Val Castronovo is a free-lance journalist specializing in exhibition and arts-related stories. She
is a former reporter for TIME Magazine, where
she worked for 21 years. A native New Yorker and Vassar grad, she lives in
Manhattan with her husband and their daughter, Olivia.
Articles
Lengthy Layover at the
Frick for Parmigianino Portrait
It’s Really Real!
The art world learns that a Vermeer painting, long suspected to be a fraud, is
the genuine article
Shock of the Old:
Christopher Dresser
About a Boy: Picasso’s
Boy with a Pipe, a Rose period masterpiece, tops the $100 million
mark and becomes the most expensive artwork sold at auction
Up
on the Roof: Stone Houses, Andy
Goldsworthy’s new installation at the Met, takes a commanding
view
CultureWatch: Val Castronovo takes in the Guggenheim show of the sculptor Brancusi , known as a “genius of omission” for his radical simplification of form.
Portraits of Bohemia:
The Jewish Museum brings Modigliani back to New York for a solo exhibition, the first major show of the artist’s work in the city in more than 50 years
Fra Carnevale: Not a household name but central to our understanding of Renaissance painting, a new exhibit at The Met proclaims
Michelangelo's First Painting; a little-known work has its American premiere at the Met
The O’Keeffe show at the Whitney is the first to study, and celebrate, her abstract works
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Starn Brothers Present Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Won’t, and You Don’t Stop
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