
  
• Sex Machines Fernand Léger and his women.
  Christopher Benfey March 1, 1998
  
• East as Eden Five thousand years of Chinese wit and sophistication.
  Christopher Benfey Feb. 19, 1998