The life and art of Charles White, who battled discrimination and illness to achieve a transcendent vision, is explored in a current traveling exhibition.
Facets and settings: Holiday Jewelry Book Selections
A dazzling collection of stories from international jewelry houses and a longtime dealer and scholar.
The Shock of the Hue
How the surprising, saturated colors in the turn-of-the-century paintings Matisse and others created in the South of France changed the face of Western art.
Curious Objects: Why Thomas Cole’s “Course of Empire” Cycle is as Relevant Today as in the 19th Century
We discuss a watershed in the genre of landscape painting, with timely implications: Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire cycle.
Current and coming: In Detroit: Art between the Wars in Paris
The Detroit Institute of Arts explores the end of cubism in Paris.
The Pre-Raphaelite and the Potter
A current exhibition explores the life and work of an eminent late Victorian artistic couple, Evelyn and William De Morgan.
Current and coming: Manet/Degas at the Met
The exhibit examines impressionism through the lens of a longtime friendship and rivalry.
Curious Objects: A Met Curator Tells the Strange Story of Louis XIV’s Carpets
This week on the podcast we travel back to the seventeenth century, to the glorious court of the Sun King, Louis XIV…
Changing Times, Changing Art
A current exhibition examines American realist art as a mirror on sweeping societal transformations in the early twentieth century.
Current and coming: Hard times, powerful art at the Met
On view is the provocative art of the Great Depression.