Dorothy Moss ’95 was puzzled. As a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Moss was struggling over how to create an exhibition on Sylvia Plath ’55 that would make sense in that ...

Kukil and Moss have been sifting through more than 3,000 items in Smith’s Sylvia Plath collection for journals, self-portraits, book covers and other objects that will help illuminate the writer’s ...

This vintage print of Sylvia Plath was taken in 1959 at her 9 Willow Street apartment in Boston. National Portrait Gallery The narrative of Sylvia Plath’s life that paints her as a tragic figure ...

co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery exhibit “One Life: Sylvia Plath,” which opens Friday. The gallery is touting the exhibit as the first exploration by an art museum of Plath’s ...

While most references in pop culture tend to flatten Plath into a brooding intellectual, the National Portrait Gallery’s current exhibition One Life: Sylvia Plath seeks to present a nuanced view ...

The National Portrait Gallery in London has bought the only surviving portrait of late poet laureate Ted Hughes by his wife and fellow poet, Sylvia Plath. Plath sketched the drawing of Hughes in ...

Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. She recently served as the scholarly consultant for the BBC documentary Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar.

That’s why Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, became inspired to co-organize an exhibition devoted to Plath’s life and work—but ...

can our dreamsever blur the intransigent lines which drawthe shape that shuts us in?— Sylvia Plath, "Tale of a Tub" (1956) The newest book of Sylvia Plath's work showcases not her poetry ...

Carl Rollyson’s refreshingly judicious and often eloquent portrait of Sylvia Plath, the sixth major biography published in the half-century since the poet’s death in 1963 at age 30 ...

Every year, I make a pilgrimage to Sylvia Plath ... a poster of Plath’s The Bell Jar on the wall of my “writing room” (which is painted a dark blue-black, of course). A tattoo of an ...

It is strongest in its blistering portrait of Hughes as the abusive, unfaithful husband who began to manipulate Sylvia Plath’s literary legacy and personal reputation immediately after her ...