Jerry’s Map Exhibition Set 2 is currently on view at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago
Two shows highlight the powerful imagery of Gordon Parks
“I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be . . . I had the instinct toward championing the cause”
Shoot the moon: Three exhibitions on lunar photography
For much of human history, people were forced to imagine what the moon was really like. Was it flat like a disk? Made of cheese? Was it inhabited?
Thierry Mugler at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The show paints a compelling portrait of the freewheeling and creative nature of late twentieth-century haute couture, but it’s really about an idea
Charles Radtke Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
It’s all about the details for this Wisconsin cabinetmaker
The Sixth Antique American Indian Art Show in Santa Fe
“The Super Bowl, Wimbledon—whatever you want to compare it to, that’s what this week is for Native American art in Santa Fe.”
Scrimshaw on Nantucket
Nantucket, in cultural memory, will always be the island of whaling. But in spite of Herman Melville’s panegyrics, it was the center of the whaling world for only a brief historical moment.
Take Note: New York’s Merchant’s House Museum
The Merchant’s House in New York City is a federal, state, and city landmark that dates from 1832 and contains an excellent collection of fine and decorative art. ANTIQUES spoke with Margaret Halsey Gardiner, who’s been its director for nearly thirty years.
Celebrating Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
Three New York cultural institutions—the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and the Morgan Library and Museum—as well as the Library of Congress, are putting on summer exhibitions to honor the poet of democracy, empathy, and “the body electric.”
Dada’s and Surrealism’s Poetic Roots at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
Both Dadaism and surrealism were movements started not by visual artists but by poets; it was the book, not the canvas, that was terra firma.