SALEM -- For artist Joseph Cornell, there was no need to think outside the box. Cornell specialized in shadow box creations -- wooden frames with scenes assembled from found objects inside. "You store ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Joseph Cornell had one of the strangest careers in all of modern art. Born in Nyack, N.Y., he never traveled farther afield than New England, and lived quietly for decades in the house in Flushing, ...

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 ...

Appraisal: Shadow Box Attributed to Joseph Cornell, from Anaheim Hour 3. Watch Leigh Keno's appraisal of a shadow box attributed to Joseph Cornell, in Anaheim Hour 3.

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.) ...

Artist Joseph Cornell created works out of framed boxes filled with found objects. His work is on display now at an exhibit called "Navigating the Imagination," hosted by the Smithsonian American Art ...

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 ...