A broad sampling of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s treasures tours the nation.
Awards Season Continues: A new prize from the Decorative Arts Trust
The Decorative Arts Trust announced its establishment of a new annual $100,000 award named the Prize for Excellence and Innovation.
Museum Visit: French Provincial
Some of the best art museums in Europe are in small French cities from Normandy to the Riviera and from Brittany to the French Alps.
A devout French dandy visits San Francisco
Born to a prosperous family of milliners in the French port city of Nantes, James Tissot, like his parents, had an eye for fashion and a head for business.
Encounters with Whistler, Waifs, and Kaiser Wilhelm
The painter Mary Rogers Williams, a baker’s daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, may be the only nineteenth-century woman artist whose thoughts and feelings are almost fully known.
A Moon with a View
An itsy-bitsy sphere just outside my window, motionless, tucked into the velvety blackness of space. That is how Michael Collins remembers the earth as seen from lunar orbit.
In Chicago, Photos meet Folk Art
As part of their Photography + series, the Art Institute of Chicago is examining the influence of photography and folk art on American culture in the Depression years by bringing together FSA images and folk artifacts emblematic of those painted for the Index.
Dancing Detectives: A revealing Bruegel show in Detroit
Pieter Bruegel’s Wedding Dance is the subject of a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts that explores recent discoveries about the painting
Curious Objects: “Where the Past Never Gets Old”—Re-presenting History at Colonial Williamsburg
In this episode of Curious Objects, Michael Diaz-Griffith treks to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia to talk with chief curator Ron Hurst about a new exhibition at the DeWitt Wallace Museum of Decorative Arts.
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.