Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left Queens but became a central figure in 20th century art. By Deborah Solomon In her new memoir, “The ...

This weekend, the Peabody Essex Museum opens "Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination," a retrospective of the artist showcasing close to 200 boxes, collages, films and objects from Cornell's life.

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and ...

The title of this extensive survey of Joseph Cornell's work, which ranges from his early collages to his famous "boxes," is drawn from Cornell's own designation for a concept of time indicating the ...

At a gallery in Manhattan in October 1953, Joseph Cornell glimpsed “The Man at the Café” (1914), a dusky collage by Juan Gris, a Spanish cubist painter. Here, in an angular welter of newsprint and ...

In his personal papers, as in his art, Joseph Cornell embraced life's evanescence. Known mainly for his shadow box constructions, Cornell documented his passion for "exquisite surprises"- the poignant ...

UTOPIA PARKWAY: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon. From Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1997, 426 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Artist's lives are seldom exemplary. Instead of ...

The Joseph Cornell Study Center collection measures 196.8 linear feet and dates from 1750 to 1980, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930 to 1972. Documenting the artistic career and personal ...

Hyperlinks and computer code aren’t in Happenstance Theater’s usual toolbox. The idiosyncratic small local ensemble devises whimsical original stage works that typically riff on — and gently clown ...