Artist Joseph Cornell created works that were inspired by his interest in the Space Age. Laura Augustin Joseph Cornell, "Americana: Natural Philosophy (What Makes the Weather?)," ca. 1959, masonite, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) measure approximately 24.9 linear feet and date from 1804 to 1986 with the bulk of the material dating ...

It would he hard to find a more painfully private man than Joseph Cornell. The American assemblage artist lived his entire life in Flushing, Queens, with a disabled brother and tyrannical mother.

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, ...

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 ...

As the artist John Baldessari once said, "As soon as you put two things together, you have a story." That line has been rattling around in my head recently, thanks to the Hirshhorn Museum and ...

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.

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 ...

To mark the centenary of the birth of Joseph Cornell (1903-72), Richard L. Feigen and Company has organized a superb To mark the centenary of the birth of Joseph Cornell (1903-72), Richard L. Feigen ...

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 ...

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 ...