Patricia Vigderman: 3 books

“The essays in Vigderman’s collection dwell not on despair, but on the project of translating chaotic experience into art or memory . . . Lyrical and graceful” (Publishers Weekly).   In this accessible collection of essays, Patricia Vigderman attempts to translate some of life’s disordered...

Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories...

A fascinating meditation on art and personality, Patricia Vigdermans exploration of Isabella Stewart Gardners famous Boston museum radiates out from its subject to investigate Gardners legacy of luxury and willfulness. Isabella Gardners high spirits and aesthetic pleasure, her women friends and female...