How Diego Rivera and his peers helped change the course of American art.
Lines of Force at the Palmer
Drawing is the foundation of art. The pencil is art’s midwife, and paper is its cradle.
The Struggle is joined at the Peabody Essex
Jacob Lawrence’s historical narrative series Struggle: From the History of the American People—painted between 1954 and 1956 and depicting scenes from the early decades of the republic—will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum.
On view: the Outsider Art Fair in New York
Check out what caught our eye at the fair
On Books: An Atlas of Geographical Wonders
Anyone who wants to understand the origins of the modern infographic will be thrilled to discover a new compendium from Princeton Architectural Press
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
Curious Objects: Big porcelain and outsider art at Christie’s
Christie’s specialists Cara Zimmerman and Becky MacGuire answer questions in an episode keyed to the auction house’s 2020 Americana Week
Aesthetic Appeal
Collectors extraordinaire Deedee and Barrie Wigmore share their passion for the art and design of the late nineteenth century with a promised gift to the Met.
Rubbish-bound Murals go instead to Museum
Thanks to the Center for Painted Wall Preservation a group of early nineteenth-century New England murals found a new home at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens