When he purchased his contemporary Memphis home, collector John Jerit wasn’t sure it would suit his outsider art collection, but over the years it has proved to be the perfect pairing. ⬬
Exhibitions: Green Mountain Magic
Magic realism was a distinctly American twentieth century genre in the sense that it constituted a unique merger of European surrealism of the 1920s and ’30s, with the long tradition of realist painting in the United States. ⬬
Exhibitions: A Room of Their Own
Peek around an elaborate wood screen and into a lush garden. It’s a watercolor by Anna Alma-Tadema, painted when she was nineteen. ⬬
Exhibition: Bottoms up in Cleveland
Be it a garnet-hued Barolo, a honey-colored Sauternes, or an everyday, ruby-red Côtes du Rhône, wine just seems to promise so much, whether that’s simply a nicer afternoon than one expected, or the possibility of love. ⬬
In Conversation: The Future of Vernacular Art in American Museums
We asked five curators at major institutions: How are you installing and considering folk and outsider art in the coming years? Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Elizabeth Smith, Joyce Linde Assistant Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art ⬬
In Conversation: The Future of Vernacular Art in American Museums
We asked five curators at major institutions: How are you installing and considering folk and outsider art in the coming years? High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Katherine Jentleson, Senior curator of American art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art⬬
In Conversation: The Future of Vernacular Art in American Museums
We asked five curators at major institutions: How are you installing and considering folk and outsider art in the coming years? The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing, and Alyce Perry Englund, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts ⬬
Suit Yourself: Armor as fashion at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Evocative doesn’t even begin to describe the latest exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. For the first time in over two hundred years, a set of baroque-era armor is on view to the public alongside Juan van der Hamen y Léon’s portrait of Jean de Croÿ wearing it. ⬬
Jewelry: Strands of Time
From her studio in Philadelphia, Melanie Bilenker creates beautiful portraits capturing the quiet moments of life. ⬬
Cultural Crossings
Americans are growing more fascinated with Aboriginal art, which John and Barbara Wilkerson have been collecting since 1994. ⬬