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
Wendell Castle and His Influences at R and Company
The work of sculptor and furniture designer Wendell Castle is being shown at New York’s R and Company gallery.
Homage to Iberia
A broad sampling of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s treasures tours the nation.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 1/8/20–1/14/20
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
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.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 1/1/20–1/7/20
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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.