Though it’s a distinct handicap when a major retrospective of a great artist is missing one of his best—and certainly best-known—paintings, it says something that the exhibition Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York loses little of its force despite the fact that July 28, 1830: Liberty Leading the People stayed home at the Louvre.
Master of Dramatic Composition
Celebrating the Venetian artist Tintoretto at five hundred
Master of Magnificence
At the Frick, a sumptuous and revelatory exhibition on the seventeenth-century designer Luigi Valadier
“Their wings are my protest”
Exhibitions in Britain and America celebrate the beautiful anachronisms of the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers
Victor Hugo’s storm-swept drawings at the Hammer
Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles shines a light on sixty-four drawings selected from the more than three thousand sheets of illustrations that Hugo left to the world.
“Traveling to see what is around the corner”
Painter, ceramist, couturier, and bon vivant—introducing the prolific Edith Varian Cockcroft
A Stitch in Time
Imagine this: you’ve gotten hold of an antique quilt, perhaps 150 years old. It’s in pristine condition. It has an attractive pattern—a classic wedding ring, say, or log cabin, or even a crazy quilt. It is probably not the sort of object a museum would want, but it preserves a rich history all the same, of its maker, the family that retained it, and the craft itself.
Contemporary art confronts the Gilded Age at the Driehaus
Work by Yinka Shonibare launches a new exhibition series in March
Taking in the scene at the Delaware Antiques Show
We dropped in for opening night at the 55th annual edition of the Delaware Antiques Show.
The American Art Fair Rolls an Eleven
Anyone who’s seen the 1952 comedy film Pat and Mike will recall the line when New York sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) sizes up Katharine Hepburn’s character, Pat Pemberton—a multitalented athlete modeled on Babe Zaharias.










