Rachel Cohen is the author of 'A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists' (Cape), 'Bernard Berenson' (Yale) and, most recently, ‘Austen Years’ (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Revisiting a meeting of the two Surrealists in Paris in 1939 sheds new light on the movement as a whole
The sculptor is deeply connected to a wider network of artists and thinkers who also get their dues in this large-scale survey
By making unexpected connections and comparisons, this revelatory show allows the painter’s real achievements to become clearer than they have ever been
Rachel Cohen spends some quality time with a series of installations and exhibitions by MacArthur Award-winners set throughout the city
The Met’s display of 14 centuries of work from the longtime artistic centre of Japan gives plenty of pause for thought
After a period of critical neglect the artist is at last in the ascendant, as his great friend James Baldwin always thought he would be
The painter’s once unfairly dismissed late works are full of possibilities he didn’t live long enough to explore
A landmark exhibition puts the painter back where she belongs – at the heart of the Impressionist movement
A new biography of Renoir emphasises the role the painter’s domestic life played in his work
The museum's new medieval and Renaissance galleries put its outstanding collections in the spotlight and invites fresh and unexpected connections
