To elaborate on the history of the suffragist movements, the Nantucket Historical Association has assembled a group of objects—paintings, literary paraphernalia, sculptures, and more—from those two successive waves of activism, which helped win the vote first for Blacks, then for women.
Video: Re-creating a Colonial-era Pickle Stand
Michelle Erickson shows how in a production of the Museum of the American Revolution
From Florida: Peak Surrealism
Within the surrealist scene, 1929 was marked by rapprochements as well as quarrels
The Visual Poetry of Abigail Tulis
A former collaborator of architect Peter Pennoyer, Tulis makes work that’s in dialogue with the past “not just artistically, but spiritually and mystically”
Granville Redmond’s happy hillsides at the Crocker
A leading light among the California impressionists in the early twentieth century, Redmond was known for his depictions of lush flowers and bright vistas
Rich Associations in the Paintings of Valeri Larko
If you look past the trappings of the twenty-first century that Larko renders so carefully, a much older subject becomes apparent: the sublime
Homage to Hokusai at the Freer
Although best known for his woodblock prints, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai was never satisfied with that medium, in which another hand, the block cutter’s, was expected to finish the work he himself had begun.
Ways and Means Committee
An initiative by Alice Walton gets art to the places where it’s needed most
Kirchner and color at the Neue Galerie
The first retrospective of the work of German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in sixteen years is on view at the Neue Galerie in New York this fall.
Dark, Difficult Käthe Kollwitz
The word “graphic” is imbued with new meaning in a survey of the German printmaker’s work at the Getty Center










