Headshots by celebrity photographer George Hurrell are on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
Books That Illustrate Nature with Nature Itself
On exsiccatae, xylotheks, lepidochromes, and other rare books and collections that incorporate actual biological and botanical specimens.
Endnotes: Will the Real Miss Liester Please Stand Up?
A mysterious Klimt portrait goes up for auction at im Kinsky.
Current and coming: Visions of Japan in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Museum displays one of its greatest treasures.
“Life Is Better with Antiques”
A new book takes readers into the eccentrically elegant home of a New Orleans antiques dealer and interior decorator.
Current and coming: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance in a Global Context
The Met explores the artistic movement’s international impact through 160 objects.
Inside Job
A Columbia Museum of Art exhibition explores artistic depictions of interior scenes and the applied and decorative arts in early twentieth-century America.
Endnotes: An Overdue Roll Call
A new partnership uncovers historical documents of Black and Native American Revolutionary soldiers.
Venice on the Gulf Coast
John and Mabel Ringling’s fantasy palazzo in Sarasota is a testament to the romantic power of architecture.
On books: Book of Hours
A new treatise on the early American polymath David Rittenhouse draws attention to his elegant timepieces.