Mark Polizzotti is publisher and editor-in-chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece
Underlying the Surrealist leader’s preoccupation with dreams and the unconscious was a very practical desire to change the world. Who’s to say he didn’t succeed?
Matisse was already in his 60s when he began to design books – but this new direction would inspire some of his most engaging works
The creator of King Ubu and inventor of pataphysics was deeply attached to the art of the book
