In an afterword to Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov remembers that the novel, was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is it about boxes that is so fascinating? I was thinking this as I went into Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art to see Pandora’s Box, a show that displays artist Joseph Cornell’s signature ...

In 1953, when Joseph Cornell saw a collage by the Spanish painter Juan Gris, titled “The Man at the Café,” it inspired the most extensive series of the American sculptor’s career. “Birds of a Feather: ...

The study of Robert Lehrman’s Northwest D.C. home is lined not only with books but with boxes. Nestled into the shelves are works by eccentric 20th-century American artist Joseph Cornell, intimate ...

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 ...