Frank Browning
Apr 16, 20191 min read
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, 20186 min read
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, 20186 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20176 min read
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, 20165 min read
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, 20163 min read
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...