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.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 12/18/19–12/24/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
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.
The World on a String
graphy is a subject not widely studied in our schools today. Most Americans would have a hard time identifying even a handful of foreign countries on a map, let alone be able to draw their outlines.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 12/11/19–12/17/19
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Beyond the Loom
Lenore Tawney was a textile artist celebrated for her sculptural weavings.
Sculptor to the Medici, Teacher of Michelangelo
Bertoldo di Giovanni: the student of Donatello and the teacher of Michelangelo, and now the subject of a show at the Frick Collection.
The Old Mistresses of the Dutch Golden Age
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, examines the underdogs of the Dutch Golden Age: its women.










