Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof is a Dutch-born, New York-based journalist reporting on art, history, and literature. He studied early Netherlandish painting and Slavic literature at New York University, worked as an editorial assistant for Film Comment magazine, and has written for Esquire, Film & History, History Today, and History News Network. 

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The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
Caspar David Friedrich Romanticism
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
"Painfully forced" is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald's writing style.
Étienne-Louis Boullée, Cenotaph tomb for Isaac Newton
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written. 
Hungarian Gypsy Girl by Amrita Sher-Gil
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.