Frank Browning
- Apr 16, 2019
- 1 min
Browning / Notre Dame, France’s Heart on Fire
The words speckled my screen just before sunset: Incendie à Notre Dame, Christophe typed, fresh out of a daily contractor meeting for an...
Frank Browning
- Jul 24, 2018
- 6 min
Sartre, Spinoza ... and Cruising at the Café de Flore
I was 21 and eager to experience the Paris of my intellectual heroes. In some ways, I got more than I asked for. May '69. Hardly a year...
FRANK BROWNING
- May 31, 2018
- 6 min
Paris, May '68: You Say It Was a Revolution?
The pervasive posters, video-docs, street banners and public seminars in France are clear signs that millions want to remember 1968. But...
Frank Browning
- May 8, 2018
- 4 min
Gold: Power, Beauty and Regret
If you’re aiming for Gold (and at some level who isn’t?), go to the Port of Marseille, France’s rough and tough Mediterranean port town. ...
Frank Browning
- Apr 3, 2018
- 4 min
Still Life Transformed
We call it Still Life. Our Roman and Renaissance ancestors used the starker term Nature Morte. Nature Dead. Probably the best known...
Frank Browning
- Dec 7, 2017
- 4 min
Torture, Blood & Baroque Desire
While you’ve likely never heard of him, Nicholò Regnieri was a Flemish painter who flourished in late Renaissance and Baroque Italy....
Frank Browning
- Jun 20, 2017
- 4 min
Art / Banana Feet, Wharf Women & Singing Iron
Thick glistening bananas and vining mango trees pulse through the darkness in Bordeaux, the heart of the world’s finest wine district in...
Frank Browning
- Mar 8, 2017
- 4 min
Robots, Love & Fate In Paris
I am not a robot. Am I? How can I be sure? These questions cut to the core of a mind-altering exhibition this spring at Paris’s Palais de...
Frank Browning & Steve Weissman
- Jan 22, 2017
- 6 min
Little David Peddles Trump’s Big Agenda
David Horowitz, the Trotskyist radical turned far-right entrepreneur, has just published an instant best-seller, Big Agenda: President...
Frank Browning / Photo: Dan Hubig
- Dec 19, 2016
- 5 min
Un-Manning America
Three things men didn’t do when I was in high school: can tomatoes, knit scarves and push baby strollers. Today the only people I know...
Frank Browning
- Dec 15, 2016
- 3 min
Grotto Bulls of Ancient Art
When four lads stumbled across a hole in the ground in 1940 in southwest France, they had no idea how profoundly their discovery would...