“La femme,” Edgar Degas once opined, “en général est laide”: women, in general, are ugly.
A River Runs Through It
A new exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy explores the influence of the Schuylkill River artists
Charles Radtke Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
It’s all about the details for this Wisconsin cabinetmaker
Two Journeys, One Destination
The consummation of an immigrant odyssey, the Vilcek Foundation charts the artistic argosy of Ralston Crawford in the inaugural exhibition at its new home
British watercolors at the Gibbes
Rising up in the midst of the Charleston Historic District, what is today the Gibbes Museum of Art was founded in 1858 and has inhabited a sumptuous beaux-arts monument, inspired by the works of Andrea Palladio, since 1905.
Craftsman Home
The house in California built by the great studio woodworker Sam Maloof is a hymn to the virtues of the made by hand
The Sixth Antique American Indian Art Show in Santa Fe
“The Super Bowl, Wimbledon—whatever you want to compare it to, that’s what this week is for Native American art in Santa Fe.”
Two Gems of Charm City
The Walters and the Baltimore Museum of Art form a powerful cultural tandem
Scrimshaw on Nantucket
Nantucket, in cultural memory, will always be the island of whaling. But in spite of Herman Melville’s panegyrics, it was the center of the whaling world for only a brief historical moment.
Pierre Cardin fashion and furniture at the Brooklyn Museum
In his fashion work, designer Pierre Cardin sought to remake the human body in his sculptural ideal.