The word “graphic” is imbued with new meaning in a survey of the German printmaker’s work at the Getty Center
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 12/04/19–12/10/19
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The Other Woodstock Anniversary
In the early twentieth century, the town of Woodstock, New York, in the lee of the Catskill Mountains, evolved into one of the leading art colonies in the United States.
Pharm to Table
Yale’s American Furniture Study Center moves to a new home in a former Bayer laboratory.
Taghkanic Baskets
A classic example of regional folk craft, Taghkanic baskets have been woven in a small corner of the Hudson River valley since the mid-eighteenth century.
The Artist as Journalist
American artist Winslow Homer is best known for his work in oil and watercolor, but he began his career in the newsroom making images for illustrated periodicals.
Feverish Architectural Fantasies at the Menil Drawing Institute
Jean-Jacques Lequeu’s frustrated architectural ambitions found their outlet in bold, sometimes sexually-charged drawings
Homage to Ruskin at Yale
Ruskin would publish prolifically until his death in 1900, in the fields of art (five volumes of Modern Painters), architecture (The Stones of Venice and The Seven Lamps of Architecture), even a treatise on economics, Unto This Last, from which an encyclopedic exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, celebrating the bicentennial of the critic’s birth this year, takes its name.
An Eliphalet Chapin High Chest, Explained, at the Wadsworth Atheneum
“Every part [is] mathematically related to every other part, and visual complexity accumulates step-by-step.”
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 11/21/19–11/26/19
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