Folks who know Joseph Cornell's intricate boxes know they're not just meant to be looked at. Playful objects made by a playful artist, they're supposed to be rotated, upended and shaken. Even though ...

Joseph Cornell, Egypte de Mlle. Cleo de Merode: cours elementaire d’histoire naturelle (Miss Cleo de Merode’s Egypt: Elementary Natural History Course), 1940. Courtesy National Gallery of Art “This ...

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 ...

In Joseph Cornell's boxes you meet two kinds of artist, the last of the romantics and a New York avant-gardist, an unlikely combination. Ingenious Cornell (1903-1972) was both at the same time. How ...

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 ...

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 ...

Small collaged card stock token box with lid, one clear plastic capsule with a toy ring and a pen and ink note Size 3.25 x 2.25 x 1.5 in. (8.3 x 5.7 x 3.8 cm.) ...

UTOPIA PARKWAY: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon. From Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1997, 426 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Artist's lives are seldom exemplary. Instead of ...

The whimsical filmmaker recreated the Queens artist's home studio at Gagosian Gallery in Paris, the city Cornell longed for but never visited. Viewing one of Cornell’s boxes is an almost heartbreaking ...