A look at current and upcoming episodes of our podcast
Current and coming: Over the Moon for Blakelock in Iowa
The ethereal landscapes of Ralph Albert Blakelock are once again on view, this time at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa
Curious objects: Discussing Craft and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
A look at current and upcoming episodes of our podcast
Slavery and Suffrage on Nantucket
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.