He’s back! The irrepressible Brazilian artist and landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, dead these twenty-five years, is on stage once again, this time at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx
Up in the Air
The Frick revives the memory of a lost group of frescoes by Tiepolo
Commentary: The market for the art of the Hudson River school is alive and well
Recent articles discussing the American art auctions in May at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in New York expressed concern about the state of the market for Hudson River school paintings.
Town, Gown, and Globe
A place of cultural confluence in Berkeley, California
A classical Richmond furniture exhibition, at long last
Improbable as it may seem, the city of Richmond, Virginia, has never had an exhibition dedicated to its furniture. That is, until now.
On the clock at the Speed
The twenty-seven tall-case clocks on view at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, offer a rare glimpse of material life in the early American West.
Thomas Cole up the Creek
Only a short walk from Thomas Cole’s house and studio in upstate New York winds a stretch of Catskill Creek that the painter would return to depict again and again.
Curious Objects: Object Philosophy 101
In an episode keyed to Art Carpenter’s Wishbone chair, scholar and curator Glenn Adamson shares his thoughts on the similarities and differences between art and design.
Painted Prayers of Thanks at Princeton
Like the literature of magical realism, the lovely painted metal Mexican retablos currently on view at the Princeton University Art Museum cast memory, bonds of affection, calamity, and averted disaster in the intersecting space between modern times and the immutable past.
Chains of Command
If there was a poster boy for January’s Winter Show in New York, it was surely Maxine Helfman’s George Washington, from her Forefathers series offered by Elle Shushan.